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A weekly conversation about our place on the planet. Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein talks with local, regional and national experts, activists and policy makers about climate change, food policy, land use, salmon restoration, forest management and all the other things that matter in our environment.

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EARTHQUAKE TIME BOMBS

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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No one can predict when the next earthquake will strike. But according to Bob Yeats, a retired geology professor at Oregon State University, a knowledge of geology can help us predict where. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver. Like the recent seismi... Read more

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: Mountains & the Environmental Movement

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Mountains have played a major role in the American psyche and the history of our country. Once perceived as places of evil or barriers to progress, the conquest of their peaks became a key component of westward expansion in the 19th century. Our fascination with mountain... Read more

ONCE THEY WERE HATS: In Search of the Mighty Beaver

Airs at: Mon, 04/18/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the ... Read more

TESOR0-SAVAGE vs. THE THIN GREEN LINE

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Tesoro-Savage wants to build the North America's largest crude-by-rail export terminal in Vancouver, Washington. But many people in the community have a very different idea of the future they want for the region. At a public meeting on Tuesday, April 12, Port of Vancouve... Read more

OIL PRESSURE ON THE NORTHWEST

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Pressure continues to turn the Pacific Northwest into a hub for fossil fuel exports. Yet, opponents of these proposed refineries, pipelines and export terminals have managed to stop or slow the progress of several of these projects. On this episode of Locus Focus, Eric d... Read more

GMO-FREE JACKSON COUNTY

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Two years ago two Southern Oregon counties - Jackson and Josephine - passed initiatives banning GMO crops from being grown. After a year of lawsuits, Jackson County's anti-GMO initiative prevailed and now the Josephine County initiative may also become enforceable. On th... Read more

A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Originally Broadcast on November 30, 2015 When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in Denton—the first Texas town to cha... Read more

LNG Bites the Dust in Oregon?

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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For years, activists and landowners in Southern Oregon have been trying to stop the Jordan Cove LNG Facility. Despite widespread opposition to the terminal and the pipeline required to get fracked natural gas to the export terminal, Jordan Cove lumbered on. But this past... Read more

THE HIDDEN HALF OF NATURE, Part Two

Airs at: Mon, 02/29/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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This program originally aired on January 11, 2016 On this episode of Locus Focus we continue the conversation with Seattle biologist and consummate gardener Anne Biklé, co-author of THE HIDDEN HALF OF NATURE that we started during the winter pledge drive. This time we wil... Read more

Changing the Conversation about Fire

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am

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Forest ecologists Dominick DellaSala and Chad Hanson view forests as a dynamic ecosystem in which fire is an essential part of nature’s circle of life. For years they have promoted coexisting with backcountry fires rather than relentlessly fighting them. While the news m... Read more

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