Bodies of two experienced hikers found after pair went missing on hiking trip; 2026's particularly bad wildfire seas; Delta County School Board passed a ban on transgender students participating on sports teams aligned with their gender identity

Your weekly Regional Science Update.

6000 Road in Montrose County closed indefinitely due to flooding; Colorado farmers and ranchers looking to hire extra help next year could qualify for up to five thousand dollars in state funding; Tina Peters' travel raises questions about parole; The list of states authorizing the storage of carbon dioxide thousands of feet underground is growing; Miss Shirley brings story hour to Gunnison

In early September, President Trump signed an executive order that continued to rely on big-bad-wolf myths. He claimed that living in wolf country is “very dangerous.”He then directed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to determine whether gray wolves and Mexican wolves should lose federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Without waiting for an answer, he also directed Burgum to support Congressional removal of gray wolves from the endangered species list.

Montrose County focused on next year's budget; Montrose Police Department searching for missing manInside the 2026 Uncompahgre Powwow

An interview with artist Kelly Moody at the 25th annual Mountain Harvest Festival in Paonia, Colorado.

Delta County School Board bans transgender students from participating in sports that align with their gender identity; Montrose pastor arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse; Taking farmland out of production can impact wildfire mitigation; Flower dyeing at the Mountain Harvest Festival

EMERGING FORM is a biweekly podcast about the creative process. Join Christie Aschwanden and her co-host, the poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, as they discuss creativity, usually over a glass of wine.

One of the super-powers of mindfulness is that we get to observe our thoughts and let go of the ones that don't serve us. We learn that our thoughts are not who we are, we don't have to believe them and that we are the ones who create them, so we can just as easily choose to uncreate them.