Locus Focus

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Hosted by: 
Barbara Bernstein
Produced by: 
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Every Monday from 10:00am to 11:00am.


 

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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Activism, Agriculture, Science/Technology, Food, Global Affairs, Government/Politics, Environment/Climate
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KBOO Stream 1
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Summer of Fire, Smoke and Ash

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Five weeks ago a massive fire roared through the western half of the Columbia River Gorge, while hundreds of thousands of acres burned across the rest of Oregon, and more than another million in Montana. This week massive wildfires erupted across far more populated areas... Read more

Snake River Dams, Hot Water & Salmon

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As some federal legislators move to stifle salmon recovery and science, Columbia Riverkeeper recently released new research on how the Snake River dams affect water temperature and salmon migration. In 2015, hot water killed 250,000 sockeye salmon in the Columbia River b... Read more

Eagle Creek Fire

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This program was initially broadcast on September 11, 9 days after the Eagle Creek Fire was started. There has been much progress in containing the fire since then, returning evacuated residents to their homes and reopening I84, but much of this program is still relevant... Read more

Natural Defense

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As an increasing number pathogens that infect humans, animals and plants are developing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides, while farmers spray more pesticides and doctors prescribe more antibiotics, the diseases and infections continue unabated. On this episode o... Read more

First Impressions

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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The American Southwest is a land that echoes with mystery, stark beauty, and a history of brutality. On this arid landscape civilizations have risen and fallen for thousands of years. Some were wiped out by changing climatic conditions, others by the brutality of Spanish... Read more

Eagle Creek Fire

Airs at: Mon, 09/11/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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On the afternoon of September 2, a group of teenagers thought it was exciting to hurl lit firecrackers into the Eagle Creek canyon in the Columbia River Gorge. Shortly after a number of hikers witnessed and heard the firecrackers, a wildfire erupted in the Eagle Creek ar... Read more

SACRIFICE ZONES

Airs at: Mon, 09/04/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. On this episode of Locus Focus we present SACRIFICE ZONES, Barbara's latest documentary, originally broadcast on KBOO on June 5, 2017. As the fossil fu... Read more

Fighting Goliath

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. On this episode of Locus Focus we present FIGHTING GOLIATH, produced and broadcast in 2014. The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on e... Read more

Sculpted By Fire

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. This week we present Sculpted By Fire, produced and initially broadcast in 2007. In mid July of 2002 a series of lightning strikes ignited a number of sm... Read more

Salmonlands

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. This week we present SALMONLANDS, produced in 2005. Without the Salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it. Yet since 1991, most of the sa... Read more