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 • 133 episodes
Coast Range Radio
Latest Episodes
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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Eco-Fascism, Public Lands Attacks, and the Power of Narratives, with Professor Sarah Wald
My guest today is University of Oregon professor and longtime activist, Sarah Wald. Sarah is the author of multiple books, and as you’ll hear today, a profound thinker on a wide variety of issues concerning the conservation and environmen...
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