My new radio program, "The Environment Report," starts this morning on WYPR-FM, 88.1 in Baltimore.  It's scheduled to run at 9:35 a.m. every other Wednesday. 

I plan to discuss a wide range of subjects, from exotic species to efforts to fight global warming, as well as battles over pollution control laws in Annapolis.

If you missed it on the radio, you can listen to a digital recording of it on the WYPR web site by clicking here.

If you want to offer any feedback on the show, feel free to post comments on this blog.  Also, please let me know if you have any ideas for stories in the newspaper, radio features or things you'd like the community to discuss on the Bay & Environment blog.  You can contact me at tom.pelton@baltsun.com

The first segment, "Terrapin Man," was about Willem Roosenburg, a biologist who helped lead a lobbying effort to save Maryland's mascot, the Diamondback Terrapin. This spring, he and allies convinced the Maryland legislature to ban the trapping of the turtles, which were being increasingly harvested because of a growing market in China for Chesapeake turtle soup. 

When I wrote a profile of Roosenburg on this blog a few months back, he very modestly replied that he was part of a large group that protected the 'Terps.  In my radio essay, I referred to "Team 'Terp."  Roosenburg spelled out many of the important members of that team: "I want thank Tom for a very flattering story but there are many people who deserve credit for the success of this endeavor.  I have achieved a career goal but with the help of many people including Rick Stanley, Jack Cover, Virgina Clagett, Roy Dyson, Alex Seiss, Jeff Topping, Sandy Barnett, Vicky Poole, Tim Hoen, Norm Meadows and many others who helped direct the political process in the direction that my science indicated.  To these people I am indebted," Roosenburg wrote.