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Today, we explore a curious solar phenomenon that occurred from 1645 to 1715.

Writer Katie Klingsporn has a warning to women in Wyoming: The doctor is out and you're on your own. Rural health care—never adequate—has deteriorated in Klingsporn's state: Three hospitals have closed birthing centers, forcing women to travel long distances for medical care. Wyoming isn't unique, she adds: Fewer than half of the rural hospitals in America even offer labor and delivery services.

This week's episode features a conversation with Dr. Heidi Steltzer. Dr. Steltzer is a Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO where she’s been teaching for the last 15 years. She's been living in and studying Colorado since 1994., She founded the Heidi Mountains Cooperative, a non-profit field station & retreat center in Cortez, Colorado that honors science and faith as ways of knowing. Heidi is a Master’s student in Theological Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver., Dr. Steltzer is a lead author for the chapter on High Mountain Areas in the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. She studies how environmental changes affect mountain watersheds and Arctic ecosystems and their link to our well-being. She has spent 25 years conducting field studies on mountain and Arctic hillslopes in Colorado, Alaska, Greenland and recently China. She’s pioneered studies on the impacts of earlier snowmelt through experimentally accelerating snowmelt and monitoring plant and ecosystem responses. Her field studies lead to an experiential approach to higher education, in which she creates opportunities for student-led inquiry into environmental issues. Dr. Steltzer earned her BS in Biology at Duke University. Her doctorate is in Ecosystem Ecology from University of Colorado at Boulder. Find her on social media @heidimountains. Recent Honors: Witness before the US House Committee Science, Space, and Technology for the U.S. House of Representatives for the hearing on: An Update on the Climate Crisis: From Science to Solutions, Powerhouse Science Center Honoree, Durango, Colorado, 2020, 2019.

KVNF's Laura Palmisano takes us to the tiny mountain town of Lake City, Colorado to ice climb with a group of adaptive athletes.

This episode features a discussion on food security and new state programs for grant and funding opportunities for small and large scale farmers and retailers. Colorado's Commissioner of Agriculture, Kate Greenberg, also talks about climate change and how it relates to current Agriculture in Colorado. 

Here are some links to the state programs mentioned in this interview:
 1. Colorado's Community Food Access Program 2.
Colorado's Soil Health Program
 3. Colorado Department of Agriculture Job Opportunities

Two miles from Moab, Utah, a developer is forging ahead on building 580 varied, luxury houses and a business park. But there's problem: the 180-acre site is on a sandbar projecting into the Colorado River, and writer Mary Moran saw this floodplain completely flooded in 1984. In any case, she adds, Moab needs housing for working people, not high-end luxury homes.

KVNF's weekly call in gardening show.

Now its time for Rain & Shine, your weekly Regional Science update.

Today we ask the question, who am I doing this for?

Cole Buerger is running for the Democratic Primary in Colorado’s Senate District 5. A fifth generation Coloradoan, says he cares deeply about the communities in the district and wants to shake up the status quo. He will be facing Montrose Mayor Barbara Bynum in the Democratic primary on June 25, 2024.