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 Oregon’s forests, social justice, and the climate crisis.
Coast Range Radio is a radio show and podcast from the nonprofit conservation organization, the Coast Range Association. Located in Western Oregon, the Coast Range Association works to build just and sustainable communities that provide for people and the natural world. Our work focuses on the connections between Oregon’s forests, communities, and the climate crisis.
Episodes
106 episodes
Fighting Back Against Trump's Clearcut Agenda
On March first, the president issued two executive orders designed to dramatically increase commercial logging on our public lands. These executive orders are bad news on their own, but the situation is actually even more dire.Thes...
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Is The Forest Service Using The Threat Of Wildfire To Increase Logging??
The Forest Service is using the threat of wildfires to justify a drastic expansion of commercial logging on our public lands. That is the contention in an investigative reporting series from Nathan Gilles at Columbia Insight. ...
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Now is the Time to Take Action on the Northwest Forest Plan, with Grace Brahler (NWFP series, part 3)
This episode is part three of our deep dive into the Forest Service’s proposal to amend the Northwest Forest Plan, which covers 24 million acres over 17 nation forests spread across Oregon, Washington, and Northern California. As I'...
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How Trump's DEI Witchunts Impact the Environmental Movement, and How We Can Resist
We are going to have a couple banger episodes on the Northwest Forest Plan in the coming weeks, but I’m recording this on February 24th, just over one month since Trump’s second term began, and I think we need to step back and take stock for a ...
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Labor Exploitation in Forestry and the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP Series, Part 2)
This is part two of our series on the Forest Service’s major proposed changes to the Northwest Forest Plan. As most of our listeners know, the 30 year old Northwest Forest Plan provides critical protections to over 24 million acres...
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Tribal Sovereignty & The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP series, Part 1)
The Northwest Forest Plan is one of the primary reasons that we have any forest left in the Northwest. Without it, and other protections that are now also at risk because of the Trump administration, our public lands would look no differe...
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NWFP Series Update & Wildfire Myths vs Facts Revisited
Historic LA wildfires are still smoldering, the Oregon legislature is back in session, a massively controversial plan to drastically amend the northwest forest plan governing management policies on over 20 million acres of our most precious for...
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Why Oregon Needs an Environmental Rights Amendment
This is our first episode of 2025, and while we brace for the tidal wave of insanity coming our way on the federal level, we are also preparing for Oregon’s biennial legislative session.If you don’t know, Oregon only has full legislativ...
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The Fallacy of "Chainsaw Medicine" for Wildfire, with George Wuerthner, Part 2
Today’s show is the second part of a recent talk by conservationist and author, George Wuerthner, on the failures and fallacies of some of the ingrained beliefs around wildfires and wildfire suppression.George Wuerthner is a well-known ...
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The Fallacy of "Chainsaw Medicine" for Wildfire, with George Wuerthner - Part 1
Our last episode was a great discussion with a Forest Service scientist and a forest ecologist with the Nature Conservancy about the effects of various fire treatments on subsequent fire behavior. While I appreciated their perspective and...
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Treating Fire with Fire (and Logging??): A Surprisingly Interesting Scientific Review of Fire Treatments!
Like it or not, fire politics affects every aspect of public forest policy and the rural landscape, and that is not changing anytime soon.But is science or politics guiding the policy? Are management decisions being made with fore...
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Preparing for the Dark Days Ahead
As we all collectively live through the unfolding trauma of the 2024 election results, I am going to share a conversation I had yesterday with two of my colleagues in the climate justice world that I found really helpful in starting to process ...
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State of the Climate Emergency, with Dr. Jillian Gregg
“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisi...
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Exposing Oregon's Mega-Dairies, with Oregon Rural Action & Food and Water Watch
Oregon Rural Action and Food and Water Watch recently conducted a rare flyover of Threemile Canyon Farms, one of Oregon’s most notorious factory cattle farms, also known by the simultaneously anodyne and horrifying technical name: confined anim...
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Water Rights and Changing Oregon's Water Law, with Christopher Hall of the Water League
Freshwater, i.e. non-salinated water, is arguably the most precious resource on earth, and in Oregon, by law, all water belongs to the public. However, if you examine who actually controls water usage in Oregon, you might come away with a...
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Forest Under Siege, with Author Rand Schenk - Part 2
Today’s episode is part two of my interview with Rand Schenk, author of a great new book on history of the Forest Service, its founder, Gifford Pinchot, and over 100 years of forest management and mismanagement in the Pacific Northwest....
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Forest Under Siege, with Author Rand Schenk - Part 1
Today’s episode is part one of a two part interview with Rand Schenk, author of a fascinating and timely new history of the Forest Service, its founder, Gifford Pinchot, and over 100 years of forest management and mismanagement in the Pacific N...
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Fighting for our Drinking Water, with North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection
Whether 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...
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Saving Oregon's Kelp Forests, with Tom Calvanese of Oregon Kelp Alliance
The 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 fo...
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Poor Windy Update: BLM Backs Down After Tree Sit!
About 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 h...
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Northwest Forest Plan: Protecting the Siuslaw National Forest
Today, 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 planThe northwest forest plan sets the overall management strategy...
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Celebrating Two Recent Victories for Oceans and State Forests!
It 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 ...
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The Campaign for Oregon's Estuaries, with Annie Merrill
We 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...
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The Canopy of Titans! With Author Paul Koberstein
On 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 A...
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Are we on the Cusp of a Community Forest Revolution?! With Alexander Harris
Where 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...
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