1.) Host Peter Berle discusses the controversy over the safe drinking water act and why some environmentalists take issue with the bill. 2.) Thomas Lalley reports on a controversy surrounding a proposal to build a water filtration plant near Woodstock, New York and why some think land preservation in the Catskills is a better bet. 3.) Lalley talks with Dr. Charles Lydeard about the recent decline in the mussel population. 4.) Berle talks with Dr. Alan Rabinowitz of the Wildlife Conservation Society about a trip he took to the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam and his discovery of several new species. 5.) In the Earth Calendar segment Berle talks with Dr. Ira O'Keene of the University of Massachusetts Division of Cardiovascular Medicine about why he thinks humans' cholesterol levels increase in the winter.

Date created

• 1995 November 12

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Chartock, Alan

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 1.070138889

Date Digitized

• 2009 November 3

Master Format

• WAV

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_es_000306

Subject

• Vietnam
• Mussels
• Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
• Water quality

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

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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