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MICHAEL DUNNE: I’m Michael Dunne. It will surprise absolutely no one that Amazon is an enormous company that relies on massive fulfillment centers to serve customers. What may surprise some people is that Amazon is planning to build such a facility right here in Eugene—surprising because, according to reporting, the company kept those plans under wraps and didn’t even use its own name to secure the land.
Today on the show, you’ll hear from a small group of people who believe this Amazon facility would be bad news for Eugene and want to keep the company out of the community. Then, in the second half of the show, we’ll hear from an Oregon State University researcher about how the return of wolves to Yellowstone is changing the behavior of their chief rival, the cougar…