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To limit damage Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been increasing its efforts to detect the bivalve since it was first discovered in the state in 2022.
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KUNC’s In The NoCo is a window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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Courtesy of Marion Clement / Bird Conservancy of the RockiesA leading conservation organization says owls need a hand – and they’re rolling out a program to do it. The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is about to launch a project to get homeowners along the Front Range to place boxes in their backyards where owls can live. -
Courtesy of Julian Resasco / CU BoulderClimate change impacts many facets of nature – including the timing of when wildflowers, bees and other species emerge in the spring. A new study out of CU Boulder finds that some plants and pollinators on Pikes Peak have fallen out of sync with each other.
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Trident Booksellers and Cafe hosts a weekly event that provides a welcoming space for people to connect through language. -
Taylor Swift’s new album arrives Friday -- and if you can’t get enough Taylor Swift right now, In The NoCo found a local story about her that might surprise you. It’s about a course at CSU that uses Swift’s lyrics to teach students the art of translating English into Spanish. We talk to the professor who created the course, and hear some Spanish-language versions of Swiftie favorites. -
A group of nonprofits is calling for reductions to water demand, changes at Glen Canyon Dam and more transparent negotiations. -
Colorado investigators are reviewing the 2005 shooting death of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, which was ruled a suicide. -
Recent federal immigration enforcement operations in Routt County have raised questions about how ICE is communicating with local law enforcement. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Steamboat Pilot reporter Emma Pilger and then read the entire Steamboat Spring article at the link below. -
No one blinked. So much of the federal government has shut down. Congressional Republicans and Democrats remained dug in their positions.
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Birthright citizenship laws could be different in each Mountain West state after the U.S. Supreme Court reduced judicial powers. -
Farrell Hayes represents something that veteran firefighters say is harder to come by these days: a young person who wants to get involved in firefighting. -
Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, is said to have accepted a plea deal. -
Over the weekend, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) withdrew his proposal for the Bureau of Land Management to sell parcels for the highest value. This follows several rounds of revisions and narrowing down aimed at keeping it in the bill after it ran afoul of Senate rules. -
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office provided an update late Sunday night on the fire and shooting that happened on Canfield Mountain. -
The Trump administration’s proposed budget bill would cut funding to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by nearly 40%, including grants to universities. That could affect funding relied on by survey offices in several Mountain West states.
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