1) Steven Westcott talks with Scott Holste, spokesman for the Missouri Attorney General?s Office, Charlie Arnot, Vice President of Communications for Premium Standard Farms, and Ralph Summers, Coordinator of the EPA?s Wastewater Discharge Program for the northern Missouri area, about the investigation into the waste discharge practices at Premium Standard Farms and the general problems associated with large-scale pig farms. 2) Lee Talbott discusses his role as a consultant for the World Bank?s dam project on the Nam Theun River in Laos. 3) In the Ear to the Ground segment, Linda Anderson talks with Elizabeth Richardson from Colorado Open Lands, a non-profit land trust, about efforts to preserve open land throughout Colorado. 4) In The Earth Calendar segment, Peter Berle talks with Jennifer Kaiser, Communications Director for the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, about tarantula mating season. 5) Eugene Sohn talks with Marva Ginrich, an outdoor recreation planner at the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge, and Bernd Blossey, Director of the Biological Control of Non-Indigenous Plant Species Program for the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, about efforts to control Purple Loosestrife, an invasive species, at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. 6) Peter Berle talks with Mary Olson, a nuclear waste specialist for the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Dale Klein, Associate Vice-Chancellor for the University of Texas System and a scientist at the National Research Center in Amarillo, about the First International Convention on Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel. 7) Lauren Cometeau reports from Holland about pig farms, pork exports, and impact of swine fever on local pig farmers.

Date created

• 1997 September 20

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Chartock, Alan

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 53:40:00

Date Digitized

• 2010 March 12

Master Format

• WAV

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_es_000403

Subject

• Land trusts?Colorado
• Swine--Manure--Environmental aspects
• Nam Theun River (Laos)
• Tarantulas

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