California’s 38 million residents need energy, and since they don’t want it from coal plants, communities in the West are trying to seize an opportunity to export their renewable energy California’s way. In this episode of Sounds of the High Country, KDNK’s Eric Skalac spoke to Judith Lewis Mernit who wrote about California’s energy needs […]
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KDNK Radio speaks with HCN reporter April Reese
Out in the Gila National Forest, ranchers and environmentalists are working together to protect endangered wolves… while also protecting ranchers’ livelihoods. In the current issue of the High Country News, writer April Reese investigates the surprising new strategy for endangered wildlife protection being tried in New Mexico. Her story is titled “Can a grazing buyout […]
Posted inNovember 25, 2013: Ecosystems 101
KDNK Radio speaks with Allen Best
Last year, when Amendment 64 legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado, it also legalized hemp. And since then, for the first time in decades, farmers around the state are considering growing the industrial fiber. On this episode of Sounds of the High Country, KDNK Radio’s collaboration with High Country News, Eric Skalac talks to reporter Allen […]
Posted inOctober 28, 2013: Lifeblood of the Delta
KDNK Radio speaks with reporter Krista Langlois
As Colorado voters consider a new education funding mechanism with Amendment, a decade-old law in Alaska is closing rural schools. On this episode of Sounds of the High Country, KDNK Radio’s collaboration with the High Country News, KDNK’s Eric Skalac talks to Krista Langlois. Past editions of Sounds of the High Country are at KDNK.org, […]
Posted inOctober 14, 2013: The New Geronimo?
KDNK Radio and Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock on Front Range floods
September’s massive flood devastated the front range town of Lyons, and recovery efforts there and in other affected communities are ongoing – even as a partial government shutdown threatened to pull National Guard members from essential work repairing roads and bridges. For the latest edition of Sounds of the High Country, KDNK’s Eric Skalac talks […]