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KVNF's Lisa Young interviews Natasha Leger, Executive Director for Citizens for a Healthy Community located in Paonia, Colorado and Lea Linse , Conservation Programs Manager for Ecoflight, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and advocating for the protection of remaining wild lands and wildlife habitat using small aircraft.

Ranching is a foundation of the US West and The Western Slope, and has been for more than a century, but the way we raise beef cattle has been industrialized over the last half century. A local rancher is flipping the script on the industrialization of the cattle industry - pioneering new (and old) ways of thinking about raising cows.

Today KVNF's Marty Durlin brings us to the Hands Off protests that organizers say millions of people around the country turned out for. Some 1500 people participated in the Montrose event and there were 2500 in Grand Junction. Paonia attracted 150.

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In this edition of Local Motion, we talk with Kris Stewart, Delta County's Emergency Manager. Stewart provides an overview of the county's emergency management office's role and responsibilities. Local Motion is KVNF's weekly public affairs program. It airs Tuesdays evenings at 6 and Saturday mornings at 10:30.

Designers, models, artists and musicians have been working for months in preparation for MYTHOS: The Paonia Fashion Show coming up on April 11 and 12 at the Paradise Theatre.

“Doing this book took me out of my comfort zone, into new fields I wasn’t comfortable with,” says Alex Hutchinson, speaking of his newest book The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map. And so it is we speak with the expert on exploration about his own experiences of exploring in creative practice. Why are we drawn to what we don’t know? How do we know when enough is enough? When is it better to build on what we know than launch into new territory? And what of that revelation that seems to stay just beyond our grasp?

This week on Local Motion, we explore a powerful tool that landowners on the Western Slope are using to protect the open space we all value: conservation easements.KVNF’s Brody Wilson talks with Ilana Moir from Colorado West Land Trust to understand how conservation easements work—and why they’re becoming more popular. Then we hear two powerful stories from local landowners: Peter Slaugh, who protected 7,500 acres of scenic wildlife habitat near the North Fork, and Darold and Christy Hawk, a multigenerational ranching family who used an easement to secure their legacy in Crawford.Whether you’re curious about land conservation or just love a good story, this episode brings heart, history, and local perspective to an issue that impacts us all.

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Sweitzer Lake upgrades expand water recreation