Coast Range Radio’s interview with Timothy Ingalsbee, Ph.D.  We discuss a new messaging guide - Incendiary Rhetoric: Climate Change, Wildfire, and Ecological Fire Management from Tim’s organization, Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics & Ecology. To find the guide and to learn more visit their website, fusee.org. 

Tim is a leading expert in fire ecology and provides many insights to the large fires impacting Oregon and the west in 2020. Our conversation reveals several inconvenient truths about fire in Oregon. Tim tells a tale of two fires and offers many solutions to protect our homes and communities while storing large amounts of carbon in our forests, an imperative for our warming planet. 

This episode originally aired September, 2020.

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We’ve already done a couple shows this spring on Oregon’s 2023 legislative session, and I would highly recommend you give those episodes a listen if you haven’t already.

But today we’re going to talk about the bill I’m most excited about this year - Senate Bill 530, aka the Natural Climate Solutions bill

Amid all of the other pressing issues worthy of our time and energy, climate change stands alone as the singular crisis where we have no second chances if our society does not act now.  

It’s like a ticking time bomb, except it’s already exploding.  But there is still time to defuse the bomb, and some of our most important tools are Oregon’s forests and farmlands.

I’m so excited to be joined by Teryn Yazdani of Beyond Toxics to talk with me about SB 530, Natural Climate Solutions, and what we can do to help pass this critical legislation.

Before we get started, if you want a great primer on all the environmental and climate legislation we’re tracking this year, as well as how to engage in the legislative process, check out my conversation with Catherine Thomasson from a couple months ago (click HERE).  

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Resources:
SB 530 text: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB530/Introduced
Beyond Toxics's SB 530 page: https://www.beyondtoxics.org/work/pesticide-reform/resilient-forestry/natural-climate-solutions/
Official Oregon Legislature website: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/

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We talk a lot on this show and in the Coast Range Association work more broadly, about the invasive plague of global capital into our timberlands, all just about all other aspects of our world.  

One of the key frontlines in the fight against that invasion is mega factory farms, and the pacific northwest is a huge land grab target for Big Ag. 

I want to say right up top, this episode is not about eating meat or not.  No matter where you stand on eating meat, factory farms are an indefensible way to raise animals for all the reasons we’ll get into today, and many more.

Like most issues, when we make it about personal choice and personal responsibility, we let the true culprits off the hook, in this case, the agribusiness giants who control our food systems. 

Real progress requires systemic change.  That’s why I’m so excited to speak with three representatives of the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition about their campaigns to change policy, and what we can all do to help.  The guests for this show are: 

• Tarah Heinzen, Food & Water Watch Legal Director 
• Amy Van Saun, Center for Food Safety Senior Attorney 
• Alice Morrison, Friends of Family Farmers Co-Director 

If you are inspired to get involved in this fight, their website is standuptofactoryfarms.org.

Before we get to the interview, please consider sharing this episode with a friend, leaving us a review on your podcast app, subscribing if you haven’t already, all of these things that really help us reach a broader audience.  

And finally, you can donate at https://coastrange.networkforgood.com/projects/172942-support-coast-range-association or click the donate button in the show notes.   Your support, in any and every form, truly helps, thank you.

Show Notes:

• OR Factory Farming Moratorium Factsheet-SB85.pdf
• Stand Up to Factory Farms Coalition website 
• Food & Water Watch research on the pollution and greenhouse gas emissions of Oregon’s mega-dairy factory farms
• SB 85-1 bill language

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Today’s topic is something I’ve been interested in learning more about for a while now.  Many of you may be familiar with the amazing carbon sequestration potential of mature and old-growth forests, and I hope our listeners are familiar with the Coast Range Association’s groundbreaking land reform work focusing on private timberlands.

But forests aren’t the only ecosystem heroes in our fight against climate change.  Our oceans and nearshore environments hold enormous potential as well.

Blue Carbon refers to the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems.   The Nature Conservancy has just released a Blue Carbon State of the Science Report focusing on Oregon, and I am excited to be joined by one of the authors of that report, Joanna Lyle.  

Joanna is a Oregon Sea Grant Fellow, working with the Nature Conservancy to explore the carbon sequestration potential of Oregon’s coastal and near shore environments.

We are also joined by Sylvia Troost from the Pew Charitable Trust.  Sylvia’s work focuses on incorporating Blue Carbon into Pew’s marine based climate action plans.

I want to encourage you to share this podcast with your friends, and leave us a rating and review on your podcast app.  I have ambitious plans for this year’s shows, and we need your help to spread the word.  

I also love hearing feedback, guest ideas, or anything else!  My email is [email protected], and our website is coastrange.org.

Links
Blue Carbon State of the Science Report: https://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/sites/seagrant.oregonstate.edu/files/tnc-bluecarbonsynthesis-20221017.pdf
https://www.thebluecarboninitiative.org/
https://www.oregonkelp.com/
Joanna Lyle Sea Grant Blog: https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/seagrantscholars/author/sea_lyl/
PEW Blue Carbon page -  https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2021/09/24/blue-carbon-a-natural-ally-in-the-fight-against-climate-change
PEW Estuary mgmt article: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2022/05/9-ways-estuaries-enhance-oregons-coastal-communities

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The 2023 legislative session is underway, and a LOT of interesting Bills have been introduced.  

