Today, co-hosts Larry Warren and Pam Wylie first talk with Charles Mann about his seminal work, “1491″,which gives radically new views about the New World before Columbus. Now comes “1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created”, and how how the world has changed by the movement of foods, metals, plants and diseases between the new world and both Europe and China. Then, Darren Blackford, an entomologist in the Forest Health Protection section of the U.S. Forest Service and Keith Clapier, the Park City Arborist discuss saving the Western forests from the ravages of beetles.
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