Brody Wilson
Program Director and News DirectorBrody is a Montrose local that grew up in the Uncompahge Valley, and recently moved back home with his wife and son after several decades away. After a career in energy efficiency, and corporate sustainability, he decided he'd climbed the corporate ladder high enough, and embraced his love of audio and community, and began volunteering for KVNF, first as a Morning Edition Host, then board member. Brody decided he couldn't get enough KVNF in his life and recently joined the staff full-time as Staff Reporter, and Morning Edition host. You can hear him every morning between 6:30 am and 8am.
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Jenny Williams spent nearly nine years inside Google and Microsoft before leaving for New Zealand. Her new thriller strands six writers on an island competing for a publishing prize. One of them is an AI. She talks with Brody Wilson about temptation, theft and transparency.
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The Gold Mountain Fire has grown by a single acre in ten days, and evacuation zones are slowly standing down. But crews are still on the mountain undoing their own fire lines — and the burn scar will be a dangerous place to walk for months.
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Blue Mesa Reservoir is at a record low, and federal managers have cut minimum flows on the lower Gunnison to hold what's left. On Local Motion, Colorado River District engineer Caleb Foy walks KVNF's Brody Wilson through how that decision was made — and who is paying for it downstream.
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Blue Mesa Reservoir is at a record low for late July, and federal managers have cut minimum flows on the lower Gunnison below the floor set in 2012. KVNF's Brody Wilson looks at what that means for endangered fish, Uncompahgre Valley farms, and the Black Canyon.
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Monsoon rain lifts containment on the Gold Mountain and Elk fires but sends debris flows across US 550, figures show the drought deepening, teams summit all 58 fourteeners Saturday, Delta County's school board revisits its legal RFP, the state certifies its primary, and beavers go to work in Garfield County.
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Rain buys the Gold Mountain Fire crews a rest and lifts Elk Fire evacuations, Delta courts a state partnership to revive an old power building, Montrose's County Fair and Rodeo turns 140, a new handbook supports wildland firefighters' families, and a dry year tests Palisade's peach growers.
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Colorado's Upper Basin conservation program takes shape, wildfire takes a bite out of Ouray's summer, Delta County's new superintendent hits the road to listen, and Montrose City Council fights over a spot on the November ballot.
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Days ago it was the Ouray County Fairgrounds. Now it's a town of nearly a thousand people, a kitchen serving 900 breakfasts a day, its own medics, showers, laundry and security. KVNF's Brody Wilson and Audrey McCabe, go inside the incident command post for the Gold Mountain Fire.
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