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Native American flute player R. Carlos Nakai performed in Durango recently as part of Symphony Chaco: A Journey of the Spirit. KSUT's Tami Graham talked to him about the performance. He also played several short pieces on flute and bird bone whistle.
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Voices From the Edge of the Colorado Plateau
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The Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribal chairmen gave their annual address to the Colorado state legislature last week as part of the celebration of Ute Day at the capitol. It’s the tribes’ second annual address to the state.
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During Women’s History Month, the Women’s Resource Center, a nonprofit in Durango, celebrated ten women who work as community organizers in La Plata County.
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Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.
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The goal is to make voter registration easier and more accurate. But the new addresses have had other benefits, like faster emergency response times and better mail service.
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Prescribed fires and mechanical thinning efforts are increasingly common land management tools intended to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. However, research into their long-term effectiveness is somewhat limited. A recent study looked at the effects of such interventions over more than 20 years on a dry, low-elevation research forest in Montana and found that the combination of thinning and burning was the most likely to reduce fire risk.
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A recent paper explored the challenges exacerbated by climate change faced by Latino farmworkers in Idaho, which are comparable to the issues faced by such workers across the West.
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Weather is one of the most important and dynamic factors at play in wildfires, and it is the job of incident meteorologists to provide up-to-date forecasts so that the crews and managers can stay safe and accomplish their management goals.
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KSUT and the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College are teaming up to bring Franti's Togetherness Tour to the Four Corners. Tickets on sale now.
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