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Living Downstream is a program for people who'd like to learn about environmental topics of interest in the Umpqua Watershed of southern Oregon and the larger Pacific Northwest region. It is coordinated by the AmeriCorps member serving as the Environmental Education & Outreach Leader for the Umpqua Watershed organization in an effort to bring awareness of environmental issues to a wider audience.
Episodes
![Episode 56: Interview with the Oregon Wild Horse Organization](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Episode 56: Interview with the Oregon Wild Horse Organization
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
This episode features quest speaker Theresa Barbour with the Oregon Wild Horse Organization to talk about wild horses and burrows in Oregon. She discusses the impact that horses have on the land compared to cattle, the importance of wild horses in the food chain, their native status, and BLM's management of wild horses on public lands.
![Episode 55: Interview with a local Resident - Chriset](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Episode 55: Interview with a local Resident - Chriset
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
This episode features guest speaker Chriset Palenshus, a local resident joining us to discuss the impact of white supremacy on land use and forestry management, ingenious practices and cultures. She wears many different hats, as a birth worker, mother, business owner, advocate of LGBTQIA+, gardener and more!
Chriset does not speak for any organization, she does not represent anyone, and this is her personal opinion.
![Episode 54:Why Raptors are the Solution and a special segment from Talking with Green Teacher](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
This episode features Lisa Owens-Viani joining us to discuss why raptors are the solution. Lisa discusses the impacts of rodenticide on rats, raptors and bird of prey. The impacts of rodenticide on other wildlife.
![Episode 53: Let’s talk with a local Douglas County band, Face for Radio](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Episode 53: Let’s talk with a local Douglas County band, Face for Radio
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
This episode features Umpqua Watersheds, executive director, Kasey Hovik. Together we interviewed a local band called Face for Radio whose members are:
Erik Schnautz- guitars, vocals
Lowell Smith- bass, vocals
Mark Rochester – drums
![Episode 52:Interview about Restoration in the Archie Creek burn](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Episode 52:Interview about Restoration in the Archie Creek burn
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
This episode we speak with guest speaker Al Walkier about the restoration work and progress they are making on their property. Planting trees, rebuilding their home, and restoring the land. The land upon which they live was once managed by the Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and Al explains some of the history about the land.
![Episode 51: Interview with Douglas County (OSU) Master Gardeners](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Episode 51: Interview with Douglas County (OSU) Master Gardeners
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
This episode features guest speaker Chris Rusch with the Douglas County Master Gardeners. We speak about the upcoming events, spring gardening practices, and plant species for the Pacific Northwest.
![Episode 50: Let’s talk about Sunflower Sea Stars](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Episode 50: Let’s talk about Sunflower Sea Stars
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
This episode features guest speaker Steven Rumrill. The Shellfish Program Leader for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Steven speaks about the impacts of the sea star wasting disease on Sunflower sea stars and other species.
![Episode 49: Salmonid species in the Umpqua River](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Episode 49: Salmonid species in the Umpqua River
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Friday Dec 16, 2022
This episode features guest speaker Ken Carloni, vice president of Umpqua Watersheds and long time educator. Ken speaks about the the Rock Creek Fish Hatchery, and the impacts of the Winchester Dam on Salmon and Steelhead population.
![Episode 48: Inteview About Livestock Nutrition and Pasture Grazing with Woody Lane](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
This interview features guest speaker Woody Lane, a livestock nutritionist, a forage and grazing specialist, and author of books. Woody talks about the strategies he incorporates and teaches to others about grazing/foraging management and livestock nutrition.
![Episode 47: Interview about the Natural Resource program at Umpqua Community College](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11394150/Podcast_optimized1024_1_300x300.jpg)
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
This episode features an interview with Bryan Benz, a professor and head of the Natural Resource program at Umpqua Community College. Kasey Hovik the Executive Director of Umpqua Watersheds also joins this interview. The interviewee discusses the natural resource program, college-life balance, and more.