Listen to the Interview http://openrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Monsoon-Drought.mp3 The annual North American Monsoon accounts for most of our region’s annual rainfall. The “summer rainy season,” as it’s also known, runs from late July to...
Listen to the Interview Mark Duggan talks to Darrah Blackwater about her work to bring fast internet to tribal lands. http://openrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Darrah-Blackwater-Tribal-Broadband.mp3 Darrah Blackwater sees radio waves as a natural resource....
Community gardens give people who rent or are otherwise unable to plant a garden on their property a chance to invest in locally-grown foods. Community solar gardens operate on the same model but allow investors to “plug in” to locally-generated renewable...
Spring is an important time for bees and other pollinators. They awaken from their winter slumber and begin looking for food. That means browsing early-season flowers like dandelions and starting the swarming process around their queen. We may consider dandelions to...
Miles from any metropolitan areas, the region around the monument is one of the darkest places in the lower 48 states. Now it’s been officially recognized for its lack of light pollution by the International Dark Sky Association. I spoke with Sonya Popelka, who...
One of the oldest captive golden eagles in the world, well-known to visitors at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, passed away in mid-May, apparently of a sudden illness.I spoke with ACES’ Naturalist Director Jim Kravitz, who was the bird’s...
