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Hosted by: 
Barbara Bernstein
Produced by: 
KBOO
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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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FELLING THE CONDIT DAM

Airs at: Mon, 10/24/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For a century dams have blocked salmon runs throughout the Pacific Northwest. These dams have wiped out or greatly reduced many of the salmon runs in the Columbia River Watershed, which was once the greatest salmon river in the west. But in the past few years, some of... Read more

Locus Focus on 10/17/11

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
DEEP FUTURE: THE NEXT 100,000 YEARS OF LIFE ON EARTH For the past few weeks we've been discussing relatively short term implications of climate change on a variety of ecosystems. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at how the course we take in the near future—whether to... Read more

DEEP FUTURE: THE NEXT 100,000 YEARS OF LIFE ON EARTH

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For the past few weeks we've been discussing relatively short term implications of climate change on a variety of ecosystems. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at how the course we take in the near future—whether to curb our appetite for fossil fuels or continue ... Read more

Locus Focus on 10/10/11

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
EMPIRE OF THE BEETLE Author Andrew Nikiforuk on the Bark Beetle's Seige of North American Forests A bug the size of a rice kernel is killing off more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees in North America. Historically bark beetles are not pests. A bark beetle can probably... Read more

EMPIRE OF THE BEETLE Author Andrew Nikiforuk on the Bark Beetle's Seige of North American Forests

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A bug the size of a rice kernel is killing off more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees in North America. Historically bark beetles are not pests. A bark beetle can probably hear the distressed song of a drought stricken tree and for tens of millions of years they h... Read more

Locus Focus on 10/03/11

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
THE DOLLAR LAKE FIRE: LOOKING BACK AT THE FIRE SEASON The fires this summer on the northface of Mt. Hood struck a dark chord for many of us who know and love the trails, basins and ridges of this rugged and least-accessible face of the mountain. Yet while we may feel great... Read more

THE DOLLAR LAKE FIRE: LOOKING BACK AT THE FIRE SEASON

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The fires this summer on the northface of Mt. Hood struck a dark chord for many of us who know and love the trails, basins and ridges of this rugged and least-accessible face of the mountain. Yet while we may feel great sadness imagining our favorite places scorched a... Read more

Locus Focus on 09/26/11

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
OUR DYING PLANET - An interview with ecologist Peter Sale Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet, a potential eradication being caused by us. Human activities are creating enormous changes on this planet which sustains us... Read more

OUR DYING PLANET - An interview with ecologist Peter Sale

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet, a potential eradication being caused by us. Human activities are creating enormous changes on this planet which sustains us, and the alarming plight of coral reefs is just one... Read more

Locus Focus on 09/19/11

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2011 at 10:15am - 11:00am
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World Population Hits 7 Billion - A Conversation with William Ryerson The United Nations is predicting that world population will reach 7 billion on October 31, 2011. Despite evidence that adding 225,000 more people every day to our population is stressing out the world—ev... Read more