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It has been said Max Carmichael is a Stanford-educated rocket scientist, boxcar-hopping hobo, urban bohemian and desert survivalist – Moreover he is a seeker, perpetually curious, and an indie rocker (but that's a separate story) Lets join him on his travels to a remote mountain range in the Mojave desert he calls home.

An astounding Radio Landscape on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, Leonard Peltier, Political Prisoner. A story told by Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone and Lenny Foster. This is a very special story and first hand account of the trials of a person who some call America's longest serving political prisoner, Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison 48 years. Tracker Ginamarie tells t...

Pupfish. Little blue creatures endemic to pools upwelling amid rock strata at Ash Meadows. Here on Creative FRONTLINE, we’ve done several shows on water in the West. Only not the same water from your tap exactly but the waters in springs, aquifers, and rivers, and now, Death Valley and it’s mysterious partially underground Amargosa River. Water moves good things and bad in the desert including rad...

Following the fast track development of Thacker Pass for lithium mining, and the abrogation of various laws like Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, NAGPRA, NEPA, and others, the continuing pressure on Oak Flat and mixed interpretation of laws there, and the unknown unknowns of Salton Sea lithium/geothermal extraction, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), DOI, and the Biden Admi...

Tonight we celebrate 43 Episodes. How Rad is that? Tonight **Midnight Monday** on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara. The orange goo you see along Kivalina's shores speaks volumes about temperature, industrial pollution, algae, human waste, and global heating, With Jeff Hallowell, Bio Char engineer. If you're not part of the problem are you part of the solution? If you're not part of...

For Earth Day and Beyond we have a special on the GLOBAL LAUNCH of the Rights of Nature Now! Campaign At Creative FRONTLINE we're very pleased, totally EXCITED, and very honored, indeed, to help accelerate outreach. For more information about Rights of Nature Now! visit https://rightsofnaturenow.com/ It's a campaign to gain international support before the 2024 United Nations Cop 16 Biodiversity C...

Here at KPFK Creative Frontline storytelling is our business, or… helping other people tell their stories. We give these visions titles. Sometimes one title, sometimes two. This one, How to Save the Planet. The Jungle Speaks. has two. We’re here with Drea Burbank, Johnny Lopez and Fernando Lezama broadcasting from the Indigenous Amazon. at the southern reaches of ancient trade routes north and sou...

Fernando Lezama and Jhony Lopez, with Drea Burbank MD, from the Columbian Amazon. Learn About The Eagle and the Condor Prophesy and the Unity of Peoples, North and South. KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara Tonight's Program is very special. The opportunity to sit down and speak with Fernando and Johny is a relatively rare yet necessary step in intercultural communications, about Natu...

A Very Special Program Recorded Live from the Columbian Amazon on The Rights of Nature Movement on Creative FRONTLINE ! With Indigenous Healers/Shamans, Fernando Lezama, Jhony Lopez, and Shamans Network Administrator, Drea Burbank.

The Water Cycle by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker/Journalist

“Water, Springs and Biodiversity,” with geologist Andy Zdon about the complex interrelationship between water, ecology, and geology that forms and informs the delicate ecological balance supporting wagon trains and tribal communities alike, including the Paiute, Shoshone, and Chemehuevi peoples, since time immemorial.

I am fortunate to work with Pat Flanagan. We have a process together of writing and checking each other’s facts. Since she’s on the board of Morongo Basin Conservation Assn., and a scientist, she has a history with the Cadiz Inc. water marketing scheme and it’s new CEO, Susan Kennedy, former Chief of Staff to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and has followed it all since the beginning. We recorded...

I am fortunate to work with Pat Flanagan. We have a process together of writing and checking each other’s facts. Since she’s on the board of Morongo Basin Conservation Assn., and a scientist, she has a history with the Cadiz Inc. water marketing scheme and it’s new CEO, Susan Kennedy, former Chief of Staff to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and has followed it all since the beginning. We recorded...

Pat Flanagan is a longtime compadre and friend and informal co-writer. She's a scientist, a botanist, biologist, naturalist and educator. Pat tells the story, the only story, the big story of humans and the environment, how people first got here, what they found and why it matters today. It was my home for so many years as a kid, 3500 California Blvd in Pasadena. a lush environment in the shade of...

It’s that time again!! **Midnight Monday** Creative FRONTLINE is On The Air! KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara This episode features Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone, (Chiricahua Apache) again braving, storms, wind, and cold to provide us a real time report, “Tracker’s Going In,” with Patty Pagalin (Diné). Tracker drops down a coyote trail to the waterline of the reservoir behind an...

Dam removal on California's rivers is a highly visible and inspiring recognition of the benefits of natural services provided by healthy ecosystems. Tracker picks up where we left off as she reviews and reports on the progress of LA River rewilding. We discuss the role of tribal communities and efforts led by women to restore and rebalance, in light of Governor Newsom's recent announcement support...

Through Rain and High Water, Producer, Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone succeeded in visiting the swollen Ventura River at risk of evacuations, law enforcement actions, flooding and rain rain rain to bring you this timely and relevant report on Governor Newsom’s initiative to remove three more dams in the state of California in addition to 4 on the Klamath, and rebuild ecosystems and networks of w...

Robin Carneen (Swinomish) on climate, identity, community, environment, human rights, and finally the dangers of extractivism, geothermal and earthquakes.

Bison Roam Free Trigger alert. There are gunshots and a general discussion of federal policies on hunting bison. We hear from John Trudell and other Native voices, along with Attorney John Meyer who has filed a challenge to federal and state restrictions on free roaming bison outside Yellowstone National Park. CLEAN WATER We also hear from John on high nitrogen levels in streams leading from The Y...

There was an incident at Ft McDermitt, at a community meeting between Lithium Nevada and the Pai-Sho community at the Ft. McDermitt Tribe. The headline could read, "Ft. McDermitt tribal leader attacks minor without warning."

Where do we go from here in the face of enormous costs of survival and tenuous connections to traditional resource harvesting and utilization, the bowhead whale, now nearly inaccessible to hunters due to the loss of pack ice. You have joined us, on CreativeFRONTLINE. I’m your host, Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker and Journalist. With me today is Patrick Anderson, a health care and tribal administrator,...

Patrick Anderson is a tribal and healthcare administrator, former CEO and visionary... #RobertLundahlFilmmaking #ClimateChangeUnplugged #ClimateChangeisHere #humanity, #climateaction, #climateeducation, #energyresilience, and #securityandsustainability Patrick Anderson, Thunderbird Clan, #tlingit Attorney, Health Administrator and tribal manager discusses the Health of Alaska Natives in the era of...

Integrating health, culture, environment and language, as people of the sea. Shelly Vendiola walks us down the road of her personal history as a trained peacemaker in the field of conflict resolution, important in light of climate change adaptation. Shelly Vendiola introduces us to the systems approach she brings to her work with the Swinomish Tribe Protect Mother Earth Subcommittee buillding on t...