In this episode we explore the motivations for some of the seasonal closures on BLM Land on the Western Slope. We talk with four experts in land management and conservation and hear about what motivates them to help humans co-exist with nature in a way that does less harm to nature.

Delta County Administrator Robbie LeValley and Lindsey Mitchell, the county's Public Information Officer, talk with us about the updated land use code and new infrastructure projects.

In this episode, we explore the cultural shift our society is making around wildfires.

On this edition, we take a look back at some of our original KVNF stories that aired during our KVNF Regional Newscasts in 2024. While this isn’t a ‘best of’ series, it does represent a wide range of stories from July to December of this year.

On this week's Local Motion, we take a look back at some of our original stories that aired during our KVNF Regional Newscasts in 2024. While this isn’t a ‘best of’ series, it does represent a wide range of stories sandwiched between January and June 2024.

KVNF 2024 SALUTE TO AGRICULTURE: As this year comes to a close, KVNF takes a look back at a few KVNF Farm Friday segments in our 2024 Salute to Agriculture.

In 2024 KSUT and the Four Corners Water Center of Fort Lewis College hosted The Tribal Water Media Fellowship in which 11 young people explored the connection to water for themselves, their communities, and their cultures.

Dr. Nathan Perry, Professor of Economics Colorado Mesa University, shares an economic update for Mesa, Montrose and Delta Counties.

Project 7 Water Authority serves nearly the entire Uncompahgre Valley with reliable safe potable water for the valley's 60,000 residents. The Water Authority is proposing to build a new treatment plant to serve its 6 member's distribution systems, proposing to significantly improve the resiliency of the system, because the current system has many single points of failure.

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.