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At Coast Range Radio, we interview folks who work to build just communities that provide for people and the natural world. We are particularly interested in the connections between Oregon’s forests, social justice, and the climate crisis.
Coast Range Radio is a radio show and podcast from the nonprofit conservation organization, the Coast Range Association. Located in Western Oregon, the Coast Range Association works to build just and sustainable communities that provide for people and the natural world. Our work focuses on the connections between Oregon’s forests, communities, and the climate crisis.

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About a year and half ago, we did an episode on a Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, timber sale in Southern Oregon called Poor Windy, as part of our Worth More Standing series highlighting some of the biggest threats to mature and old growth forests on public lands.Recently, community activists set up a tree sit in an old growth grove that was targeted for logging within the Poor Windy sale, and within weeks, they were able to get the BLM to withdraw part of that sale! To talk about th...
Today, we’re going to go deep on an incredibly important subject, albeit one with a somewhat less than stirring name if you aren’t already familiar: The northwest forest planThe northwest forest plan sets the overall management strategy for 17 National Forests across a staggering 24 million acres of federal lands in Washington, Oregon and northwestern California, and the forest service is in the process of changing that plan in a significant way for the first time in its 30 year history!Those...
It is important to celebrate our victories, and today we get to talk about two of them!The Oregon Board of Forestry (BoF) recently voted to approve its first ever Habitat Conservation Plan on State Forests, and a bill to fully fund and strengthen Oregon’s Marine Reserve Program sailed through the recent legislative session.To talk about these victories and get updates on what’s ahead for both of these campaigns, I’m joined today by one of the leaders of each of these efforts. Charlie Pl...
We often think of the land and the sea as separate worlds that have little to do with each other. But that barrier is much more fluid and interconnected than many people realize.We’ve talked on this program before about what folks call the ‘Land-Sea Connection’, and today we’re going to talk about the ‘connection’ piece of that equation, estuaries! Estuaries are where the land and sea meet and intermingle, and are some of the most productive ecosystems in the world.To talk all about the...
On today’s show, Canopy of Titans: the Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest!Canopy of Titans is a new book written by journalists Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate which shines a light on the critical importance of protecting the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest.Paul and Jessica spent years reporting and researching for this book, traveling from the redwoods all the way up to alaska, and interviewing dozens of scientists, activists, experts, and ev...
Where I live in the coast range, I am surrounded in all directions by industrial timber plantations for miles in all directions.Now, I have no problem with logging. I think silviculture is a good and noble profession. But it is plain for anyone to see that the short rotation, financialized plantation management practiced by the Wall Street investors who own the vast majority of private timberland is destroying our communities and ecosystems.The Coast Range Association has been hig...
For those of us who work to make a positive impact on the world, there is often a default towards focusing on big national and international level issues.Between the rapidly worsening climate crisis, national campaigns to preserve Mature and Old growth forests, decarbonization and electrification fights, never-ending election cycles, on and on, it’s easy to forget that there are important local, grassroots struggles happening in communities everywhere that deserve our support and attent...
I don’t have to tell anyone reading this that here in the west, wildfires are a fact of life. I’m also sure that most folks are already aware that the climate crisis, combined with more and more homes being built in and around forest lands is creating an escalating cycle of devastation in fire prone communities.There is a tremendous amount of pressure on politicians and agencies to act, or at least to be seen to be acting, but right now, too many people, including many key decision makers, ar...
This is our first episode of 2024, and I can’t think of a better guest to start the year off with than State Representative David Gomberg.Representative Gomberg represents House district 10, which encompassess Lincoln County, as well as parts of western Benton and Lane counties, and happens to be my State Representative.Among many other positions, he serves as co-vice chair of the powerful Ways and Means budgeting committee and co-chair of the subcommittee on Transportation and Economic Devel...
