1.) Host Peter Berle talks with John Kessler of the Environmental Protection Agency about Project XL, a regulation that allows the government to regulate pollution by signing agreements with various organizations and industries. 2.) In the segment Talking Green, Berle talks with nature writer David George Gordon and Steve Pirkell of the Sonora Arthropod Institute, about cockroaches and other insects. 3.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Bob Eke of the Yellowstone Trust about the difficulties bison in the park are having with especially tough winter. 4.) Thomas Lalley discusses the proposal of new legislation that would effect irrigation in the Central Valley of California and talks with Steve Richardson of the Bureau of Reclamation about the issue. 5.) In another Talking Green segment Berle talks with John Costiac of the National Wildlife Federation, Glen Spayne of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermans' Association, and economist Dan Corsi about the the fact that the Endangered Species Act is up for reauthorization. 6.) Lalley talks with Marki Morgan about the dangers involved with raising wolves as pets. 7.) The show ends by playing Joni Mitchell's song, Big Yellow Taxi.

Date created

• 1997 February 1

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Chartock, Alan

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Date Digitized

• 2009 December 1

Master Format

• WAV

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_es_000370

Subject

• Project XL (United States. Environmental Protection Agency)
• Irrigation--California--Central Valley (Valley)
• Insects
• Bison--Yellowstone National Park

Digitization Specifications

• Popped tabs, Encoding: 24 Bit/48 khz; Software: Pro Tools LE 7.3; Hardware: Marantz PMD500 Stereo Double Cassette Deck, Dell Precision T7400 with a 2.33 Ghz Intel Xeon processor.

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
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ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

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Scope and Contents

Collection

WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the New York State Modern Political Archive