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Providing a unique perspective on environmental news, issues and science to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for positive environmental action.

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Mike interviewed Chris Bachman. Chris has worked promoting the restoration of wildlife and holistic native ecosystems as the paramount mission of public land management for the last decade.  His work promotes prioritizing management for wildlife on our public lands, particularly wild roadless areas; and promotes conservation as the priority management policy for fish and wildlife. […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on evaporation from climate change, how coyotes are responding to humans, cats as a tool for teaching physics,  Southern Orca populations and a higher chum salmon return, how gophers and fungi helped restore forests after Mt. St. Helens erupted, and a new way of measuring PFAS that promises to be […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on PFAS in products from recycled electronics, gentrification of countries by people from richer countries, questions about how the cleanup of PFAS is going in the West Plains of Spokane and Commissioner French’s role, how peat moss harvest is damaging and can be replaced by biochar, other biochar projects, and […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on the changing atmospheric rivers, the challenges of recycling plate glass, the increasing gentrification of cities by Americans across the world, Indigenous input into the transition to “clean” or “green” energy, more fast growing wildfires,  the legacy of mining waste, and a spooky story about whip-poor-wills.  We did a two […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on trade between Norse and Indigenous Americans much earlier than previously known, how Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens may have interacted,  how old growth in the Pacific Northwest is key to carbon storage, a new partnership for the Walla Walla River between Oregon and Washington, a chinook salmon take in Alaska […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on  Indigenous people helping wildlife,  using rats for search and rescue, wildlife populations disappearing at a record rate, making biochar from iron chloride soaked wood chips destroys PFAS, protecting old growth in Washington, conspiracy theories regarding recent hurricanes, and how fire retardant chemicals are found in household items with  black […] […]
Laura and Mike interviewed our guest, Garth Davis of the Spokane Conservation Direct about Ponderosa Pine forests. Garth described Ponderosa pine, including the makeup of the native ponderosa pine forest and its fire cycle. He discussed potential impacts from the pine bark beetle, drought and non-native plants.  He described what the Conservation District offers landowners, […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on how climate science is viewed,  tulips, the Farm Bill and SNAP, hurricane Helene,  urban canopy funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, PFAS products being banned in Minnesota, and storing carbon in the ground, with trees in wet soils.  We did three station ID’s starting at 12:00 PM. […]
Laura and Mike did stories on metal exposure from environmental pollution is increasing heart disease, microplastics coming from packaging and entering humans, as well as coral, pigs are the pickiest eaters among livestock, impacts of meat diets, wolves again killed in Washington because of livestock predation, whales making unusual sounds in the deepest ocean trench, […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on bugs once meant to be worn as living jewelry, climate impacts from jet contrails, climate friendly wheat flower, PFAS in pesticides, a Biden administration attempt to remove protections for wolves, and the upcoming lunar eclipse during the full moon. We did three station ID’s. […]