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  • Environment Show #394

    Type:
    Audio
    Date Created:
    1997 July 19
    Collection:
    WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
    Collecting Area:
    New York State Modern Political Archive
    Collection ID:
    apap138
    Parent Record(s):
    88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b
    Description:
    1)Peter Berle talks with environmental activists about the Porter/ Kennedy Amendment to the Interior Appropriates Bill that would eliminate federal subsidies for logging roads. 2)Thomas Lalley talks with scientists about the benefits and drawbacks of using biological control to manage and/or eliminate exotic and invasive plant and animal species. 3) Author Howard Frank Mosher reads an excerpt from his book, ?North Country: A Personal Journey.? 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Edward Johnson, professor and fire ecologist at the University of Calgary, about summer forest fires. 5) Peter Berle talks with Peter E. Lynch, author of ?Silvio: Congressman for Everyone: A Biographical Portrait of Silvio O. Conte,? about the congressman and the Silvio Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge along the Connecticut River. 6) Peter Berle consults with experts, Don Berry, acting Assistant Secretary of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and Ginette Hemley, Director of International Wildlife Policy at the World Wildlife Fund, to answer listeners? questions about the most recent conference for the Convention on International Trade and Species. 7) Recording of Christopher?s ?This is the Earth? from the CD, ?More Pickings A Second Acoustic Harvest.?
    Subject:
    Mosher, Howard Frank, Subsidies--Environmental aspects--United States, Fire weather--United States, and Pests-- Biological control