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Some favorite authors offer their suggestions for summer reading, plus host Rachel Barenbaum has some books by New England authors to recommend.

Linda talks with Scott McGraw, a physical anthropologist, about the extinction of a monkey called Miss Waldron's Red Colobus, whose native habitat is West Africa. The last documented sighting of the red colobus was 20 years ago. McGraw says the monkey was hunted and eaten which is one reason for its decline. Also, there is so little of the West African rain forest left, that there's not enough habitat to support the red colobus. McGraw is an assistant professor of anthropology at Ohio State University. He specializes in West African monkeys.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on the large number of federal regulations that the Clinton administration is issuing during its last days in office. Among the most controversial are: banning road building and logging in millions of acres of federally owned forests; restricting the sulfur content of diesel fuel; protecting the privacy of medical records; setting federal standards for organic foods; and holding employers liable for ergonomic injuries. President Clinton says the new regulations have been in the works for a long time, and they aren't last minute initiatives.

Idaho Gov. Jim Risch on Wednesday announced he has asked the federal government to redesignate 85 percent of the state's "roadless" areas in National Forest land to allow some development and logging. He submitted the petition despite a federal court ruling Wednesday that overturned the Bush administration's program to allow states to manage their own roadless areas.

Space rocks the size of softballs crashed into Earth recently and were scattered throughout a forest in a town in Maine. If you find a big piece, a museum is willing to pay you $25,000 for it.

Dignitaries like President Clinton, first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah spoke at the memorial service at Wake Forest University.

Even though the Black Forest Fire in Colorado burned homes down to their foundations, it didn't destroy everything. The Samaritan's Purse helps homeowners search the ashes.

President Trump flies to California and blames only forest management for the damage instead of climate change. A whistleblower says some detainees in ICE custody are forced to have hysterectomies.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that ten years ago this week, the Chernobly nuclear reactor exploded in the densely forested planes of Ukraine. It spewed a cloud of radioactive gas into the atmosphere that -- according to the United Nations -- contaminated more than 100-thousand square miles of land and affected nine million people in some way ... Among them were hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Ukraine and Belarus. About one thousend of them...all children...came to Israel for medical treatment under a program sponsored by a religious organization called khah-BAHD. Gradstein tells us how those kids are doing.

Linda speaks to Dr. Eric Danell (dah-NELL) of the Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in Uppsala (oop-SAHL-ah) Sweden. He says he's found a way to grow the hard-to-find chanterelle mushroom in controlled conditions. The mushroom has previously only been found in the wild. He says some of the details are secret, but that it was his love of eating chanterelles that led to his research. From now on, they can be grown on farms. They need a live host to survive, unlike many other mushroom species that grow on decaying material.