Episode 11: Charley Eiseman, Freelance Naturalist and Bug Tracker Extraordinaire
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Release Date: 10/05/2019
Episode 25: Mary Stucklen with Berkshire Zero Waste
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Today's show features Mary Stucklen of Berkshire Zero Waste about a new initiative of theirs, WasteLess Restaurants.
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Episode 24: Kelly Fuller with Western Watersheds Project
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Featuring Kelly Fuller, the Energy and Mining Campaign Director for the Western Watersheds Project, which has headquarters in a number of western states. We talked about the proposed lithium mine in Thacker Pass, Nevada, a project that WWP and others oppose on the grounds that it will destroy an important ecosystem and habitat for a number of unique species.
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Episode 23: Max Wilbert from Protect Thacker Pass, NV
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Today's show features Max Wilbert, one of the activists occupying Thacker Pass, Nevada, to protest a proposed lithium mine there.
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Episode 22: Laura Haight, Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI)
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Today I discuss the biomass industry with Laura Haight, U.S. Policy Director at the Partnership for Policy Integrity, or PFPI. PFPI uses science, policy analysis and strategic communications to promote policies that protect climate, ecosystems, and people.
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Episode 21: Dogwood Alliance w/Scot Quaranda
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EPISODE 20: Put Peaker Plants in the Past w/Rosemary Wessel of No Fracked Gas in Mass
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Today’s show features Rosemary Wessel, Program Director of No Fracked Gas in Mass, a program of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) discussing their Put Peaker Plants in the Past project.
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Wendell State Forest Alliance Lawsuit to Protect the Forests
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Today's show features Gia Neswald and Glen Ayers of the Wendell State Forest Alliance. Their group brought a lawsuit against the Mass. Dept of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and Secretary Kathleen Theoharides of the Exec. Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, to halt the logging of forestlands in Wendell State Forest.
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Episode 18: Northeast Wilderness Trust, with Sophi Veltrop
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Today's episode features Sophi Veltrop, Outreach Coordinator for the Northeast Wilderness Trust based in Vermont. We talk about preserving wilderness lands for wild species and the 37,000+ acres they have preserved.
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Episode 17: “The Issue with Tissue” w/Jennifer Skene of NRDC
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This week's episode features Jennifer Skene, international law fellow with NRDC and lead author of "The Issue with Tissue" Report that details the destruction of the boreal forest by clear-cutting by U.S. corporations and the Canadian government to supply virgin tree pulp to produce household tissue products such as toilet paper and paper towels.
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Episode 16: BEAT and Food & Water Watch vs. FERC
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Today's interview is with Jane Winn of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team (or BEAT) and Rosemary Wessel of No Fracked Gas in Mass (a program of BEAT). We talked about a lawsuit that BEAT and the Food & Water Watch have brought against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
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Today I am very happy to share my interview with freelance naturalist, photographer, and intrepid Bug Tracker, Charley Eiseman. Charley stalks all manner of critters alone or with his wife, Julia, in the woods and fields of his native Massachusetts and across the US. Since 2011, he has focused his attention and his camera extensively on leafminers and galls — of which there are an astounding number — documenting with great care and precision all the stages of their lives. In fact, he has co-written a book on the subject (see below).
Insects live quite fascinating lives, whether in the air or under cover of the leaves and stems all around us. I had the great pleasure of not only an interview with Charley about his work, but a tour of his wonderfully rewilded (and pleasantly buggy) acre on a quiet country road in northern Massachusetts.
Charley conducts plant and wildlife surveys for various nonprofits, state agencies, and universities throughout his native Massachusetts and in neighboring states. He holds an MS from the University of Vermont's Field Naturalist Program and a BS in wildlife and fisheries conservation and management from the University of Massachusetts. Despite his current focus on insects, he assures us that he is an extreme generalist with a passion for learning about all living things and their interconnections.
Thank you, Charley, for being so generous with your time and with your wonderful yard, so full of life and food for wildlife and humans alike!
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SHOW RESOURCES
Charley Eiseman’s Website — http://charleyeiseman.com/
Charley’s Blog, BugTracks
Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species by Noah Charney; Charley Eiseman
BUY THE BOOK HERE
UPCOMING EVENTS with Charley:
- October 8th — slideshow/talk for the Cambridge Entomological Club in Cambridge entitled “Life in a Leaf: The Wonderful World of Leafminers.”
- October 9th — “Native Plants as Insect Habitat” a slideshow/talk for Athol Bird & Nature Club, Athol, Mass
Eagle Hill Institute in Steuben, Maine — where Charley does week-long seminars.
Bug Guide website — Charley Eiseman’s images and pages