UNWON with Keely Covello
UNWON with Keely Covello
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Hearing from the people who feed, build, and protect a nation. www.americaunwon.com
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The podcast explores themes related to sustainable agriculture, forestry management, and rural advocacy, featuring episodes with guests like Albert Straus discussing the challenges faced by dairy farmers in Point Reyes regarding land and environmental regulations, as well as Craig Blencowe addressing sustainable forestry practices and the nuances of public land management.
Underdog journalism from working, rural, and Western America.
Darcy Burke is vice president of the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District and a longtime California water professional. She was also featured in the tweet heard around Lake, Mendocino, and Sonoma counties on Monday, when USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a potential buyer has emerged for the Potter Valley Project.
Darcy joins me today to talk about why her board is interested in purchasing two dams in Potter Valley, California local politicians and corporations have assured us for years no one wants.
Just what exactly is the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District? Why are they interested in purchasing this hydropower project? And most importantly: Do they plan on somehow defying the laws of physics and geography to steal Northern California’s water?
No questions were off limits for this important conversation about the future of water in Northern California and how one rural community’s bipartisan, out-of-the-box effort to save their water, their future, and their way of life against tremendous odds sparked a unified California stand against the machine.
Read previous coverage of the Potter Valley dam removals here.
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Sponsored by Ranch Vision: www.ranchvision.ioSpecial thanks to Josh Woolwine for creating our intro. Follow Josh at www.instagram.com/hjwoolwine.
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