Coast Range Radio
Coast Range Association
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.
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06/13/23 • 28 min
As regular listeners may know, the Coast Range Association is a member of the Forest Climate Coalition, which is pushing for strong and durable protections of mature and old growth forests on our federal lands.
As you probably also know, mature and old growth forests are absolute superstars for preserving biodiversity and sequestering carbon. Both of those ecosystem services are desperately needed in the face of the twin crises of climate chaos and ongoing mass species extinction.
As an added bonus, they generously offer these services free of charge, and give us cold clean drinking water to boot! What’s not to love??
Well, the timber industry has long viewed our public lands as an extension of their own fiefdoms, and many of our public lands managers remain fully bought into an outdated and destructive model of "forest management" that prioritizes plantation style tree stands and harvest quotas above all other values.
And that’s where we come in!
After years of pressure from the conservation community and in the face of mountains of scientific research, the Biden administration issued an executive order on earth day on 2022(*) aimed at inventorying and protecting mature and old growth trees and forests on federal lands.
This could, and I am underlining could with a giant metaphorical sharpie here, be an absolute game changer, and everyone listening should be incredibly excited about the potential of that executive order.
Buuut - the devil is in the details, and the only way to get from Biden’s well meaning but vague executive order to actual lasting protections for our most important forests is massive public pressure and engagement towards the federal agencies tasked with implementing that order.
Enjoy the show, get inspired, and take action at https://coastrange.org/blmaction/
Show Notes:
Coast Range Association BLM Comment Page: https://coastrange.org/blmaction/
Climate-Forests Action Page (for both the Forest Service and the BLM: https://www.climate-forests.org/take-action
CRR #45- “Fighting for Mature and Growth With Lauren Anderson”: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1046044/11295389
White House fact sheet on President Biden's Executive Order on Forests: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/22/fact-sheet-president-biden-signs-executive-order-to-strengthen-americas-forests-boost-wildfire-resilience-and-combat-global-deforestation/
(*) Note: I incorrectly stated the year of the executive order in the episode, sorry!
10/17/24 • 39 min
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 animal feeding operation, or CAFO, in Morrow County.
In conjunction with that, both organizations have released detailed, interactive maps highlighting the extent of factory farms and associated pollution in Oregon. These maps, and the accompanying reports, show that factory farms are expanding in Oregon, even as the public awareness of the devastating impacts grow.
I’m joined today by Kaleb Ley from Oregon Rural and Aimee Travis-Stone with Food and Water Watch to learn about their efforts to confront and expose factory farms.
We covered a lot more than we could fit into 30 minutes, so if you want to listen to the entire interview, or any of our episodes, you can find Coast Range Radio on any podcast app or at coastrange.org.
Research Links/Show Notes:
Oregon Rural Action Network: https://www.oregonrural.org/
ORA Pollution Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1ukX5PtNPEJOnN6UwiM6mUmilxRV95Sc&ll=45.839986808522895%2C-119.6917593922625&z=9
FWW Oregon Mega-dairy fact sheet (2022): https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/FSW_2205_ORMega-Dairies.pdf
FWW Oregon Factory Farm Fact Sheet: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FSW_0924_FFMap_OR.pdf
FWW Ineractive FF National Map: https://foodandwater.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/filtergallery/index.html?appid=571800658574445b9295f1aa8817e8aa
Event page for Food and Water Watch webinar, Oct 24th, 6:30-7:30: Mobilize Event Page
Forests Over Profits, part 2 - Wall St vs Forests and Communities, with Chuck Willer
Coast Range Radio
10/24/23 • 29 min
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 September, the Coast Range Association, in partnership with many other amazing organizations, organized a series of protests and a day long Forests Over Profits conference in response to a corporate timberland investment conference called, and this is their title, “Who Will Own the Forest”.
Who Will Own The Forest brings together some of the world’s biggest climate polluters, corporate clear-cutters, finance giants, and false climate solutions peddlers, to network and scheme on how to extract maximum short-term returns from while devastating our communities and the climate.
