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Fall Fund Drive

The on-air portion of our fall fund drive has ended, but there's still time to help KBCS reach it's overall goal by month's end. Please give now, and thank you to everyone who has already donated and our many sustaining donors!

$150,000 Goal

93.90%

Drive ends: September 30, 2023

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Living in an Eastern WA Wildfire Season

 
Laura Ackerman lives on a hobby farm on the eastern side of West Plains near Spokane.  She’s also an environmental organizer and Co-host of the radio program Earth Matters Now airing on KYRS community radio in Spokane.  Ackerman shares a resident’s perspective on the wildfires in Eastern Washington. 
 
Producer: Yuko Kodama
Photo: cropped from KYRS photo

Nature: Douglas Fir Trees and Forest Fires

This story first broadcast in January of 2018

In this KBCS nature series segment, Ed Dominguez, Seward Park Audubon Center Lead Naturalist, talks to KBCS’s Yuko Kodama about the benefits of allowing fires burn away the undergrowth. They also discuss how the Douglas Fir tree’s thick bark helps protect it from forest fires and why the intensity of forest fires has increased since modern fire suppression techniques have developed in the past few hundred years.

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Basing Summer Plans on Wildfires

Summer wildfires are the new face of catastrophic climate change in Washington and much of the West. As summer 2019 unfolds, those who can, are making plans to become seasonal climate refugees to escape the smoke and unhealthy air. Find out what options there are who can’t leave town.

Producers: Martha Baskin and Daniel Guenther
Photo: Charles Luce

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