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This is your KVNF Regional Newscast for Tuesday, March 4th.

Many people are reeling as cost-cutters in the Trump administration wade into land management agencies and indiscriminately fire people. This is no way to sensibly evaluate workers and no way even to save money as the federal workforce accounts for only 4% of the annual budget, writes Riva Duncan. The big guns in terms of spending are Medicare, Medicaid and the Department of Defense, which together make up 60% of the budget.Duncan, a 32-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service, knows many of the workers recently fired. She tells about two of them, both recently hired for their “dream” jobs, and now recently let go for reasons they found insulting and not based on evidence. “The land and people will suffer from [this] if nothing is done,” one told her.

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On today’s KVNF Farm Friday, we feature the Rimrocker Ranch near Nucla. This interview conducted by Brody Wilson took place during the Western Colorado Soil Health, Food and Farm Forum last month.

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President Donald Trump's policy of demonizing workers who are here illegally and rounding them up while indiscriminately firing people from federal agencies has rocked Washington, D.C., and the nation. Combined with new tariffs and rising inflation, this chaotic beginning signals a rough economic road ahead, writes Dave Marston—one that won't be good for non-billionaires.

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Many decades ago, bonemeal as a garden fertilizer source was rich in nutrients and did a fine job in promoting plant growth. It was treasured for providing organic phosphorus and nitrogen. But newer bone meal processing techniques now remove bone meal’s nitrogen, available phosphorus and other nutrients. The remaining phosphorus in bone meal is also slower to break down in our alkaline soils. With most of the nitrogen and micronutrients gone, bone meal is not a great fertilizer for the money. Fortunately, using quality compost in your garden usually provides adequate levels of phosphorus.

A large crowd greeted School Board officials at a meeting February 25th at the North Fork High School.

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