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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, March 4th, 2024. Later in the program, local journalist Dave Askins of the B Square Bulletin features a recent item from his newsletter, the Morning Bulletin. More in today’s feature report. That’s Julie Duhon from Tandem, a local nonprofit serving new moms and their babies. Julie wants to open Bloomington’s first community …

Producer Kalynn Huffman Brower introduces her series, The Secret Life of Fungi, by describing the root-like structure of mushrooms, and how the underground mycelium connects plants and trees in a vast network throughout our ecosystems.

Indiana’s caves, largely focused around the southern karst topography of the state, are reopening. Hoosier National Forest prohibited entrance to its caves for fear of spreading a deadly fungal infection that’s ravaged bat populations. As WFHB correspondent Jonah Chester reports, the death of millions of bats has dire implications for other parts of the state’s ecosystem.

In today’s Eco Report two part feature, correspondent Bob Kissel spoke with Dr. Roger Hangarter on the subject of biodiversity.

In today’s Eco Report two part feature, correspondent Bob Kissel spoke with Professor Dr. Roger Hangarter on the subject of biodiversity.