The Mountain West News Bureau is a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Nevada Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUNR in Nevada, KUNC in Colorado and KANW in New Mexico, with support from affiliate stations across the region. Funding for the Mountain West News Bureau is provided in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Like hundreds of other ranchers in Colorado, the Stanko family is anxious about wolf packs being airlifted back to this state, where they were eradicated by the 1940s.
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Changing climate patterns and growing populations are having an impact on all of our lives, but it is also affecting birds and their migration patterns.
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The alarming signs of climate change are all around us: devastating fires destroying whole communities, new temperature records set only to fall the next year, glaciers disappearing in real time. It's an overwhelming problem, but some have turned to e-bikes as one way to do their part to stave off the worst effects of our still-changing climate.
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The invasive snail, recently discovered in the largest alpine lake in the Mountain West, can spread incredibly fast because it multiplies by cloning itself. One female can produce over 40 million offspring in a single year.
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Last year, Wyoming lost 500,000 acres of farm and ranch land, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In the Mountain West, more than seven million acres have disappeared in the past decade, mostly in Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico.
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Grey wolves are one of the most controversial animals in the West, and how you can manage the species depends on what state you're in. Along the Colorado-Wyoming border, that friction is part of daily life.
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Un informe indica que el 24% de los latinos en EE.UU. tienen dificultades al hablar español. Este artículo explora las experiencias de los latinos con el idioma.