Podcast appearances and mentions of tara lohan

People REALLY love their impervious surfaces. Concrete structures practically permeate human-built landscapes. Rather than layering ever more concrete on top of living soils, in waterways, and all over the countryside, what if we re-established our connection with natural ecosystems and put a stop to the concrete madness? One of the most inspiring developments of environmental and cultural restoration involves the cleanup of tons and tons of concrete. We're talking dam removal today. So grab a sledge hammer, a few sticks of dynamite, and a wrecking ball, and come along as we explore the battle between concrete placement and concrete removal. And don't miss our interview with Tara Lohan, author of Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life. Originally recorded on 3/17/26.Sources/Links/Notes:The Reef Line“Underwater ‘traffic jam' off Miami beach, CBS News, November 3, 2025Miami Beach's New Traffic Jam Frolics With the Fishes, New York Times, December 1, 2025We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of Time, Science Alert by Michelle Starr, October 29, 2025L“Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future” by Mary Soderstrom. University of Regina Press, 2020.“Concrete: From the Ground Up” by Larissa Theule. Candlewick Press, 2022.“This is the total weight of everything humans have created since 1990” World Economic Forum, December 6, 2021“Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass” Nature.com, December 9, 2020“Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life” by Tara Lohan. Princeton University Press, 2025Map of U.S. Dams Removed Since 1912“Ten years after Oregon's largest dam removal” Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2017“‘Salmon Everywhere' One Year After Klamath Dam Removal” California Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2025Undammed: The Klamath River Story podcast“First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath River after the largest dam removal in U.S. history” Oregon Public BroadcastingCar Free AllianceAuto MatTransportation Action Network“Stop this destructive, car-centric development” Hindustan Times, December 22, 2025Ridges to RifflesRivernetwork Member DirectoryDepave.orgRelated episode(s) of Crazy Town:Episode 48, “The Taming of the Slough: Humanity's History of Trying to Control Water”Episode 123, “Mailbag: The Crazy Townies Speak!”

Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan  talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN, March 2. 2026 (WPKN, March 2, 2026)    The post Tara Lohan, author: “Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life” appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara's first book, she authored one at age eight. From their she followed her passion to become an accomplished environmental journalist, initially as a graduate student in literary non-fiction, followed by more than two decades of reporting on the confluence of water, energy and biodiversity. Her work has been published in such periodicals as The Nation, High Country News, Grist, Salon, The American Prospect and The Revelator. She also has been an editor on two books focusing on the global water crisis, Water Matters and Water Consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara's first book, she authored one at age eight. From their she followed her passion to become an accomplished environmental journalist, initially as a graduate student in literary non-fiction, followed by more than two decades of reporting on the confluence of water, energy and biodiversity. Her work has been published in such periodicals as The Nation, High Country News, Grist, Salon, The American Prospect and The Revelator. She also has been an editor on two books focusing on the global water crisis, Water Matters and Water Consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara's first book, she authored one at age eight. From their she followed her passion to become an accomplished environmental journalist, initially as a graduate student in literary non-fiction, followed by more than two decades of reporting on the confluence of water, energy and biodiversity. Her work has been published in such periodicals as The Nation, High Country News, Grist, Salon, The American Prospect and The Revelator. She also has been an editor on two books focusing on the global water crisis, Water Matters and Water Consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-west

Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara's first book, she authored one at age eight. From their she followed her passion to become an accomplished environmental journalist, initially as a graduate student in literary non-fiction, followed by more than two decades of reporting on the confluence of water, energy and biodiversity. Her work has been published in such periodicals as The Nation, High Country News, Grist, Salon, The American Prospect and The Revelator. She also has been an editor on two books focusing on the global water crisis, Water Matters and Water Consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Tara Lohan offers deep insight into the extraordinary capability of environments to recover within relatively short periods of time after the removal of dams that have blocked natural waterways for generations.

Environmental journalist, Tara Lohan has just released a new book titled, “Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life,” The book details the benefits of dam removal from river restoration to water quality improvement, which in turn has a multitude of affects, including the increase of fish populations that can feed people and restore rights for Native American Tribes.

Welcome to the IndependentLeft.News Daily Headlines podcast for Sunday, March 7th, 2021. Early Edition - https://independentleft.news/?edition_id=2ed433c0-7f42-11eb-8e7a-fa163edbd376&utm_source=anchor&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=top-headlines-podcast&utm_content=ILN-Anchor-top-headlines-podcast-early-ed-03-07-21 Top Headlines:

Today we talk with John Platt and Tara Lohan, with the Revelator, a publication under the Center for Biological Diversity, and the column Extinction Countdown. John and Tara highlight what stories they'll be paying attention to in 2020, a run-down of the 2019 Extinction Countdown and what we can learn from them for the years ahead and current events which wouldn't be complete without discussing Australia bushfires, water and consequences of EPA rollbacks and upcoming election. An award-winning environmental journalist John is the editor of The Revelator, with his work appearing in Scientific American, Audubon, Motherboard, and numerous other magazines and publications. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run continuously since 2004 and has covered news and science related to more than 1,000 endangered species. Tara Lohan is deputy editor of The Revelator and has worked for more than a decade as a digital editor and environmental journalist focused on the intersections of energy

Statewide regulations and local innovations are all contributing to making water conservation a “California way of life.” Water Deeply managing editor Tara Lohan discusses California’s statewide and local conservation efforts with Cynthia Koehler, cofounder and executive director at WaterNow Alliance, and Erik Porse, a research engineer in the Office of Water Programs at California State University, Sacramento.

