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Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. That was Steven Stewart of the Indiana Forest Alliance. We’ll hear more from I.F.A. later in the program on how both wildfires and controlled burns pose Air Quality hazards. And we’ll learn about I.F.A’s new campaign for a new National Park as an Old Growth Forest Preserve. …

Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I am Cynthia Roberts. Later in this half hour, we hear from Marilyn Bauchat of Uplands Network, an aspect of the Hoosier Chapter of the Sierra Club, about their conservation initiatives and upcoming events. And now for your environmental reports: Inside Clean Energy reports onshore wind energy is working …

  Hello and welcome to Eco Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Frank Marshalek. Coming up later in today’s episode, we learn about the EcoBlitz wildlife survey program monitoring biodiversity and bat populations in Indiana which discovered a new species of bee. We also get details about an upcoming forest protection roundtable as Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks …

In this week’s Eco Report EXTRA, correspondent Zyro Roze gets an in depth update from Steven Stewart, Hoosier National Forest Program Director for the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA), on the latest developments regarding grassroots activists’ pressure on state officials to rethink the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project to allow more public input, greater agency transparency and fuller assessment of economic and …

Coming up later in the program, correspondent Zyro Roze gets an in depth update from Steven Stewart, Hoosier National Forest Program Director for the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA), on the latest developments regarding grassroots activists’ pressure on state officials to rethink the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project. And now for your environmental reports: How will Indiana respond to new rules about …

On Friday June 10th, concerned Southern Indiana residents met to discuss how to protect the Hoosier National Forest from a logging and burning project the Forest Service announced back in October 2021. The group, Save the Hoosier National Forest, opposes the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project, and wants to make sure the forest is protected for future generations and to help …

According to a new report from the environmental and indigenous rights group Amazon Watch, five of the world’s largest banks are funding crude oil extraction in the western Amazon rainforest. After immense conservation efforts, the numbers of critically endangered black rhinoceroses is slowly ticking up, according to the latest figures released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, as …

The volunteer organization Friends of Lake Monroe is working to develop a watershed management plan for the lake. Dr. Sherry Mitchell-Bruker is president of Friends of Lake Monroe. She appealed to the Bloomington City Council last week, for support for a grant from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Mitchell-Bruker said the grant would jump-start the development of the watershed …

Indiana Republicans reaffirmed ‘marriage’ as the union between a man and a woman, during their state convention, on Friday; MCCSC is looking to adopt new curricula for its middle and high schools students, after racist materials in the district’s elementary schools Social Studies curriculum generated controversy, earlier this year; Monroe County and the City of Bloomington are working on how best to …

The Sycamore Land Trust has expanded its conservation efforts across South Central Indiana since its inception nearly thirty years ago. Now, as the Land Trust is adding another employee, WFHB Correspondent Alex Davis speaks with Sycamore Land Trust Communications Director Abby Hankel, about the extent of the Trust’s work in conservation, and the challenges they face.