The Journalism Project

Gray Shaw, Project Coordinator

The Sustainable Forestry Journalism Project consists of mostly prerecorded programs that are produced for broadcast on KMUD public radio.

Below you can find descriptions of our previously aired shows, with links to listen.

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Drax the Deforester

UK bioenergy company Drax plans to convert Northern California forests into wood pellets for the European power market.

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Fire Radio 10/7/24 Talk Show

Members of local VFD’s and Trees Foundation discuss current fire programs and strategies for the region. Fire management is now a combination of suppression and ignition.

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Wyatt Leach Interview

A young leader in wildland fuel management talks about his work combining suppression, manual reduction and prescribed burns

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Brian Dykstra

Indigenous views on fire management, pollination, relationship to land and other topics, with Native Health In Native Hands development director Brian Dykstra

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Klamath and Eel River Dam Removals

Author Greg King talks with Richard Gienger about The Ghost Forest — Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods; Craig Tucker, Brook Thompson, and Charlie Schneider join with personal takes on Klamath and Eel River dam removals.

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The Geology of Trees

Re-aired 2021 interview of HSU geology professor Jasper Oshun on the invisible impacts of geology on trees in terms of subsurface hydrology

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A Founder’s View: ISF and FSC

ISF co-founder David Simpson talks with former forest activist Nate Madsen about FSC certification, criticizing its compromised application on Rainbow Ridge. Live, unedited show from 2020.

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Building Ecodiversity at Home

The ecological potential of urban lots, as told by Isaac Brown. His front yard became a haven for local species when he replaced his lawn with native plants.

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Permaculture in Humboldt

Local instructor Levon Durr talks about the annual seed and scion exchange and how the practice of permaculture has evolved

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Cloning v. Climate Change

Propagating solutions to climate change with clones of champion trees—the work of David Milarch and Archangel Ancient Tree Archive

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On and Off Grid Power

Greenwired Renewable Energy Solutions’ Matty Tittman covers the how-to of grid-tied and off-grid power, with a view to the future

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Fasting for the Forest

The eponymous owner of Sue’s Organics culinary sauces describes her earlier activism on behalf of old-growth redwoods.

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Brooke Cena’s Journey

Eureka native tells the circuitous story of how she ended up back in Humboldt to practice woodworking.

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Pony the Gyppo Logger

Pony Klingel (L in photo) came to Humboldt in the 1970s and became a logger, among other things

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