Today the European Green Belt is a stretch of rich and flourishing land in Western Europe that extends north to south for thousands of miles. However, during the Cold War the strip was a no-man鈥檚 land that separated the Soviet Union from non-Soviet countries.
Fences and even landmines scattered the border prohibiting any human development. The European Green Belt is one of many examples of places that accidentally became a nature preserve because of the Cold War. Host Frank Stasio talks with , professor of environmental history at Boise State University, about how the Cold War influenced conservation.
Brady will give a lecture tomorrow at Duke University in Durham at 5 p.m. called 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
