Tag Archives: environment

In this week’s episode of Eco Report, WFHB’s Julie Thomas and Julianna Daily report on human overpopulation is threatening iconic animals in the Masai Mara and Serengeti and the Bloomington city council’s  update on the Unified Development Ordinance during their meeting, last week. Also in this week’s news a federal judge in Alaska ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded …

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 radio rundown of ecological news, WFHB’s Glenn and Linda Lightner report on The Habitat Network, an online resource housed at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology which is  coming to an end on January 31 ,2019. Also in this week’s news stories three North Atlantic right whale calves have been born so far this calving season unlike last year where …

In this week’s radio rundown of ecological news WFHB’s Todd Wicks and Julianna Dailey report on Bloomington’s Maple Heights neighborhood being the subject of a fight over urbanization and gentrification, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro transferring responsibility for indigenous lands to the Department of Agriculture and the prairie restoration project,Kankakee Sands, near Morocco, Indiana, obtaining sixteen new bison calves.  All this and more …

In this week’s radio rundown of ecological news, WFHB’s Don Geyra and Tod Wicks report on a recent report by the union of Concerned Scientists stating that at least seven million Americans living near military sites could be exposed to unsafe levels of P-F-A-S,  due to the government shutdown many National Parks are also starting to close and as if …

Eco Report’s Kalynn Huffman Brower discusses the Hellbender Salamander in this week’s In Nature.

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 …

Attorneys representing Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill are bringing a defamation lawsuit against Hill’s alleged sexual assault victims; Monroe County signs a memorandum of understanding with the City of Bloomington, outlining mutual commitments to the Monroe County Convention Center expansion; The Hoosier National Forest is adding over 100 acres to its protected land; A new property law allows Indiana landowners to mark their …

This week, WFHB correspondent Norm Holy talks about climate change and Indiana forests with Indiana University Biologist Dr. Richard Phillips. This is Part 2 of a two part interview.

Over the last year, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources logged several state forests areas. During the process, they also clear-cut countless old growth trees. WFHB correspondent Jonah Chester sat down with Dr. Rae Schnapp, Conservation Director with the Indiana Forest Alliance, to discuss how these logging efforts are impacting Indiana’s woodland ecosystem.