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Regional Roundup

The Regional Round Up is brought to you by Rocky Mountain Community Radio (RMCR) managing editor, Maeve Conran. RMCR is a coalition of non-commercial radio stations in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Member stations broadcast diverse news and music programming. This half hour show highlights the unique work being done by RMCR statoins.

  • Episode 61 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: a story on using stilts to pick peaches in Palisade; catfishing at nighttime; a mounted patrol unit in Jackson, Wyoming; recent Ute games for young people and rafters tackling the fabled rapids of Cataract Canyon in Utah, excerpted from Sound of Rushing Water documentary.
  • Episode 60 of the Regional Roundup features: A two way (from the archives) with former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm who spearheaded the opposition to the Winter Olympics in Colorado; bird watching in Telluride; an audio postcard on fire flies; and Dark Sky communities.A two way on the Gunnison Valley Observatory. (KBUT)
  • Episode 58 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: Students from Ignacio headed to Space Camp in Alabama, a keynote speech on the intersection of psychedelics and neurodiversity from the recent Aspen Psychedelics Summit and a two way with a researcher on how trees have memory.
  • Episode 57 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: A story on using an augmented reality app to get kids outdoors; a two way on a swords to ploughshares non profit from Colorado Springs that turns guns into gardening tools; and a two way with a man from Kurdistan who now lives in Salt Lake City, he shares his experience of being a refugee in honor of June being National Refugee Awareness Month.
  • Episode 56 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: Why a landslide has resulted in the catastrophic failure of a major thoroughfare connecting Westering Wyoming and Eastern Idaho; the impact on drivers of the ongoing US 50 closure; a Writers on the Range commentary on what resort towns can learn from Aspen; a two way on the need to have Pride celebrations in rural communities; and a feature on a self defense class in honor of Pride month.
  • Episode 55 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: A two way with the author of Killdozer on the twentieth anniversary of the armored tank rampage in Granby, Colorado, and the disinformation that persists; a feature on increasing tree canopy in one Denver neighborhood; and a feature on an all female wildland fire fighter crew.
  • Episode 54 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: KZMU's Emily Arntsen about her three-part series on a cold case in Moab that may soon be solved; a two way with the ED of the Earth Law Center in Durango which works around the world and with Indigenous partners in the US to enforce the rights of nature; and an interview with author Erica Berry about her new book Wolfish: Wolf, Self and the Stories We Tell about Fear.
  • Episode 53 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup features: A two way with a survivor of a Japanese American prison camp in Wyoming on the need to remember this history; a two way with a refugee advocate who herself was part of a wave of thousands of Vietnamese refugees who came to Colorado between 1975 and 1990; and an interview about films featured in Māsima: Pacific Islands Film Tour, a recent film festival that took place in Salt Lake City.
  • On Episode 52 of the Rocky Mountain Regional Roundup we hear: A feature about an immersive theater production that aims to heal the historical trauma of the Sand Creek Massacre; a two way with Dr. Anne Giesen, a gerontologist with 20 years of hospice care about end of life choices; and an interview with Holly Carlin who is terminally ill and Jude Higgins, a death doula about having a peaceful death.