It’s dark, it’s cold, and it’s very rainy. We may be a couple weeks from the solstice as of this recording, but for my money, we’ve definitely entered another coast range winter.I love to use this time of year to reflect and take stock, so I figured it was a great time to invite the Coast Range Association’s Executive director, Chuck Willer back for our annual year in review episode.You can find out more about everything we’ll be discussing today at our website, coastrange.org, and I re...
I recently had a great interview with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network, but I couldn’t fit our whole conversation into our last full episode. Brenna came on to talk about IEN’s ongoing fight to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, and how you can take action by submitting comments to the army corps of engineers by December 13th. But we also covered a lot more ground, and I really appreciated what Brenna had to say on the broader context of an indigenous just t...
Today, we have not one, but two amazing guests talking about two important and timely topics: the Dakota Access Pipeline fight, and the recent Elliot State Forest drama.Bob Sallinger joins to walk me through the bombshell that Oregon State University just dropped on the Elliott State forest process, and why them walking away might actually be good news.But first, we’ll hear a short excerpt of my conversation with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network about their ongoing fi...
This is part three of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring selected presentations from the Forests Over Profits Conference that the Coast Range Association helped organize this September.I’m so excited for you to hear this talk by John Brush of the Cedar Moon Collective and Tryon Life Farm, entitled, "Should Anyone Own The Forest?".From the "Rights of Nature" legal movement, to community forestry, and resurgent indigenous sovereignty, Brush shared a diverse and creative set of approache...
This episode is part two of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring excerpts from our Forests Over Profits conference and protests this past September. If you’re not familiar with this series, here’s what you need to know:This September, the Coast Range Association, in partnership with many other amazing organizations, organized a series of protests and a day long Forests Over Profits conference in response to a corporate timberland investment conference called, and this is their tit...
Hopefully, you’ve already heard our last two episodes on the Who Will Own The Forest conference, or maybe you attended the Forests Over Profits protest or counter-conference that We helped organize in response.If not, I would highly encourage you to go back and listen to the episode I did a few weeks back called, “Who Will Own the Forest, with Brenna Bell” so you can have some context for this episode. You can also go to forestsoverprofits.org to learn more.As everyone who attended our ...
This September, The Coast Range Association, along with partners like 350pdx, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network, the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, and many more, organized a major protest and counter conference in response to the Who Will Own The Forest timber investor conference.If you aren’t familiar with the Who Will Own the Forest Conference, I’d encourage you to listen to the episode with Brenna Bell of 350pdx, which you can find on this pod feed or...
We talk a lot on this show about the devastation wrought on our environment and communities by invasive capitalism, and today we get to talk about something tangible we can do to fight back!On September 26-28, Wall Street investors will join timber corporations, big oil, carbon offset & biomass companies in Portland for their annual “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference. With tickets costing over two thousand dollars apiece, this “timberland investment conference” brings together some of ...
One of the most important questions in the drive to rapidly decarbonize our society is how to replace fossil fuel generated electricity with clean, renewable sourcesAnd one of the key questions there is, what counts as clean and renewable?Today’s episode is all about biomass energy, which is essentially the burning of pelletized wood for electricity. The Biomass industry is valued at over 100 billion dollars per year and growing, and many countries count biomass as renewable and carbon ...
North Coast Land Conservancy, or NCLC, has been working to conserve land along the northern Oregon coast and coast range for nearly 40 years, and Katie Voelke has been its Executive Director since 2008.In this interview, she discusses NCLC's conservation philosophy, Oregon's land-sea connection, reckoning with the ownership model of conservation on stolen indigenous lands, and more.Learn more about North Coast Land Conservancy at https://nclctrust.org/Learn about our organization, the Coast R...
This episode is part two of my conversation with State Representative Mark Gamba, breaking down the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2023 legislative sessionMark Gamba represents house district 41, which encompasses Milwaukie, Oak Grove, and parts of Southeast Portland. I knew I could trust him to give an honest assessment of his first year in Salem, and he really delivered. You don’t need to listen to episode one before jumping into the second half of our conversation, but I hi...
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