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Trees Radio Hour is a series of discussions between Trees' and its network of partner organizations exploring the current state of North Coast ecosystems and grassroots projects working to connect, protect, and restore the globally unique forests, rivers, and wildlife of the region. Wildlands advocates share recent environmental successes, view challenges that lie ahead, and offer ways for interested listeners to get involved.

The program is hosted by Trees Foundation's Susy Barsotti, President of the Board of Directors, Scott Lamorte GIS Coordinator, and Doug Wallace, Community Support Coordinator. It airs live on the North Coast on KMUD FM radio 88.9 northern Humboldt County, 91.1 southern Humboldt County, and 88.3 northern Mendocino County, and is streamed live at www.kmud.org.

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SHOW SCHEDULE
All from 7-8 p.m. Pacific time

Thursday June 30, 2005 - Thursday September 29, 2005 - Friday November 30, 2005

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March 31, 2005

Ancient Forest International, Lynn Ryan, North Coast Range Project Coordinator
Listen to this section - Get more information on AFI

AFI has been a leader in landscape-level conservation projects along the North Coast including Headwaters Forest, Redwoods-To-The-Sea, Journey-To-The-Sea, and currently the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act. Lynn discusses citizen efforts to permanently preserve 300,000 roadless acres of North Coast public lands and the prospects for passage of a wilderness bill, and opportunities to hike in some of the wildest lands remaining in the region.

Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Lesley Adams Outreach Coordinator, and Joseph Viale Campaign Coordinator and Interim Executive Director
Listen to this section - Get more information on KS Wildlands Center

Lesley and Joseph discuss the biological-uniqueness and global importance of the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion, and K-S Wild’s many projects within the bioregion. Of particular note is the need to purchase a 240 private in-holdng of pristine old-growth forest within the 20,000 acre Condrey Mountain Roadless Area in the Rogue River National Forest of northern California.

K-S Wild fights for permanent protection of the incomparable ecological riches of southwest Oregon and northwest California, with a particular focus on the Rogue River, Siskiyou and Klamath National Forests, and the Medford and Coos Bay Districts of the Bureau of Land Management. Since its inception in 1997, KS Wild has prevented the logging of nearly 3,000 acres of roadless and native forests equaling.

 

Friday December 10, 2004

Human Nature, David Simpson and Jane Lapiner
Center for Environmental Economic Development, Dr. Dan Ihara, Executive Director
Listen to section 1 and section 2

Get more information on Human Nature and the Center for Environmental Economic Development

Panelists explore the potential bioregional effects of global warming and opportunities for individual and collective action to mitigate the human impact on the global climate during this call-in roundtable.

Intrepid comedy idealists David Simpson and Jane Lapiner of Human Nature traveled to the Arctic to confer with native villagers about the impacts of a warming climate while researching their current play “What’s Funny About Climate Change”. Human Nature has been touring the country in efforts to help provoke new and effective responses to global warming and is developing “Global Warming: The Musical.”

Dr. Dan Ihara was a non-governmental observer at the 170-country Climate Treaty negotiations in 2000, and attended the historic Kyoto meetings that produced the greenhouse gas emissions protocol of the same name. The Center for Environmental Economic Development advocates for reduced U.S. fossil fuel emissions, the protection of ancient forests, restoration of native forests, and adoption of sustainable forestry practices.

 

September 30, 2004 Trees Radio Hour

Note: Show limited to half an hour due to coincident Presidential Debate.

Sanctuary Forest, Eric Goldsmith, Executive Director
Listen to this section - Get more information on Sanctuary Forest

Sanctuary Forest currently protects and cooperatively stewards over 10,000 acres of private lands within the Mattole River watershed. In the headwaters of the Mattole, Sanctuary Forest works with private landowners, nonprofit organizations, and public agencies as part of the Upper Mattole River and Forest Cooperative to protect and restore about 4,000 acres of old growth forest and salmonid habitat once threatened by timber harvest plans.

