Latest Western oregon Podcast Episodes
Fighting for our Drinking Water, with North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection
Coast Range Radio - June 25, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutesWhether you live in a city, a small town, or even if you get your water from a well like I do, one of the biggest threats to drinking water in the Pacific Northwest is industrial logging. (A hugely notable exception is portland, which as my guest will touch on in the interview, does not allow l...
Saving Oregon's Kelp Forests, with Tom Calvanese of Oregon Kelp Alliance
Coast Range Radio - June 11, 2024 13:00 - 36 minutesThe Coast Range Association is a founding member of the brand new Oregon Ocean Alliance, which has formed to more effectively advocate for Oregon’s ocean and coast ecosystems. In a future episode, I’ll be talking with some of the other founding members about our mission and goals and all of tha...
Poor Windy Update: BLM Backs Down After Tree Sit!
Coast Range Radio - May 13, 2024 22:00 - 29 minutesAbout a year and half ago, we did an episode on a Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, timber sale in Southern Oregon called Poor Windy, as part of our Worth More Standing series highlighting some of the biggest threats to mature and old growth forests on public lands. Recently, community activis...
Northwest Forest Plan: Protecting the Siuslaw National Forest
Coast Range Radio - April 22, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutesToday, we’re going to go deep on an incredibly important subject, albeit one with a somewhat less than stirring name if you aren’t already familiar: The northwest forest plan The northwest forest plan sets the overall management strategy for 17 National Forests across a staggering 24 million ac...
Celebrating Two Recent Victories for Oceans and State Forests!
Coast Range Radio - April 09, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutesIt is important to celebrate our victories, and today we get to talk about two of them! The Oregon Board of Forestry (BoF) recently voted to approve its first ever Habitat Conservation Plan on State Forests, and a bill to fully fund and strengthen Oregon’s Marine Reserve Program sailed through ...
The Campaign for Oregon's Estuaries, with Annie Merrill
Coast Range Radio - March 26, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutesWe often think of the land and the sea as separate worlds that have little to do with each other. But that barrier is much more fluid and interconnected than many people realize. We’ve talked on this program before about what folks call the ‘Land-Sea Connection’, and today we’re going to talk ...
The Canopy of Titans! With Author Paul Koberstein
Coast Range Radio - March 11, 2024 21:00 - 44 minutesOn today’s show, Canopy of Titans: the Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest! Canopy of Titans is a new book written by journalists Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate which shines a light on the critical importance of protecting the temperate rainforests of the Paci...
Are we on the Cusp of a Community Forest Revolution?! With Alexander Harris
Coast Range Radio - February 27, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutesWhere I live in the coast range, I am surrounded in all directions by industrial timber plantations for miles in all directions. Now, I have no problem with logging. I think silviculture is a good and noble profession. But it is plain for anyone to see that the short rotation, financialized p...
"The Most Dangerous Dam in Oregon"! Plus, the Williams Community Forest Project
Coast Range Radio - February 12, 2024 22:00 - 29 minutesFor those of us who work to make a positive impact on the world, there is often a default towards focusing on big national and international level issues. Between the rapidly worsening climate crisis, national campaigns to preserve Mature and Old growth forests, decarbonization and electrificat...
Taxing Big Timber to Protect Communities from Wildfire
Coast Range Radio - January 23, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutesI don’t have to tell anyone reading this that here in the west, wildfires are a fact of life. I’m also sure that most folks are already aware that the climate crisis, combined with more and more homes being built in and around forest lands is creating an escalating cycle of devastation in fire p...
State Representative David Gomberg on Marine Reserves, Rural Infrastructure, and Much More!
Coast Range Radio - January 09, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutesThis is our first episode of 2024, and I can’t think of a better guest to start the year off with than State Representative David Gomberg. Representative Gomberg represents House district 10, which encompassess Lincoln County, as well as parts of western Benton and Lane counties, and happens to...
Reflecting on 2023, and What's Ahead for the Coast Range Association
Coast Range Radio - December 12, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutesIt’s dark, it’s cold, and it’s very rainy. We may be a couple weeks from the solstice as of this recording, but for my money, we’ve definitely entered another coast range winter. I love to use this time of year to reflect and take stock, so I figured it was a great time to invite the Coast Ran...
Bonus - Brenna TwoBears on NoDAPL, the Indigenous Just Transition, and More!
Coast Range Radio - December 05, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutesI recently had a great interview with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network, but I couldn’t fit our whole conversation into our last full episode. Brenna came on to talk about IEN’s ongoing fight to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, and how you can take action by submit...
Bonus - Brenna TwoBears on NoDAPL, an Indigenous Just Transition, and More!
Coast Range Radio - December 05, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutesI recently had a great interview with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network, but I couldn’t fit our whole conversation into our last full episode. Brenna came on to talk about IEN’s ongoing fight to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, and how you can take action by submit...
Elliott State Forest DRAMA! Plus, The Ongoing Fight to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
Coast Range Radio - November 28, 2023 23:00 - 36 minutesToday, we have not one, but two amazing guests talking about two important and timely topics: the Dakota Access Pipeline fight, and the recent Elliot State Forest drama. Bob Sallinger joins to walk me through the bombshell that Oregon State University just dropped on the Elliott State forest pr...
