Locus Focus

This program originally aired on June 25, 2018

According to Sightline Institute Tacoma, Washington is the major frontline

community in the fight to stop fossil fuel development in the Northwest.

After vehemently rejecting a proposal to build the world's largest methanol ...

This program was originally broadcast on June 18, 2018.

It seems likely that the Canadian province of Alberta—home to a massive tar

sands industry that produces some of the globe’s dirtiest and most

polluting oil—has put the Pacific Northwest in its crosshairs. The provi...

This program originally aired on May 28, 2018

Every May 18, I spend time remembering the eruption of Mt. St. Helens that

day in 1980. But this year I had the opportunity to commemorate the 38th

anniversary of the eruption by hiking the Hummocks Trail in the blast zone

o...

This week on Locus Focus we feature a new radio documentary produced by our

friends at WCUW in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Foreclosures for Sale: Revisiting Stories of Worcester’s Mortgage Crisis is

produced by Hallie Blashfield and Beatrice Misher. It tells the stories of

M...

This program originally aired on July 2, 2018

As this year’s fire season gets off to a roaring start we are still

absorbing the impact and lessons learned from last seasons megafire in the

Columbia River Gorge. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at post-fire

natural re...

Last May the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an internationally recognized

Civil Society public opinion tribunal functioning independently of state

authorities, held a special session in Corvallis, Oregon, on the human

rights impacts of fracking and climate change

On this epi...

As this year’s fire season gets off to a roaring start we are still

absorbing the impact and lessons learned from last seasons megafire in the

Columbia River Gorge. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at post-fire

natural recovery, the beauty and specialness of young cha...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife issued its first order and permit to

kill up to 4 wolves this year in early April, after wolves in Eastern

Oregon’s newest wolf pack, the Pine Creek Pack, killed three calves and

injured four more in Baker County. This kill order was g...

In 2015, President Barack Obama issued a plan to restore 7 million acres of

land for pollinators and called it the National Strategy to Promote the

Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators. While that was a good start, it

doesn't address the 4,000 species of native bees i...

A devastating expose of the harmful effects of synthetic pesticides, Rachel

Carson’s Silent Spring was an unlikely bestseller when published in the

fall of 1962. Immersing herself in a dauntingly wide-ranging body of

technical and scientific evidence, Carson turned a series...