Speaking from experience I think the legislative process can be pretty daunting and somewhat byzantine if you’re not already familiar with it.

So I wanted to make an episode to help folks understand some of the most important climate, forestry, and conservation focused bills that have been introduced, and  how to meaningfully engage with the process

To help me unpack what we should all be paying attention to this session, I’m very happy to be joined by Catherine Thomasson.

Catherine is a retired physician, former executive director for Physicians for Social Responsibility, the current lobby coordinator for the Metro Climate Action team, and a lot more.

Before we get started, I want to encourage you to share this podcast with your friends, and leave us a rating and review on your podcast app.  I have ambitious plans for this year’s shows, and we need your help to spread the word.  

I also love hearing feedback, guest ideas, or anything else!  My email is [email protected], and our website is simply coastrange.org.  

Research Links/Show Notes:

Legislative Bill lookup tool: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/listbills/2022R1SessionBills.html

KGW Legislative Engagement Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI100VFzQN0

Metro Climate Action Team: https://www.olcv.org/metro-climate-action-team/

https://www.taxfairnessoregon.org/timber-tax-fairness/

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Aquaculture is the intentional cultivation of aquatic organisms like fish, mollusks, and aquatic plants, and humans have been practicing it in various forms for thousands of years.

If I asked you to picture what aquaculture looks like, there’s a good chance that if anything comes to mind, it would be environmentally destructive salmon farms, which are basically the underwater equivalent to confined factory animal farming operations.  

But it doesn’t have to be this way.  Aquaculture can be not only sustainable, but environmentally regenerative.  

The Pacific Northwest is ripe for a boom in aquaculture, but we need to do it right. 

So I reached out to Megan Considine of The Nature Conservancy and Steve Rumrill with the Oregon Department of fish and wildlife to learn more about the potential and risks with this burgeoning industry.  

Quick note: we had some technical difficulties with Steve’s audio, but he is a wealth of knowledge and experience, so I felt that it was important to leave in.  

As always, I love hearing feedback and guest ideas! My email is [email protected].

If you like the show, please leave a rating and review, share this episode with at least one friend, and please consider a donation of any amount to Coast Range Association at coastrange.org.

Links and Resources:

• TNC restorative aquaculture document: https://www.nature.org/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/documents/TNC_PrinciplesofRestorativeAquaculture.pdf
• Greenpeace Article on Aquaculture: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/legacy/Global/usa/report/2008/3/challenging-aquaculture.pdf
• Oregon Kelp Alliance: https://www.oregonkelp.com/
• Hakai Magazine Series on Aquaculture: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/big-fish-the-aquacultural-revolution/

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Today’s show is a perfect start to the new year - celebrating a win! 

We’ve talked extensively in past episodes about the vital role that intact and recovering western forests play in carbon sequestration and preserving biodiversity. We’ve also talked about the threats to those forests. 

Even as the climate emergency deepens and President Biden has issued executive orders to preserve mature and old growth forests, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management have proposed timber sales of those endangered forests all across the country. 

Well, the Coast Range Association has been proud to be a part of a broad coalition fighting back, and a couple weeks ago, the Forest Service suspended it’s proposed Flat Country Timber Sale in the Mckenzie River Ranger District east of Eugene. 

To talk about the timber sale, this victory, and the next steps for the Climate Forests campaign, I’m joined by Madeline Cowen. Madeline is the grassroots and digital organizer for the Eugene based, Cascadia Wildlands, and she is a leader in the Flat Country campaign. 

Email me with show ideas, guest suggestions, or just to say hi, [email protected]. 

Please leave us a rating and review, and share this episode with at least one friend!

Links and Resources
Coast Range Association: https://coastrange.org/

Climate Forests Campaign: https://www.climate-forests.org/ 

Worth More Standing Report: https://www.climate-forests.org/_filesx/ugd/73639b_03bdeb627485485392ac3aaf6569f609.pdf 

Climate Forests Flat Country Page: https://www.climate-forests.org/post/willamette-national-forest-oregon-flat-country-timber-sale

 Cascadia Wildlands 42 Divide Campaign page: https://www.cascwild.org/cancel-bureau-of-land-management-plans-to-log-coast-range-forests-200-years-old/ 

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On today’s show, we’re heading south to California to learn about the groundbreaking Tribal Marine Stewards Network.

The Tribal Marine Stewards Network, or TMSN, is an alliance of Tribal Nations working collaboratively to reclaim their right to protect and restore coastal and marine ecosystems in California.  

Even in the modern era, government agencies have historically been either resistant, or outright hostile to, Tribal co-management and sovereignty, (google northwest fishing wars for just one modern example) and so I was really excited to see the State of California changing course and supporting a co-management strategy.

