Amy Hadden Marsh

Kirk Siegler is NPR's go-to guy when stories of the West rise to national attention. He got his start in public radio in Colorado, as a reporter for two years in the Roaring Fork Valley at Aspen Public Radio, and 7 years reporting from Colorado stations including KUNC.Kirk Siegler talked to KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh about life as a roving reporter for NPR covering the vast Western landscape and the stories behind the stories you hear on NPR.

The proposed Spring Valley Ranch Planned Unit Development in its current form is off the table. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh has this update.

The Bureau of Land Management has cancelled its contract with the Department of Corrections, effectively shutting down the Wild Horse Inmate Program by the end of November. Amy Hadden Marsh speaks with Carol Walker, a longtime wild horse advocate, on what this means for the far and immediate future.

Close to thirty people attended a Sun Day event in Carbondale over the weekend, organized by 350 Roaring Fork, to celebrate solar energy. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh spoke with one of the speakers, 18-year old Roaring Fork High School senior Anasophia Brown, about her plans to do something about the impacts of climate change. Here, she talks about what woke her up to a warming planet.

Carter Niemeyer is a wolf expert with more than 40 years of experience. He was part of the federal team that reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho in the '90s and was on the Technical Working Group that advised Colorado Parks and Wildlife during the Wolf Restoration and Management Plan process. He has written two award-winning memoirs about his career with U.S.D.A. Wildlife Services and will be in Carbondale this weekend for workshops and a book signing. He sat down with KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh earlier this week to talk about wolves among humans and what made him go from Wildlife Services to wolf advocacy.

The KDNK News Team brings listeners local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.

In late July the City of Glenwood Springs hosted a virtual town hall webinar on homelessness. The meeting came about a month after a fire broke out in a rugged gully northeast of Walmart, causing a nearby apartment building to be evacuated. Although the fire lasted less than a day and reached only one and a half acres in size, its proximity to the town and likely origin in a homeless camp caught officials’ attention. The panel included Glenwood’s Chief of Public Safety, Fire Marshall, Parks and Recreation director, the District Attorney and Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario.KDNK reporters Lily Jones and Amy Hadden Marsh and News Director Marilyn Gleason all attended the Zoom meeting separately. In Part 2 of our reporter's roundtable, Amy Hadden Marsh digs into the private property inhabited by the unhoused at the Palmer Fire, and Marilyn Gleason remarks on law enforcement's 'revolving door.'

In late July the City of Glenwood Springs hosted a virtual town hall webinar on homelessness. The meeting came about a month after a fire broke out in a rugged gully northeast of Walmart, causing a nearby apartment building to be evacuated. Although the fire lasted less than a day and reached just one and a half acres in size, its proximity to the town and likely origin in a homeless camp caught officials’ attention. The panel included the Glenwood Springs city manager, Chief of Public Safety, Parks and Recreation director, and fire Marshall, District Attorney Ben Sollars, and Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario. Today the KDNK news team invites you to our reporters’ roundtable discussing takeaways from that meeting. News director Marilyn Gleason was joined by Amy Hadden Marsh and Lily Jones. Part 1.

If you want real-time information about wildfires across the West, there’s an app for that. It’s called Watch Duty. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh recently sat down with Watch Duty staff to find out what makes Watch Duty tick.