EcoNews Report

On this week’s episode, the Green Gang talks with Jackee Riccio of the CROP Project about trespass cannabis grows —those rascals growing pot on our public lands. With this pot often comes guns, pesticides, and poaching. 

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On this week’s show, the Green Gang interviews author Jon Humboldt Gates about his new book “Firestorm,” the true life account of living through the 2017 Tubbs Fire. 

Gates is also the author of Falk’s Claim (about the historic lumber town of Falk) and Night Crossings, tales of historical mishaps involving Humboldt Bay.

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On this week’s episode, the Green Gang investigates mercury in Humboldt Bay and the Eel River. (Could they be connected?) 

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A new study in the journal Science documents the staggering loss of bird populations in North America — a decline of approximately three billion birds in total over the past 50 years. Local ornithologist Ken Burton says that Humboldt County is not immune to this trend. Using available data, Burton has determined that of the most commonly reported species in Northwest California, 69 percent of birds were reported less frequently. On the show, Burton digs into the data with the Green Gang to figure out the causes. 

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The Klamath River is now a person with full legal rights under Yurok Tribal Law. Amy Cordalis, General Counsel for the Yurok Tribe, joins the green gang to talk about what this means for the river and why giving recognizing “personhood” for the river is both a big and little leap under the law. 

(As Mitt Romney sez: “Corporations are people too, my friend.”)

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In this week’s show, the Green Gang discusses Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s attempts to fast track the approval of the Shasta Dam raise, which would benefit Bernhardt’s former client, the Westlands Water District. (The losers? The ecological community that would drown under rising waters.) The Gang also discusses Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of SB 1, a state bill that would improve state environmental law if the Trump Administration were to weaken federal law. Listen to learn how these two stories are connected.

LINKS:

• Baykeeper’s 15th Anniversary Party with Kenny Ray and the Mighty Rovers, Oct. 19 @ the Historic Eagle House
• EPIC Fall Celebration with Delhi 2 Dublin, Nov. 9 at the Mateel Community Center
• OBITUARY: Dan Dill, 1971-2019
• The Interior Secretary Wants to Enlarge a Dam. An Old Lobbying Client Would Benefit.
• Newsom Fails to Protect California from Trump’s Attacks on the Environment

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On this week’s EcoNews Report, with your regular panel:

• Greta Thunberg and the Children’s Climate Strike.
• Jonathan Franzen: Bad novelist, maybe halfway decent activist?
• Single-issue environmentalism versus ecological advocacy.
• The glorious destructive power of an enraged mother walrus.

LINKS:

• ”It’s Kids vs. The World in Landmark Climate Complaint,” Gizmodo, Sept. 23, 2019.
• ”What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?,” New Yorker, Sept. 8, 2019.
• The Karuk Tribe’s Climate Adaptation Plan

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Do you live or work in a tsunami zone? Do you drive through one to take your kids to and from school? Do you like to go to the beach but wonder how to know if there might be sneaker waves?

This week’s guest is Troy Nicolini, Meteorologist-in-Charge at the National Weather Service in Eureka. Troy has lots of practical, time-tested tips on avoiding sneaker waves, what to do in a tsunami and why empowering people to take action and connect with each other is better than instilling fear, whether you’re dealing with disaster-preparedness or climate action.

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On this EcoNews Report, your favorite Forest Grumps talk about “ecological grief” — the deep sense of dread and depression we get from thinking about how we are screwed in the face of climate change and the anthropocene.

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Remember the EcoNews Report? It was that handy, locally produced environmental news roundup on KHSU that you used to tune into on Thursday afternoons, back when KHSU was a thing.

Now, readers/listeners, it is back! Every Saturday at 10 a.m., the Lost Coast Outpost and our sister station KHUM (104.3 and 107.3 FM) will bring you the newly revamped half-hour enviro news/chat program with all the old familiar faces — Jen Kalt (Humboldt Baykeeper), Tom Wheeler (Environmental Protection Information Center), Larry Glass (Northcoast Environmental Center) and Scott Greacen (Friends of the Eel).

This week: What we’re doing, here; a roundtable on Caltrans’ Safety Corridor Improvement Project against the backdrop of rising sea levels; and nuking hurricanes — good idea, or great idea?

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