gray wolves

• CDC investigated elder care facilities in Mesa County, where unvaccinated staff are believed to be bringing COVID-19 to work
• CPW held public input session on wolf reintroduction in Montrose
• For 3rd time in 3 years, buying water from Ruedi Reservoir to offset low streamflow in Colorado River
• School District 51 hires new director of equity & inclusion
• Families in Colorado are already benefiting from advance child tax credit payments
• Paradise Theatre to screen new doc Where We Belong by local filmmaker Teya Cranson

On this week's Local Motion, KVNF's Kate Redmond speaks with High Country News correspondent Nick Bowlin about his article on energy companies leaving Colorado with billions of dollars in oil and gas cleanup. Plus, KVNF's Gavin Dahl hears from HCN associate editor Paige Blankenbuehler about the ideas suburban second graders have for helping CPW manage the reintroduction of wolves.

• Delta County School District seeks public input on proposal to combine students into fewer campuses
• Utah Montessori school backtracks on allowing parents to opt students out of Black History curriculum
• KVNF's Kate Redmond talks to Pete Kolbenschlag about new interactive map launched by Colorado Farm Food Alliance
• Capitol Coverage reporter Scott Franz explores the challenges faced by Colorado wildlife officials as they begin controversial process of bringing gray wolves back to the state, as mandated by voters

• Montrose Planning Commission approves HUB housing development with conditions
• CASA completes capital campaign for new Delta facility
• Paonia in Motion campaign launches to enhance public spaces
• Gray wolf collared by CPW before fleeing back to Wyoming
• Senator John Hickenlooper announces 4 committee assignments
• Mountain West News Bureau: Among the right-wing groups taking part in the insurrection on January 6th, Oath Keepers was founded in our region

• New federal lawsuit challenges Fish & Wildlife Service de-listing gray wolves from Endangered Species list
• Colorado Parks & Wildlife begins phasing in reintroduction of gray wolves, as approved last election
• Littleton man Patrick Montgomery becomes 4th Coloradan arrested since insurrection in Washington
• Kori Stanton: 9th annual Western Colorado Food & Farm Forum goes virtual this Friday & Saturday
• Luke Runyon: Scientists investigate what happens when a river's headwaters goes up in smoke

• Firefighters are finally gaining ground on area wildfires
• The Pioneer Town Museum in Cedaredge hosts Sunday Farmer's Markets
• Delta County Democrats launching a mobile campaign HQ
• Local reservoirs are shrinking in the heat
• CPW biologist sees gray wolf pup
• Colorado to distribute millions in coronavirus aid to small businesses
• KOTO's Julia Caulfield reports Shakespeare in the Park must go on