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• Trump's Attacks on Public Lands

  September 26, 2026 · 29 min

  On this week's show, we travel to the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion, whose steep knot of jagged peaks, sinuous rivers, and deep canyons support a biodiversity hotspot. The Klamath-Siskiyou Wildland Center (KS Wild), based in Ashland, Oregon…

• Proposition 45 Harms Humboldt

  September 19, 2026 · 28 min

  On this week’s EcoNews Report, we dive into Prop 45, the ballot initiative forwarded by the California Chamber of Commerce that would significantly alter the California Environmental Quality Act by rolling back protections in the…

• Celebrating Public Transit Month

  September 5, 2026 · 29 min

  September is Transit Month in California, and here on the North Coast the occasion is marked with plenty of events, activities, and advocacy. Public transit provides lots of economic, social, and environmental benefits to our region, as…

• Barred Owl Removal: Working as Intended

  August 29, 2026 · 28 min

  Barred owl removal is moving forward in California and new data suggests that removals are working as intended: freeing up northern spotted owl habitat that was lost to barred owl invasion. A new peer-reviewed paper in the journal…

• RWE is Out. What's Next for Offshore Wind?

  August 22, 2026 · 29 min

  Offshore wind developer RWE announced that it has accepted a "settlement" with the Trump Administration. In exchange for abandoning three offshore wind leases — including one off of Humboldt County's coast— the German energy company will…

• Get Ready for the Super El Niño

  August 15, 2026 · 27 min

  A supercharged system of warm water off the Pacific Coast threatens to offer a wet and stormy winter. This "super" El Niño is likely to a record-setter, with temperatures already in virtually uncharted territory and months left to continue…

• Trump’s Plans to Disrupt Dam Removal Get FERC’d

  August 2, 2026 · 29 min

  Remember how a shady Southern California water agency, the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, announced that it wanted to take over the Potter Valley Project on the Eel River, seemingly to thwart dam removal? We have some good news…

• Land Back as Conservation

  July 25, 2026 · 29 min

  The effort to rematriate land, natural resources, and political sovereignty back to Indigenous peoples offers an important opportunity for restorative justice. It also offers an opportunity for better land conservation, moving from…