The Wild Hare

Series produced by Brian Bahouth

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The Wild Hare Podcast focuses on responses to problems in northern Nevada and Tahoe Sierra.

Brian Bahouth is host and producer along with several associate producers and editors. New editions will be published when they are ready.


28 Pieces

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President Trump rallies the faithful in Minden, Nevada
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Initially, hangar tenants at the Reno-Tahoe Airport planned to hold a campaign rally for Donald Trump, but the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority prohibi...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2020
  • Length: 12:21
Lake Powell Pipeline a “monkey wrench” in the future of Colorado River management
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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The Utah Board of Water Resources proposes to construct, operate and maintain the 141-mile long Lake Powell Pipeline, a project that would convey w...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 18:53
Washoe County School District Students for Change – school reevaluated
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Isabel Peralta is a recent graduate of Galena High School. Over the course of this summer, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and subsequent unre...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2020
  • Length: 12:21
Invasive barred owl encroaches on California spotted owl in the Sierra Nevada
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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The barred owl is native to the eastern United States, and it’s cousin, the spotted owl is native to the western US. Since the 1980s, western bird...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 12:23
The climatologically altered future of Lake Tahoe
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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During Tuesday’s online meeting of the interim Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Mar...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 16:49
A conversation with a Nevada “Patriot”
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Several weeks ago, Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley, in an open letter to the local library, insinuated that his officers would not respond to e...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 15:31
Militant Trump supporters attack BLM protesters in Nevada City, California
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Since the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, in small towns and large cities across the United States, Black Lives Matter p...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 10:23
Groundwater Pumping around Pahrump impacts Amargosa Canyon speckled dace
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Last week, the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect three populations of speckled dace in the D...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
The Las Vegas Water Grab is Dead …
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Ronald Reagan was president when the Southern Nevada Water Authority began buying water rights in rural Nevada and developing a plan to export the ...

  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 13:12
Madame Bella Cummins talks about her brothel during the COVID-19 outbreak
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Wells Nevada is halfway between Elko and West Wendover in far northeastern Nevada. There are five churches and two brothels in town, Donna’s and Be...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 11:51
Truck It! The past, present and future of trucking in Nevada
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Look around you, wherever you are, and I’d be willing to bet that all the human-made things within your view are there because of a truck, to say n...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2020
  • Length: 33:29
Reno is a winter sports town without an ice arena, for now
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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There is an informal skating ice emergency in northern Nevada. The only rink in all of northern Nevada and Tahoe Sierra where hockey and competitiv...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 1
The El Rancho Drive-in and Public Market is more than a place to buy used waffle irons, statues of Jesus and go-go boots
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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I bought silverware and a few plates at the El Rancho flea market when I first moved to Reno. I’ve been back innumerable times but not to buy anyth...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2019
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 1
Lithium Nevada is on schedule to begin Thacker Pass construction in 2021, a carbon neutral mine
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Lithium is rare. According to the US Geological Survey, the lightest of all metals makes up a tiny fraction of the Earth’s crust at .0007 percent. ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 27:13
McDermitt, Nevada Rising? A new rock shop, one of the state’s only outdoor cannabis grows, and nearby, the largest known lithium deposit in the United States
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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One of Nevada's most remote regions has long been an economic development sore spot, but there are some encouraging sings for remote McDermitt.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 21:46
Reaction to Elizabeth Warren’s town hall meeting in Carson City
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Elizabeth Warren conducted a town hall style rally in Carson City at the MAC recreation and sports facility, Wednesday evening, June 2, 2019. An e...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 13:14
  • Purchases: 1
Rare Paiute cutthroat trout reintroduced to native habitat, a 30 year saga for Bill Somer
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Bill Somer is a senior environmental scientist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In 1988 he joined the effort to reestablish the ...

Bought by KRZA and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 2
Nevada Conservation League 2019 Legislative Scorecard – a conversation with Andy Maggi
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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The Nevada Conservation League has released its 2019 Conservation Scorecard. The annual report scores the governor and legislators on their work th...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 1
A Glimpse of Reno's Bicycle Future
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Joanna Trieger and Andrew Samuelsen are regular Reno bike commuters and spokespeople for the Truckee Meadows Bike Alliance. Like anyone who rides i...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2019
  • Length: 18:04
  • Purchases: 1
World Human Powered Speed Challenge tests the limits of design and performance in Battle Mountain, Nevada for the 20th year
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Just outside Battle Mountain, Nevada, there is a perfectly straight, flat, 5-mile section of State Route 305 that has been specially resurfaced to ...

Bought by Radio Newark and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 13:06
  • Purchases: 2