KHOI

Originally broadcast 07/20/2016
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Themes of waterways, wildlife, and especially birds weave through this show, beginning with the visit of Bill Stowe, director of Des Moines Water Works, to Ames on Monday, to discuss water quality. ICCI organizers are launching a campaign for a moratorium on hog confinements, saying that the state has reached saturation, with 7 hogs for every 1 person.

Summer intern Isaac Biehl explores the Pokemon Go! phenomenon with ISU student Tate Huckstadt; meanwhile our Local Talk engineer Jonah DeGeest catches a pidgey and pidgeotto in our studio. Evidently, our radio station provides good habitat for these imaginary birds.

Wildlife correspondent Pat Schlarbaum tells us of the Iowa DNA’s work in this 18th year of bringing osprey back to Iowa, and the many types of volunteers who are involved in the project. Young birds are taken from nests in osprey-rich Minnesota at an age where they are old enough to eat a fish on their own, but young enough not to remember their Minnesota roots.

Speaking of native birds, Nevada poet Jennifer L. Knox tells us of her crowd-sourced poetry project, Iowa Bird of Mouth, by which anyone can add words / lines / verses to a poem created each month about 12 different birds of Iowa. The project starts this September 1 with the American Goldfinch, Iowa's state bird.

Originally broadcast 07/15/2016
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Wright County officials are entertaining Prestage Farms' bid to locate its 10,000-kill hog processing plant near Eagle Grove (population 3500). Wright County Economic Development director Bryce Davis, along with county supervisor Karl Helgevold, spell out some of the details of the agreement and why they think it's a good fit for the rural county. Jess Mazour of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement describes a meeting she had with 50 local opponents of the slaughterhouse and their concerns. The first public hearing will be July 25.

Kay Puttock begins the show with an interview of Marissa Conrad, director of Primary Health Care, this month's honoree in KHOI's Community Service Appreciation Program.

Alex Fejfer of the Ames Historical Society narrates the many starts and stops of the city's efforts, in the 1920s and then in the 1940s, to get reliable passageways across Squaw Creek, from downtown to campus. This in anticipation of the re-opening of the 6th Street bridge on August 1.