Tag Archives: water quality

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:58 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSSHello and welcome to Eco Report. In today’s feature report, we are looking at a growing threat to one of Monroe County’s most important natural resources. Invasive species are spreading through Monroe Lake, threatening native plants, animals, and the lake’s overall ecosystem. WFHB Environmental correspondent, Amelia Bucher has the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 13th, 2025. In today’s feature report, we hear Part 3 with WFHB Environmental Correspondent Max Jancich as he speaks with Greg Olsen, Field Projects Director at the Sand County Foundation. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:37 — 26.3MB)Subscribe: RSSIn today’s feature report, we will listen to Part 3 with WFHB Environmental Correspondent Max Jancich as he speaks with Greg Olsen, Field Projects Director at the Sand County Foundation. Olsen discussed prairie strips, a conservation practice that integrates prairie ecosystems into 10-20 percent of farmland to improve water …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:10 — 40.1MB)Subscribe: RSSHello and welcome to Eco Report. In today’s feature report, we will listen to Part 2 with WFHB Environmental Correspondent Max Jancich as he speaks with Greg Olsen, Field Projects Director at the Sand County Foundation. Olsen discussed prairie strips, a conservation practice that integrates prairie ecosystems into 10-20 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:07 — 40.0MB)Subscribe: RSSHello and welcome to Eco Report. In today’s feature report, WFHB Environmental Correspondent Max Jancich speaks with Greg Olsen, Field Projects Director at the Sand County Foundation. Olsen discussed prairie strips, a conservation practice that integrates prairie ecosystems into 10-20 percent of farmland to improve water quality and soil …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 7.1MB)Subscribe: RSS130,000 people depend on Lake Monroe for clean drinking water and none of them are in charge of protecting its water quality. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns the land and the state manages the lake and the city treats the water they pull from the lake…but no …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:57 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, February 24th, 2025. Later in the program, WFHB News Correspondent Mackenzie Lionberger speaks with Judi Epp, one of the founders of Spencer Pride, about how the organization remains committed to fostering inclusivity in rural Indiana. More in today’s feature report. That’s …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:36 — 79.2MB)Subscribe: RSS Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze explores stark realities and imaginative solutions with a homesteader and sustainability educator from Spencer, Indiana about her life journey in academia and as a nature lover from a young age about her formative years, her travels and educational attainments, her return to her home state, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:02 — 42.7MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, January 25th, 2024. Later in the program, we have Civic Conversations – a segment in collaboration between the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County and WFHB. Today, we welcome Dr. Michael Hicks, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:03 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, January 22nd, 2024. Later in the program, local journalist Dave Askins with the B Square Bulletin explores the amount of transparency within the Bloomington City Council. More in today’s feature report. That’s Rhonda Greene from Johnson Christian Village, a non-profit serving …