If you want to learn more about the Who Will Own The Forest conference, I would highly encourage you to go back and listen to the episode I did a few weeks back called, “Who Will Own the Forest, with Brenna Bell”, which you can find on the Coast Range Radio podcast feed.
You can also learn more at forestsoverprofits.org.
Ok, back to this episode. Today, we’ll hear from Coast Range Association executive Director Chuck Willer. Chuck spoke about the groundbreaking work Coast Range Association has done highlighting the devastating role that wall street style capitalism has played in northwest forests, his Green New Deal for Northwest Forests proposal, and new directions his research is taking him.
You can learn more about everything discussed here today, and a lot more, at coastrange.org.
Research Links/Show Notes:
Coast Range Association: https://coastrange.org/
- Green New Deal for NW Forests: https://coastrange.org/gnd-proposal/
- Wealth, Income, and Rural Communities: https://coastrange.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Wealth-Income-and-Rural-Communities-sm.pdf
Forests Over Profits:
Worth More Standing: The Poor Windy Timber Sale with George Sexton & Sangye Ince Johannsen
Coast Range Radio
11/21/22 • 37 min
Today’s episode is part of an ongoing semi- monthly series i’m putting together on Threatened Mature and Old Growth Forest in the united states. Mature and oldgrowth forest are vital resources for carbon sequestration, biodiversity resilience, watershed protection, air purification, and so much more.
some studies show that old growth counts for as little as seven percent of our remaining forestlands. Yet mature and old growth forests, which by definition take generations to regenerate, are being logged right now.
Literally, if you’re listening to this during daylight hours, these heroes of our world are on the chopping block. And it’s not just about the trees, it’s about the entire ecosystems that they anchor.
That’s why the Coast Range Association is proud to be a part of the Climate Forests campaign. Over the next few months, every couple episodes or so, I’ll be profiling a different threatened forest and some of the organizations working to protect them.
These episodes are stand alone, but I suggest checking out episode 45 with Lauren Anderson to get a good overview of the Climate Forests campaign. You can find that, and all episodes of Coast Range Radio, wherever you get your podcasts or at Coast Range dot org.
Speaking of our website, quick note: Most of the forests I’ll be profiling are on public land, but private timberland reform is an absolutely critical piece of the puzzle as well, and I’d encourage anyone listening to go to coast range dot org and check out our Green New Deal for Industrial Forests Proposal.
Today, I’m bringing you excerpts from two interviews I did looking at Forest on Bureau of Land Management land threatened by a pair of timber sales called ‘Poor Windy” and Evans creek
I spoke with Sangye Ince-Johannsen, staff attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center, or WELC, and George Sexton, conservation director for the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, also known as KS Wild.
I really enjoyed my conversations with George and Sangye, and there was a lot I couldn’t fit into the radio episode, so I’ll be releasing bonus episodes of the separate conversations into the podcast feed over the next week or so. Let me know what you think of the format!
If you like what we do, please consider becoming a monthly donor to the coast range association, at https://coastrange.networkforgood.com/projects/172942-support-coast-range-association.
Whatever the amount, your support goes a long way with a small but mighty organization like CRA!
Research Links/Show Notes:
Worth more standing report: https://www.climate-forests.org/worth-more-standing
Poor Windy: https://www.climate-forests.org/post/medford-district-bureau-of-land-management-oregon-poor-windy-project
10/24/22 • 29 min
Ballots are out for the 2022 general election, and it is no exaggeration to say that this is the most consequential election for Oregonians in years if not decades.
Three out of six of Oregon’s seats for the US house of representatives are considered tossups where either the Democrat or Republican could win, and the race for Governor is anyone’s game. To put that into perspective, Republicans haven’t held the Governor’s seat since 1986, and our federal delegation to the US House could swing from a 4-1 Democratic majority to a 4-2 Republican majority.
We at the Coast Range Association don’t make candidate endorsements, but I want to help listeners understand the choices we have and the stakes of this election.
