Arson Explored + Fruit Fly Fears




The Jefferson Exchange show

Summary: <p>The Jefferson Exchange: May 06, 2013, Hour 1:</p><p><b> <span class="headlinetext">Arson Explored</span> </b><br><br> The figures on arson can be staggering… more than a thousand deaths or injuries in a year, along with more than half a billion dollars worth of property damage across the country.  This week is <a href="http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/prevention_education/strategies/arson/index.shtm" target="_blank"><strong>Arson Awareness Week</strong></a> across the country, a chance to get reacquainted with arson and its effects.</p><p>+</p><p><b> <span class="headlinetext">Fruit Fly Fears</span> </b><br><br> You can say this much for nature: change is constant.  If you grow fruit for a living, the stuff that could have destroyed your crops last year might not be an issue this year.  But something else will be.  The fruit fly known as <a href="http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/release/2013/04/fruit-damaging-fly-could-hit-record-population-northwest-year" target="_blank"><strong>Spotted-wing Drosophila</strong></a> appears to be growing in strength in Southern Oregon, a major fruit-growing region.  You'll hear the numbers and projections.</p>