Forests Over Profits, part 3 - Can Forests "Own" Themselves?! With John Brush
Coast Range Radio - November 14, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutesThis is part three of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring selected presentations from the Forests Over Profits Conference that the Coast Range Association helped organize this September. I’m so excited for you to hear this talk by John Brush of the Cedar Moon Collective and Tryon Life Fa...
Forests Over Profits, part 1 - Chuck Willer
Coast Range Radio - October 24, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutesThis episode is part two of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring excerpts from our Forests Over Profits conference and protests this past September. If you’re not familiar with this series, here’s what you need to know: This September, the Coast Range Association, in partnership with man...
Forests Over Profits, part 2 - Wall St vs Forests and Communities, with Chuck Willer
Coast Range Radio - October 24, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutesThis episode is part two of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring excerpts from our Forests Over Profits conference and protests this past September. If you’re not familiar with this series, here’s what you need to know: This September, the Coast Range Association, in partnership with man...
Forests Over Profits Bonus Pod: Indigenous Environmental Network Panel!
Coast Range Radio - October 18, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourHopefully, you’ve already heard our last two episodes on the Who Will Own The Forest conference, or maybe you attended the Forests Over Profits protest or counter-conference that We helped organize in response. If not, I would highly encourage you to go back and listen to the episode I did a fe...
Forests Over Profits, part 1 - Indigenous Leadership
Coast Range Radio - October 09, 2023 21:00 - 29 minutesThis September, The Coast Range Association, along with partners like 350pdx, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network, the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, and many more, organized a major protest and counter conference in response to the Who Will Own The Forest tim...
Forests Over Profits, part 1 - Following Indigenous Leadership
Coast Range Radio - October 09, 2023 21:00 - 29 minutesThis September, The Coast Range Association, along with partners like 350pdx, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network, the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, and many more, organized a major protest and counter conference in response to the Who Will Own The Forest tim...
"Who Will Own The Forest?" With Brenna Bell
Coast Range Radio - September 12, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutesWe talk a lot on this show about the devastation wrought on our environment and communities by invasive capitalism, and today we get to talk about something tangible we can do to fight back! On September 26-28, Wall Street investors will join timber corporations, big oil, carbon offset & biomas...
Fighting the "Biomass Delusion" with Rita Frost and Peter Riggs
Coast Range Radio - August 29, 2023 14:00 - 36 minutesOne of the most important questions in the drive to rapidly decarbonize our society is how to replace fossil fuel generated electricity with clean, renewable sources And one of the key questions there is, what counts as clean and renewable? Today’s episode is all about biomass energy, which is...
North Coast Land Conservancy's Katie Voelke on Oregon's Land-Sea Connection, reckoning with ownership of stolen lands, and more!
Coast Range Radio - August 14, 2023 21:00 - 29 minutesNorth Coast Land Conservancy, or NCLC, has been working to conserve land along the northern Oregon coast and coast range for nearly 40 years, and Katie Voelke has been its Executive Director since 2008. In this interview, she discusses NCLC's conservation philosophy, Oregon's land-sea connectio...
Representative Mark Gamba on Oregon's 2023 Legislative Session - Part Two
Coast Range Radio - July 25, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutesThis episode is part two of my conversation with State Representative Mark Gamba, breaking down the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2023 legislative session Mark Gamba represents house district 41, which encompasses Milwaukie, Oak Grove, and parts of Southeast Portland. I knew I could trust...
Representative Mark Gamba is NOT Happy About Oregon's 2023 Legislative Session - Part One
Coast Range Radio - July 10, 2023 22:00 - 28 minutesAs the dust settles on another chaotic legislative session, I wanted to look back, revisit some of the bills we dug into on previous episodes, and explore how we can keep pressure on our legislators between sessions. I couldn’t think of a better person to guide us through the good, the bad, and...
(Updated) "Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire", with Trip Jennings
Coast Range Radio - June 26, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutesAs we head into fire season, I wanted to revisit an episode from last year about an amazing documentary film called Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire. After a nationwide theatrical release and over a dozen awards, Elemental has just come out on streaming on Amazon, Apple TV, Google play, and Vimeo....
(Updates!) "Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire", with Oregon Filmaker Trip Jennings
Coast Range Radio - June 26, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutesAs we head into fire season, I wanted to revisit an episode from last year about an amazing documentary film called Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire. After a nationwide theatrical release and over a dozen awards, Elemental has just come out on streaming on Amazon, Apple TV, Google play, and Vimeo....
Only YOU Can Prevent Logging Old Growth on Federal Lands! Take Action By June 20th
Coast Range Radio - June 13, 2023 13:00 - 28 minutesAs regular listeners may know, the Coast Range Association is a member of the Forest Climate Coalition, which is pushing for strong and durable protections of mature and old growth forests on our federal lands. As you probably also know, mature and old growth forests are absolute superstars f...
Is the Forest Service "Falsifying the Scientific Record" on Wildfires? With Chad Hanson, PhD
Coast Range Radio - May 22, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutesWildfires are a fact of life in the American west. They have played a major role in our western ecosystems for millenia. But as the climate crisis deepens, and more people move into wildfire country, fires loom larger and larger in the public consciousness. Wildfires are reshaping everything ...
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