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
95 episodes
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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"The Most Dangerous Dam in Oregon"! Plus, the Williams Community Forest Project
For those of us who work to make a positive impact on the world, there is often a default towards focusing on big national and international level issues.Between the rapidly worsening climate crisis, national campaigns to preserve Matur...
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Taxing Big Timber to Protect Communities from Wildfire
I don’t have to tell anyone reading this that here in the west, wildfires are a fact of life. I’m also sure that most folks are already aware that the climate crisis, combined with more and more homes being built in and around forest lands is c...
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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State Representative David Gomberg on Marine Reserves, Rural Infrastructure, and Much More!
This is our first episode of 2024, and I can’t think of a better guest to start the year off with than State Representative David Gomberg.Representative Gomberg represents House district 10, which encompassess Lincoln County, as well as...
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Reflecting on 2023, and What's Ahead for the Coast Range Association
It’s dark, it’s cold, and it’s very rainy. We may be a couple weeks from the solstice as of this recording, but for my money, we’ve definitely entered another coast range winter.I love to use this time of year to reflect and take ...
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Bonus - Brenna TwoBears on NoDAPL, an Indigenous Just Transition, and More!
I recently had a great interview with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network, but I couldn’t fit our whole conversation into our last full episode. Brenna came on to talk about IEN’s ongoing fight to shut down the Dak...
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Elliott State Forest DRAMA! Plus, The Ongoing Fight to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
Today, we have not one, but two amazing guests talking about two important and timely topics: the Dakota Access Pipeline fight, and the recent Elliot State Forest drama.Bob Sallinger joins to walk me through the bombshell that Oregon St...
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Forests Over Profits, part 3 - Can Forests "Own" Themselves?! With John Brush
This is part three of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring selected presentations from the Forests Over Profits Conference that the Coast Range Association helped organize this September.<...
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Episode 68
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Forests Over Profits, part 2 - Wall St vs Forests and Communities, with Chuck Willer
This episode is part two of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring excerpts from our Forests Over Profits conference and protests this past September. If you’re not familiar with this series, here’s what you need to know:This ...
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Episode 67
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Forests Over Profits Bonus Pod: Indigenous Environmental Network Panel!
Hopefully, you’ve already heard our last two episodes on the Who Will Own The Forest conference, or maybe you attended the Forests Ov...
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Forests Over Profits, part 1 - Following Indigenous Leadership
This September, The Coast Range Association, along with partners like 350pdx, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network, the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, and many more, organized a major protest and counter confe...
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