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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 134 episodes
Coast Range Radio
Latest Episodes
Conservation Confidential: Mitch Friedman's "Wild Path to More Effective Activism"
Is the conservation movement being as effective as we need to be? This is a moment in time when so much is on the line, and we need to act not just boldly and quickly, but wisely and strategically.To discuss all of this and ...
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Why is the Forest Service Trying to Log Walla Walla's Drinking Watershed??
Should we be logging our drinking watersheds to protect them? That’s the question for residents of Walla Walla Washington, whose pristine drinking water comes off of National Forest land.The Forest Service is planning to a major an...
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Newport Crushes ICE Facility! (at least for now), With Mayor Jan Kaplan
By now, many, if not most of you have heard that ICE has been secretly planning to build some kind of jail or detention facility in Newport here on the Oregon Coast.The community pushback has been immediate, fierce, inspiring, and seemin...
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Trump's EPA Sabotage, Is Oregon's Legislature Failing Us, and more, with Britney Van Citters of OLCV
My guest today is Britney Van Citters, Political and Organizing Director at the Oregon League of Conservation Voters.Britney joins to discuss how the Environmental Protection Agency is being refashioned into the Environmental Destructio...
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Free To Grow - Aerial Herbicide Spraying in Industrial Timberlands, With Filmmaker Jesse Andrew Clark
I’m joined today by filmmaker Jesse Andrew Clark, to talk about his recent documentary, “Free to Grow”.Free to Grow uses deeply personal first person storytelling to highlight the harms of herbicide spraying on industrial timberlands in ...
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Episode 120
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