The photo at the top of the page was from an interview with CBS Sunday Morning on the 2025 Los Angeles Fires. Below is a sampling of the interviews and lectures I’ve done over the years.
Morro Coast Audubon Society – Saving Birds from Window Collisions: Simple Solutions for a Big Problem (2025)
Light Pollution and Terrestrial Wildlife: Research Into Practice (2024)
Historical Ecology as a Guide to the Lost and Remnant Vegetation Types of the Los Angeles Basin (2024)
For underlying reports and collaborators, see www.lalandscapehistory.org
Urban Light: Preserving Dark Skies in LA County (2024)
Illuminating the Night (2023) – National Academy of Sciences Distinctive Voices Series
Caltrans Research Connections: Effects of LED Lighting on Terrestrial Wildlife (July 2023)
Light at Night: A Glowing Hazard (November 2022)
Light Pollution and Birds – World Migratory Bird Day (October 2022)
Interview on LEDs and light pollution with Alex Cohen on “Inside the Issues”
Greater LA (KCRW): Birds are dying by flying into buildings. Can architects solve the problem?
Rarities and Relicts: Historical Ecology as Guide to the Los And Remnant Vegetation Types of Southern California
47th Annual Southern California Botanists Symposium: Conservation and Floristics of California’s Rare and Relictual Ecosystems, Saturday, October 16, 2021
Lighting’s Impact on the Natural World
Light Pollution and Wildlife Movement
Protecting the monarch: Small steps can make big impact to save majestic butterfly
Todo lo que Brilla no es Oro
Night in the City: LA After Dark
This conversation brings to light the history of electricity in Los Angeles and the positive and negative impacts it has on all living things. It is an evening talk as part of the series Night in the City: L.A. After Dark. Coproduced by the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
Urban Wildlife Podcast
Greening Urban Futures Podcast
Geodesign Summit 2019
AIA|LA 2019
SoCal Connected – It’s Not Easy Being Green
South of Fletcher
How do we thrive in less-than-ideal living conditions? In this episode Rux and Bear talk with CA State Parks certified interpretive specialist Luis Rincon, ecological historian Travis Longcore, and longtime Frogtown/Atwater resident Liz Vega about disturbance at the Bowtie and its surrounding communities.
The Pulse podcast from WHYY (Unintended Consequences)
https://whyy.org/episodes/unintended-consequences/ (at about the 30 minute mark)
NPR’s Living On Earth: LED Impacts on Wildlife
USC Earth Day – Facebook Live
Live discussing light pollution on KCBS AM 740 News Radio
November 29, 2017
Community Groups, Scientists Work to Stem Tree Loss
The Effects of Light Pollution on California Natural Parks
KCET – Lost Wetlands
//players.brightcove.net/136368194/V1xBaDVb6l_default/index.html?videoId=4728756153001
Breaking Bio Podcast
Reclaiming the Night Participant Profile
Blinded By The Light, Birds Crash Into Radio Towers (NPR, All Things Considered)
http://www.npr.org/player/embed/154959104/154959078
Highlights: Envisioning Drought Resilient Cities
Envisioning Drought Resilient Cities
Forward to 1:02:23
KCET – The Fate of Feral Cats (2012)
https://www.kcet.org/shows/socal-connected/the-fate-of-feral-cats-0
Travis Longcore 