Whether we are looking at climate action, forest management, environmental and wildlife protections, women’s rights to control their bodies, investments in our rural communities, or any other issues you care about, the choices we make in this election will have real, tangible impacts.
There is a lot of great reporting and trustworthy organizations out there to help you understand your choices, and though we’ll mainly be talking about the governor’s race today, our local elections are deeply impactful to our lives as well.
However you vote, your choice really matters. That’s true with every election, buy more so this year than in a long time here in Oregon.
So with that in mind, I reached out to Hillary Borrud from The Oregonian to learn more about the Governor’s race, and then I spoke with Sidra Pierson from the Rural Organizing Project about their non-partisan voter guide.
I hope you enjoy the show, and if you know folks that don’t plan to vote or are undecided about who to vote for, talk with them!
As always, I love hearing feedback and show ideas. My email is [email protected].
Official State Voter Pamphlet: https://oregonvotes.gov/voters-guide/english/votersguide.html
Hillary Borrud Articles: https://www.oregonlive.com/staff/hborrud/posts.html
Governor Candidates on Climate Action: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/09/16/oregon-governor-race-candidates-elections-2022-climate-change-crisis/
Rural Organizing Project STAND Election Guide: https://rop.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-STAND-election-guide-English.pdf
Republican Money in Statehouse Races: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/10/republicans-pour-astounding-money-into-races-for-oregon-legislature-hoping-to-flip-state-senate-to-gop-for-1st-time-in-20-years.html
Measure 113: https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_113,_Exclusion_from_Re-election_for_Legislative_Absenteeism_Initiative_(2022)
VoteSmart- Non-partisan website showing candidate funding
Joe Seamons on Northwest Folk Music and Allyship
Coast Range Radio
06/27/22 • 29 min
Joe Seamons is a musician and educator based in the Pacific Northwest and dedicated to helping people connect with their heritage through music and storytelling.
Born and raised in Northwestern Oregon, Joe has made a living interpreting the songs and stories of the local sawmill, logging, and fishing ballads composed by elder working people and folklorists. Many of these songs are included on the 2016 album, Timberbound, In the same vein, Joe directed and served as executive producer for a Smithsonian Folkways album entitled, "Roll, Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs."
As director of The Rhapsody Project, he works with youth in Seattle to explore the influence of regional and personal history through the lens of American blues and folk songs. He also serves as board chair of the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center.
This was a fun conversation, and gave me a lot to think about. I hope you enjoy it, and check out Joe's music at the links below!
Links to Joe's projects:
https://www.joebanjo.net/
https://www.therhapsodyproject.org/home
https://www.maxvilleheritage.org/our-story
I'd love to hear from you! Send shows ideas and feedback to [email protected], and please rate and review the show!
Exploring Oregon's Marine Reserves, Part Three - Otter Rock, Cape Perpetua, and Redfish Rocks
Coast Range Radio
08/22/22 • 29 min
This is part three of our series celebrating 10 years of Oregon’s Marine Reserve Program. For those who aren’t familiar, a Marine Reserve is an area within coastal waters dedicated to scientific research and conservation.
Think of it as a combination of an underwater State Park, a wildlife preserve, and a living laboratory!
Here in Oregon, we have five designated Marine reserves. From North to South, they are located offshore of Cape Falcon, Cascade Head, Otter Rock, Cape Perpetua, and way down South near Port Orford, Redfish Rocks.
In part one, we got a great high level overview of Oregon's Marine Reserve System with former Marine Reserve Program Leader, Cristin Don.
In part two, we heard from Nadia Gardner with Cape Falcon on the North Coast, and Duncan Berry with Cascade Head near Lincoln City.
You can find those episodes, along with all of our shows, at coast range dot ORG.
We’re also on all the podcast apps at Coast Range Radio, and we’d be grateful if you would subscribe to the show, and leave a rating and review. If you’re listening on your community radio station, please make sure to support them!
