Coast Range Radio
At Coast Range Radio, we interview folks who work to build just communities that provide for people and the natural world. We are particularly interested in the connections between Pacific Northwest forests, social justice, and the climate crisis.
Coast Range Radio is an independent radio show and podcast hosted by Michael Gaskill. Michael is a lifelong rural Oregonian and climate justice organizer.
Coast Range Radio
Latest Episodes
Is the Alaska "Landless Bill" Land Back or Land Grab?! With Wanda Culp and Joshua Wright
Unless you frequent the same activist email listservs I do, you may have no idea that, completely aside from the Trump administration’s assault on public lands, there is a bill quietly making its way through congress that would privatize and cl...
Upending the Conventional Wisdom on the Role of Fire and Old-Growth in the PNW
How did the majestic forests of the Pacific Northwest come to be?That may seem like an esoteric question, but if we want to know how to protect and steward them as we enter the chaotic era of the climate crisis, it’s a question worth as...
Environmentalists Are Losing on Wildfire. Here's How We Win
As I’m recording this in mid-April, we are coming out of the one of the warmest and driest winters on record in the Pacific northwest, and snowpack is at catastrophically low levels.Add in the Trump administration’s intentional sabo...
The Fight To Save Roadless Forests, with Len Montgomery of Environment America
I’m so excited to be back with a new interview after taking a little time off.Unfortunately, there is no shortage of bad news to come back to, but as ever, I am inspired by all the great work being done by activists and organizations to ...
Xerces Society Founder Robert Pyle on Invertebrate Conservation, Resurrection Ecology, and More!
Dr. Robert Michael Pyle is a pioneer and legend in invertebrate conservation research and advocacy, as well as an accomplished author and poet. In 1971, he founded the Xerces Society, which has grown into the most influential invertebrate...