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
Poisoning the Well: Understanding Environmental Resentment in Timber Country, Part 1
My guest today is Patrick Hunnicutt, Assistant Professor of Environmental Administration at the University of Oregon.Patrick is the co author of a yet to be published research project called Poisoning the Well: Process, recognition, and ...
Forest Victory! Plus, Why Does the BLM Keep Lying About Timber Sales?
Oregon forests recently got a big win in court.Earlier this month, a US District Court Judge ruled that the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, had broken the law during the planning of its so-called “Blue and Gold” timber sale, and threw...
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...