Tape 18: With Kirsite Wrigley, Elk River Flooding

Authors

Contributor

Julia Butterfly Hill

Geraldine Goldberg

Episode Description

G: ...and we will talk with Julia Butterfly who is high atop an ancient redwood tree for 190 days, hi Julia.

J: Hello there Geraldine.

G: Boy, 190 days.

J: Yes, it is a, the time gets lost so much here, but when it reached a six-month mark that was pretty amazing. It kind of marked a specific amount of time I have been here. Half a year, and it kind of hit me.

G: It’s, it’s incredible. What else can I say? You know, I want to say too that when we spoke last week, you mentioned about how brown the river beneath you has become. When we got off the air, a listener called me and asked me why is the river brown and I thought that was a pretty good question. So, I have done some research and I have talked with several scientists, who work for local governmental agencies. What they have been telling me, it is really hard to measure, hard to gauge, why a certain river is getting browner or more turbid as the term is used. To measure that in an objective, scientific manner, but what they are impressing upon me is that the antidotal evidence, of a long time residence for instance, watching the changes in the river over time, is what’s really important. So, I want to say right now that I am very thrilled to be joined live from Sacramento, Hello?

K: Hello?

G: Is this Kristy?

Broadcast Date

6-18-1998

Filename

19980618

Language

English

Digital Format

MP3

File Size

10.9 MB

Duration

13:42

Collection

KHSU

Recommended Citation

"Tape 18: With Kirsite Wrigley, Elk River Flooding" (1998). Julia Butterfly Hill Interviews. 18.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/juliabutterflyhill/18