This Green Earth

During the second segment of This Green Earth , Kelly Nokes, an attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center , joined Chris and Nell to discuss "cyanide bombs," or M-44 devices used to poison native wild predators such as coyotes on public land as well as private property. Kelly shared the current legal status of these and proposed legislation to discontinue their use.

During the first half of the show, Nell and Chris learned about the Wasatch Wildlife Watch , a massive citizen science effort using camera traps to gather data about wildlife in the Wasatch Front and track how they are impacted by humans. Dr. Mary Pendergast, from Wild Utah Project , and Austin Green, with the University of Utah, joined Chris and Nell to share the details and how listeners can get involved as volunteers.

During today's show, Nell and Chris spoke with Daisy Fair, manager of Copper Moose Farm , about the upcoming 2019 season and the open house on Saturday that will kick it off. Daisy discussed the subtleties of organic and biodynamic growing and shared some of the best practices used at the farm. She also shared the news that Copper Moose Farm is now home to a rookery of Great Blue Herons.

In the second half of the program, author John Ross talks about his new book, The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West .

Today on This Green Earth , a study on wild bees. A groundbreaking, two-year study in southern Oregon found a greater abundance and diversity of wild bees in areas that experienced moderate and severe forest fires compared to areas with low-severity fires. Sara M. Galbraith , a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University joins Chris and Nell in the first part of the show.

In this special "Best Of" edition of This Green Earth , Chris and Nell speak with author Earl Swift who discusses how the rising ocean is slowly making a unique island in the Chesapeake Bay disappear, making its 400 residents the first possible climate change refugees in America.

In a special "Best Of" edition of This Green Earth , the first part of the program features how climate change is threatening America's National Parks, especially in the west. Chris and Nell visit with author Stephen Nash.

The third and final guest was Naomi Smith a sophomore at Park City High School, who gave a recap of the student-led Climate Strike at the Capitol Building in Salt Lake City, why she attend, and what she intends to do next.

The second guest on the show was Lauren Lockey, giving an overview of local non-profit Sage Mountain Rescue and their work providing sanctuary to rescued farm animals and educating about the impacts of eating meat and animal mistreatment.

During the first half of the show, Nell and Chris were joined by Kirk Wallace Johnson, the author of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. They learned the story of the 20 year old flautist Edwin Rist, who committed one of the most unusual crimes of the 21st century by stealing 299 bird skins from the British Natural History Museum. This theft destroyed an important ecological record gathered by Darwin's peers, disturbing an entire portion of the