Nell Larson
Producer/ Co-HostCo-host of KPCW's This Green Earth.
Nell Larson has been the director of Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter since 2013, but has been a co-host of This Green Earth since 2009. Prior to her role as director at Swaner, Nell acted as Conservation Director, where she focused on the restoration and management of the 1,200 acre nature preserve, implementing projects geared toward stream restoration, water quality, wildlife habitat, and trails. Nell grew up in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. She completed her undergraduate degree at Yale, as well as her master of Environmental Management with a focus in ecology at the Yale School of Forestry. Outside of work, Nell loves to ski - both Nordic and alpine - sail, hike, travel, kickball, and generally take advantage of Utah's great outdoors.
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James Johnston is a research associate at Oregon State University and the co-author of a paper about the benefits to forest health when mechanical thinning is combined with prescribed burns. -
As fire and drought rage across the West, and severe hurricanes and flooding hammer the south and east coast, climate change is front and center, yet…
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On This Green Earth, Nell Larson and guest host Katy Wang talk sustainable tissue.Tissue maker start-ups disrupted the marketplace in the last year by…
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On This Green Earth, Nell and Chris talk about why our overnight lows are not so low anymore. Across the continental US this summer it was unusually hot,…
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On This Green Earth, Kimberly Hersey, Mammal Conservation Coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife comes on the show to talk with Nell and…
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On This Green Earth, Brian Tonetti, Executive Director of Seven Canyons Trust, joins Nell and Chris to talk about the opening of Three Creeks Confluence…
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On This Green Earth, Robert Dewey, vice president for government relations with Defenders of Wildlife joins Nell and Chris.Dewey comprehensively breaks…
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On This Green Earth, Nell and Chris bring birder Nate Brown on the show.Brown is a local bird authority, and he gives us the scoop on all the different…
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On This Green Earth, co-host Nell Larson has just returned from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.She and Chris talk about what she experienced during…
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On This Green Earth, Zach Frankel with Utah Rivers Council talks about the Great Salt Lake.This important body of water is now registering at an all-time…
