"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.
Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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2024-11-19 | Who can we trust after a major disaster? | |
2024-11-18 | Laura visited one of the four rehab centers allowed to treat birds oiled in the Deepwater Horizon spill. | |
2024-11-12 | Laura talks about the extremely low-tech and ineffective way BP tried to protect beaches and islands after the spill, and the even worse way they approached cleanup. There are many photos and a video on the accompanying blog post at (https://lauraerick... | |
2024-11-11 | As Laura faces her 73rd birthday in what feels like a hopeless time, she looks to chickadees. (This program was reworked from the "For the Birds" program from October 12, 2010.) | |
2024-11-05 | The BP oil spill was when Laura learned just how much power a corporation has over individuals; well-meaning and well-respected organizations and institutions; and our government. | |
2024-10-29 | Billionaires and corporations have too much power over us, birds, and the environment we need and share. | |
2024-10-25 |
You're not getting older, you're getting better--oh, wait--you ARE getting older Birding may keep us young, but not literally. |
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2024-10-23 | Clean energy should be making us less, not more, reliant on huge transmission lines. | |
2024-10-22 | Power transmission lines can be very harmful for birds and human beings. | |
2024-10-18 | Laura recently returned from the American Ornithological Society's annual meeting. Some things have changed, and some remain the same. |