Ok, back to today’s episode! For part three of our Marine Reserve series, we’ll hear from folks representing community groups supporting Otter Rock (Roy Anderson), Cape Perpetua (Katy Bear Nalven), and Redfish Rocks (Tom Calvanese).
If these episodes inspire you to get involved with any of the community groups, or learn more about the science and research happening at the reserves go to omrp.org for more information and web links.
If you have feedback or suggestions for future shows and guests, my email is [email protected].
Show notes:
Oregon Marine Reserve Partnership: https://omrp.org/
Friends of Otter Rock Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofOtterRockMR/
Cape Perpetua Collaborative: https://capeperpetuacollaborative.org/
Redfish Rocks Community Team: http://www.redfishrocks.org/
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Marine Reserve Site: https://oregonmarinereserves.com/
Land Reform and the Green New Deal, Part One - Levi Van Sant
Coast Range Radio
07/26/21 • 29 min
In part one, Andrew interviews Levi Van Sant (@LeviVanSant), an Assistant Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax County Virginia whose work focuses on environmental (in)justice, particularly issues surrounding food, agriculture, and land use.
Levi wrote a formative piece in Dissent on Land Reform and the Green New Deal that influenced the Coast Range Association’s recent Climate & Oregon’s Industrial Forests: A Green New Proposal. Andrew and Levi discuss agricultural land transitions, the history of the First National Conference for Land Reform and the unifying opportunities that could come from including rural justice and land ownership solutions in the just transition mandate of the Green New Deal.
Resource Links:
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/land-reform-and-the-green-new-deal
https://agriculture.auburn.edu/research/aers/alabama-timberland/
https://coastrange.org/challenging-wall-street-forestry/ownership/
Climate & Oregon's Industrial Forests - Chuck Willer
Coast Range Radio
06/24/21 • 29 min
Chuck Willer, Executive Director of the Coast Range Association, and Andrew discuss the release of the Coast Range Association's recent report, Climate & Oregon's Industrial Forests - A Green New Deal Proposal.
They highlight the need for Western Oregon's private industrial forests to store large amounts of carbon. The need for this important natural climate solution is put into context by analyzing industrial forest ownership by Wall Street investment firms and the economic hardships faced by rural Oregonians. Issues like Wall Street ownership and the economic disparities in rural Oregon are central to the call for a Just Transition in the Green New Deal.
They then discuss voluntary land reform with a transition of industrial forests to democratically managed cooperative, municipal and tribal forest ownership models. They end with discussing how a land ownership and justice analysis of forest issues has the potential to bridge the rural/urban divide, offering solutions that build carbon in forests while improving rural wellbeing.
https://coastrange.org/gnd-proposal/
Preparing for the Dark Days Ahead
Coast Range Radio
11/11/24 • 47 min
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 what this election could mean for climate justice and our movement, and how to engage in these early stages.
I’m joined today by Brenna Bell from 350pdx and Forest Climate Alliance Organizer Alex Budd.
And quick disclaimer, this conversation does not necessarily represent the views of our respective organizations.
If you find this show helpful, or unhelpful, or if you just want to let me know what’s on your mind, please email me anytime at [email protected].
And please consider sharing or recommending this show to other folks in your circles. Coast Range Radio is on all podcasts, on community radio stations throughout Oregon, and at coastrange.org.
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How many episodes does Coast Range Radio have?
Coast Range Radio currently has 98 episodes available.
What topics does Coast Range Radio cover?
The podcast is about Crisis, Society & Culture, Interview, Climate Change, Nature, Podcasts, Science and Oregon.
What is the most popular episode on Coast Range Radio?
The episode title 'Worth More Standing: The Poor Windy Timber Sale with George Sexton & Sangye Ince Johannsen' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Coast Range Radio?
The average episode length on Coast Range Radio is 31 minutes.
How often are episodes of Coast Range Radio released?
Episodes of Coast Range Radio are typically released every 14 days, 15 hours.
When was the first episode of Coast Range Radio?
The first episode of Coast Range Radio was released on Apr 27, 2020.
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