Locus Focus

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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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Fire, Flood & Trump

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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As the world continues to take unnerving and unpredictable twists and turns, we check in again with Sightline Institute's Eric de Place, to gain some perspective on the craziness that abounds. We'll do a mash up everything that's frightening and confusing us - unprecedented... Read more

Eagle Creek Fire Seven Weeks Later

Airs at: Mon, 10/23/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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This past week a fifteen year old boy from Vancouver, WA was charged with five misdemeanor counts for starting the Eagle Creek Fire on September 2. Now that the fire is mostly contained and the alleged culprit will be brought to trial, attention is focusing on post-fire rec... Read more

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 in... 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 basi... 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, a... 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 of L... 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 Co... 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 area ... 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 fuel ... 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 ear... Read more