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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, December 5th, 2023. In today’s feature report, WFHB Environmental Correspondent Robert Shull spoke with local Urban Forester Haskell Smith about what it’s like to be a forester, the local tree canopy and more. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a …

Hello and welcome to Eco Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. In this edition of Eco Report, we will hear from Marcia Veldman, State Coordinator for the South Central Indiana chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby on the scope of their activities across the state working to affect national policy and channel resources to local efforts to address …

In this week’s Eco Report EXTRA we hear from Marcia Veldman, State Coordinator for the South Central Indiana chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby on the scope of their activities across the state working to affect national policy and channel resources to local efforts to adress and adapt to Climate Change. Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze asks Marcia Veldman of Citizens Climate …

In this weeks episode of Ecoreport, WFHB’s Don Geyra and Tod Wicks report on the Indiana Department of Natural Resources is carrying out prescribed burns in Morgan-Monroe and Yellowwood State Forest over the course of next month and the Brown County Parks and Recreation Department selling woods to a timber company that then clear-cut a scenic overlook.  Also in this …

In this Week’s Feature Report, WFHB Correspondent Norm Holy speaks with Tufts Professor of International Environmental Policy, William Moomaw, about global carbon emissions and the roles of forests.

The Hoosier National Forest is adding over 100 acres to its protected land. The US Forest Service purchased 114 acres of mostly deciduous woodland on the south side of Lake Monroe, in late June. The acreage, which was purchased from an area family, was bought for over $450,000. The US Forest Service resubmitted their bid for the purchase several times …

In this week’s feature, WFHB correspondent Rebecca Mueller interviews Nature Conservancy forester Dan Shaver.

Eco Report’s Norm Holly interviews Jeff Stant, of the Indiana Forest Alliance. Discussing a green forestry label for logging sustainability and maintaining the forest at its age.