1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Lincoln Brow, researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society, about the causes for the decrease in the monarch butterfly population in Mexico. 2.) Berle discusses the controversy surrounding the dumping of PCB's into the Housatonic River and the fact that it will take generations to be fishable again. 3.) In the segment "Locking Horns" Dr. Anthony Macotti and Professor Barry Commerce argue over whether or not incineration is the right way to get rid of PCBs. 4.) Thomas Lalley reports about the growing movement toward community supported agriculture. 5.) In the segment "Earth Calendar" Berle talks with entomologist Tom Tirpin about how insects cope with winter.

Date created

• 1996 February 11

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Chartock, Alan

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 1.097916667

Date Digitized

• 2009 November 10

Master Format

• WAV

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_es_000319

Subject

• Polychlorinated biphenyls
• Housatonic River (Mass. and Conn.)
• Monarch butterfly
• Community agriculture

Digitization Specifications

• Popped tabs, Encoding: 24bit/48khz; 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

88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b

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