Of course, that is not the way it started.  Tribes had to work for years to bring State agencies around to a collaborative approach, and I think there is a lot to learn from their success.

So I’m joined today by Chairman Valentin Lopez of the Aham Mutsun Tribal Band, which is  one of the founding tribes of the TMSN.

There is way more to the Tribal Marine Stewards Network, and the history of colonizers and indigenous peoples in California in general, than we were able to get into in this conversation.  So I highly recommend that you check out our show notes for links and resources.  

And since all non tribal land in this country is stolen land, if you want to learn more about the history of whose land you’re on, a good place to start is https://native-land.ca/.

As always, email me with feedback, show ideas, or anything else at [email protected].  

And if you like what we do, please leave us a review in your podcast app and click the donate link in the podcast show notes. Your support really matters.

Research Links/Show Notes:

Tribal Marine Stewards Network website: https://tribalmsn.org/

Aham Mutsun Tribal Band: http://amahmutsun.org/

Aham Mutsun History: http://amahmutsun.org/history

Californian Native American Holocaust Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwgopN9lFpg

More California Native History: https://nahc.ca.gov/resources/california-indian-history/

California tribal map: https://www3.epa.gov/region9/air/maps/pdfs/r9-california-tribal-lands-reservations-air1100040_3.pdf

Native Land Map: https://native-land.ca/

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2022, like the last several years, has been quite a ride!  And we at the Coast Range Association have been hard at work all year, providing the kind of inter-sectional analysis that no other organization brings to western Oregon and the coast.

So as we enter into the reflective days of December, I thought it would be a good idea to have our Executive Director, Chuck Willer, back on the show to discuss what we've been up to, and what 2023 might have in store for CRA.

If you want to learn more about anything we talked about today, see the show notes or go our website, coastrange.org.

And register for our webinar "Connecting Forests, Climate, and Divestment: a Webinar about Wall Street Timberlands Exploitation " (Thursday, Dec 8th, 6-7pm)!
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qd-CgrTIqGdZEKknLNPnUXRtSUowtCpNS

Show Notes:
(Draft) Coast Range rural population study map: https://coastrange.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Pop-Poster-sm.pdf

CRA Land Reform Proposal: https://coastrange.org/gnd-proposal/

Western Oregon Corporate Ownership Maps: https://coastrange.org/challenging-wall-street-forestry/ownership/

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Today’s episode is part of an ongoing semi- monthly series i’m putting together on Threatened Mature and Old Growth Forest in the united states.  Mature and oldgrowth forest are vital resources for carbon sequestration, biodiversity resilience, watershed protection, air purification, and so much more.

some studies show that old growth counts for as little as seven percent of our remaining forestlands.  Yet mature and old growth forests, which by definition take generations to regenerate, are being logged right now.  

Literally, if you’re listening to this during daylight hours, these heroes of our world are on the chopping block.  And it’s not just about the trees, it’s about the entire ecosystems that they anchor.

That’s why the Coast Range Association is proud to be a part of the Climate Forests campaign.  Over the next few months, every couple episodes or so, I’ll be profiling a different threatened forest and some of the organizations working to protect them.  

These episodes are stand alone, but I suggest checking out episode 45 with Lauren Anderson to get a good overview of the Climate Forests campaign.  You can find that, and all episodes of Coast Range Radio, wherever you get your podcasts or at Coast Range dot org.

Speaking of our website, quick note: Most of the forests I’ll be profiling are on public land, but private timberland reform is an absolutely critical piece of the puzzle as well, and I’d encourage anyone listening to go to coast range dot org and check out our Green New Deal for Industrial Forests Proposal.

Today, I’m bringing you excerpts from two interviews I did looking at Forest on Bureau of Land Management land threatened by a pair of timber sales called ‘Poor Windy” and Evans creek

I spoke with Sangye Ince-Johannsen, staff attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center, or WELC, and George Sexton, conservation director for the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, also known as KS Wild.

I really enjoyed my conversations with George and Sangye, and there was a lot I couldn’t fit into the radio episode, so I’ll be releasing bonus episodes of the separate conversations into the podcast feed over the next week or so.  Let me know what you think of the format!

If you like what we do, please consider becoming a monthly donor to the coast range association, at https://coastrange.networkforgood.com/projects/172942-support-coast-range-association. 
Whatever the amount, your support goes a long way with a small but mighty organization like CRA!

Research Links/Show Notes:

Worth more standing report: https://www.climate-forests.org/worth-more-standing

Poor Windy: https://www.climate-forests.org/post/medford-district-bureau-of-land-management-oregon-poor-windy-project

https://westernlaw.org/court-approval-of-old-growth-sales-in-northern-spotted-owl-habitat-violated-endangered-species-act/

https://www.invw.org/2022/09/09/in-the-northwest-and-beyond-mature-and-old-growth-trees-remain-under-threat-in-spite-of-bidens-move-to-protect-them/

https://www.kswild.org/staff-board-1/2017/6/13/george-sexton

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