In 2014, California voters approved a water bond that allocated $2.7 billion to fund the public benefits of new water storage projects. The California Water Commission has been reviewing a list of potential projects and will be announcing how much funding eligible projects will receive. Will California get its first new dam in decades? Will groundwater storage projects receive a boost? And how are the “public benefits” of these projects being evaluated? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, discusses these questions and more with Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis, and Rachel Zwillinger, water policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife.

In 2014, California voters approved a water bond that allocated $2.7 billion to fund the public benefits of new water storage projects. The California Water Commission has been reviewing a list of potential projects and will be announcing how much funding eligible projects will receive. Will California get its first new dam in decades? Will groundwater storage projects receive a boost? And how are the “public benefits” of these projects being evaluated? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, discusses these questions and more with Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis, and Rachel Zwillinger, water policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, speaks with author and water expert Sandra Postel about her newest book, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity, and about today’s major water problems, and solutions.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, speaks with author and water expert Sandra Postel about her newest book, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity, and about today’s major water problems, and solutions.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with U.C. Davis fisheries experts Peter Moyle and John Durand about the challenges and opportunities for restoration in the California Delta and a new roadmap to get us there.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with U.C. Davis fisheries experts Peter Moyle and John Durand about the challenges and opportunities for restoration in the California Delta and a new roadmap to get us there.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Ian Evans, Water Deeply’s community editor, speaks with Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor and John Fleck, the director of water resources at the University of New Mexico, about the status of this year’s snowpack, what that can tell us about the water year to come and how that fits with long-term climate change trends.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Ian Evans, Water Deeply’s community editor, speaks with Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor and John Fleck, the director of water resources at the University of New Mexico, about the status of this year’s snowpack, what that can tell us about the water year to come and how that fits with long-term climate change trends.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Philip Bachand, a water engineer and founder of the environmental engineering firm, Bachand & Associates, Daniel Mountjoy, the director of resource stewardship at Sustainable Conservation and Don Cameron, vice president and general manager of Terranova Ranch, about recharging groundwater and the crucial role that farms can play in this important effort.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Philip Bachand, a water engineer and founder of the environmental engineering firm, Bachand & Associates, Daniel Mountjoy, the director of resource stewardship at Sustainable Conservation and Don Cameron, vice president and general manager of Terranova Ranch, about recharging groundwater and the crucial role that farms can play in this important effort.

As California and other Western states begin to measure the (so far slowly) accumulating snowpack, we’re turning our attention to some of the biggest water issues that will be facing the region in 2018. What’s the fate of California WaterFix? Will California decide to allocate money to build its first big dam in decades? How will Western states cope with an increase in catastrophic wildfires and fund needed forest restoration? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California, and Kimery Wiltshire, CEO and director of Carpe Diem West, about big issues to keep an eye on in 2018.

As California and other Western states begin to measure the (so far slowly) accumulating snowpack, we’re turning our attention to some of the biggest water issues that will be facing the region in 2018. What’s the fate of California WaterFix? Will California decide to allocate money to build its first big dam in decades? How will Western states cope with an increase in catastrophic wildfires and fund needed forest restoration? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California, and Kimery Wiltshire, CEO and director of Carpe Diem West, about big issues to keep an eye on in 2018.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Kirsten James, the director of California policy and partnerships at Ceres, Lindsay Bass, the head of WWF's Corporate Water Stewardship Initiative and Marco Ugarte, the sustainability manager at MillerCoors about how water is used by food and beverage industries.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Kirsten James, the director of California policy and partnerships at Ceres, Lindsay Bass, the head of WWF's Corporate Water Stewardship Initiative and Marco Ugarte, the sustainability manager at MillerCoors about how water is used by food and beverage industries.

Effective water markets in California could help solve some of the state's water woes. So, why haven't they been widely implemented in the past, and what might a California water market look like in the future? In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, the managing editor of Water Deeply, discusses emerging water markets in California with Maurice Hall, the associate vice president of water for the Ecosystems Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, and Michael Kiparsky, the director of the Wheeler Water Institute at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information on water markets and water in the American West, visit www.newsdeeply.com/water and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Effective water markets in California could help solve some of the state's water woes. So, why haven't they been widely implemented in the past, and what might a California water market look like in the future? In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, the managing editor of Water Deeply, discusses emerging water markets in California with Maurice Hall, the associate vice president of water for the Ecosystems Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, and Michael Kiparsky, the director of the Wheeler Water Institute at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information on water markets and water in the American West, visit www.newsdeeply.com/water and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Marijuana legalization continues to gain support around the country. In just four years, five western states legalized recreational use of the drug, including California in 2016. But cannabis cultivation comes at a cost to local water. This is the playback of a 30-minute conversation led by Tara Lohan, managing editor of Water Deeply, with experts about how marijuana farms – both legal and illegal – impact California water, and how the increasing number of legal marijuana-growing operations in Southern California deal with limited water resources. For more information or water issues in California and the American West, visit www.newsdeeply.com/water and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Marijuana legalization continues to gain support around the country. In just four years, five western states legalized recreational use of the drug, including California in 2016. But cannabis cultivation comes at a cost to local water. This is the playback of a 30-minute conversation led by Tara Lohan, managing editor of Water Deeply, with experts about how marijuana farms – both legal and illegal – impact California water, and how the increasing number of legal marijuana-growing operations in Southern California deal with limited water resources. For more information or water issues in California and the American West, visit www.newsdeeply.com/water and subscribe to our weekly emails.