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Steamboat Springs can close the Yampa River — a hotspot for tubing, swimming and fishing — when it's too low and hot. -
A new executive order, firings of federal scientists and proposed cuts to federally funded academic research has health researchers worried – including at the University of Wyoming. -
First responders are more likely to experience mental health conditions than the general public. This week, firefighters, police officers and therapy dogs met at a mental health conference in Casper to address the toll their jobs can take. -
For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely put an end to those practices, though the tradition endured. Now, California tribes have opened the door to a new era of cultural burning - a potential model for the rest of the West. -
The state epidemiologist says the highly infectious disease is likely spreading in Carbon County. But a 93% uptake rate of the MMR vaccine should help control bigger outbreaks. -
Researchers are working on the largest study of hail in the U.S. in 40 years.
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Today on the show, first responders from across the state gathered recently for a mental health conference. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab techs - almost all those professions get their first taste of science at college. A University of Wyoming professor speaks about what federal cuts could do to his program. And, we hear an artist translate a new mural at the Center of the West in Cody into sound. Those stories and more.