Eric discusses ways the public can get involved in Sanctuary Forest’s stewardship projects, through voluntary private lands conservation vehicles, restoration site monitoring, naturalist-led watershed hikes, and commenting on the management plan for the Mattole headwaters area currently being developed. The problem of chronic seasonal low water flows in the Mattole is also addressed with a focus on conservation and storage of abundant winter water. Sanctuary Forest’s upcoming report (as part of its participation in the Mattole River and Range Partnership) on options for, and obstacles to voluntary private landowner and collaborative water conservation in the headwaters of the Mattole, will also provide a model for north coast watersheds that face the same issues.

July 29, 2004 Trees Radio Hour

Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, Reuven Walder, Watershed Biologist
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SPAWN is active in restoration in one of the largest native Coho salmon bearing watersheds in California, Lagunitas Creek in Marin County. Through numerous volunteer programs including, naturalist interpretive creek tours, fish rescue, water quality monitoring, spawning surveys, and more, SPAWN is successfully engaging citizens in the effort to save the last of California’s imperiled salmonids. Reuven discusses SPAWN’s role in cohosting the 2004 Coho Confab at Samuel P. Taylor State Park

Eel River Salmon Restoration Project, Harry Vaughn & Jan Duncan-Vaughn
Listen to this section - Get more information on ERSRP

The implications of the state’s recent withdrawal of support for watershed-based, small-scale hatcheries, including the one operated ERSRP, are addressed. ERSRP’s unique blending of art and science is site specific and focused on upper tributaries in the watershed. Harry and Jan present a vision for restoring the ecological and cultural balance along the North Coast and share their optimism for watershed recovery, which includes the education of today’s youth through their Salmon-In-The-Classroom projects.

April 29, 2004 Trees Radio Hour

InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, Hawk Rosales, Executive Director
Listen to this section - Get more information on ITSWC

The InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council is a unique collaboration of 12 regional Native American tribes that developed to create and steward the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness area in Mendocino County on the Lost Coast. Hawk discusses the uninterrupted use of natural cultural resources in the area, conservation within the historic territory of the Sinkyone people, cooperative restoration projects, and new opportunities for public recreation in the Wilderness area.

Friends of Yosemite Valley, Roundtable Discussion
Listen to this section - Get more information on FoYV

A roundtable discussion among the hosts of the show regarding the recent successes of Friends of Yosemite Valley in challenging the extensive commercialization and urbanization of Yosemite National Park, including a $441 million long-term plan that allocates 90% of funds towards Park development projects. Significant environmental impacts resulting from the active and proposed projects are discussed.

December 2, 2003 Trees Radio Hour

Campaign To Restore Jackson State Forest, Vince Taylor, Executive Director
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Explore the 50,000 acres of redwoods in Jackson State FOrest and the campaign to change its management directive under the California Department of Forestry from maximum timber production to a balance of conservation, restoration forestry, education, and recreation.

Four years of legal successes have revoked an illegal Environmental Impact Report and voided the destructive forest management plan. Vince Taylor discusses a visionary bill supported by CRJSF that is progressing through the California legislature to reform Jackson State Forest management.

Piercy Watersheds Association, Jeff Hedin
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Spanning at least 11 North Coast watersheds, PWA grapples with a range of issues from proposed CalTrans bridge construction across the Wild and Scenic South FOrk of the Eel River, to a conservation land acquisition along the North FOrk of McCoy Creek, and the conservation needs and opportunities throughout tens or thousand of acres of public and private lands between the Red Mountain proposed wilderness area and the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park, in northern Mendocino County.

Salmonid Restoration Federation, Dana Stolzman, Executive Director
Listen to this section: part 1, part 2 - Get more information on SRF

Bridging the grassroots restoration movement and government management agencies, SRF provides networking and education opportunities for the statewide restoration community. The annual conference each March is a unique opportunity to explore the art and science of watershed and fisheries restoration.