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Wilderness Workshop is organizing a volunteer restoration project this Sunday September 18th. Elk populations are in decline in the valley. To restore prime elk calving habitat along the Government Trail between Buttermilk and Snowmass, they want help removing barb wire from old fences. Learn more and sign up at WildernessWorkshop.org.
The Colorado River District’s annual water seminar takes place in Grand Junction today. The theme is Adapting the West to the Colorado River’s New Normal. Journalist Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica will deliver the keynote. His controversial news series Killing the Colorado, was adapted into a film now available on the Discovery Channel. If you missed KDNK’s interview with Lustgarten last month, check it out.
The only medical clinic in Paonia closed its doors last month. For the latest Sounds of the High Country, KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh talks to reporter Paige Blankenbueler. Her article in the current issue of High Country News is about how rural health care in Colorado is, or isn’t, meeting the needs of an aging population.
Dire warnings about loss of jobs if Colorado voters raise the state's minimum wage sound like cries of wolf to some economists. Eric Galatas reports.