KDNK's Morgan Neely has Monday's news, including a recap of 2022’s fire season, and a look at a surprising threat to bighorn sheep populations in the west. Also, there's some tension among law enforcement agencies in the Roaring Fork Valley after Pitkin County elected a democrat as sheriff. In Denver, the state legislature’s largest Black caucus ever led a commemoration to Martin Luther King, Jr. in front of a joint session of the House and Senate last week. And, a new database reveals that museums and universities across the U.S. still hold the remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans — despite a federal law passed more than 30 years ago to help return these remains to tribes.
Monday, January 16, 2023
![A helicopter flies in a bighorn sheep, which dangles feet below the chopper. Researchers are trying to protect the Jackson herd of bighorns from pneumonia, which has killed off wild sheep for decades.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5c2e2f5/2147483647/strip/true/resize/880x^/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F90%2F62%2F7a48585343b5a5d0045d62e9dd26%2Fbighorn-sheep-helicopter.jpg)
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