Rocky Mountain Community Radio Regional Roundup

Rocky Mountain Community Radio (RMCR) is a coalition of non-commercial radio stations in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Member stations broadcast diverse news and music programming. KHEN is a proud member!

RMCR collaborates to produce news and enterprise journalism that connects our communities. In the Spring of 2022, RMCR hired a new Managing Editor and Producer to help coordinate news journalism collaboration and content distribution through our region. These Regional Roundup segments are a result of this collaboration, and are produced by Maeve Conran.

On this week’s Regional Roundup, we hear about efforts to repeal the Roadless Rule, which protects national forests, and reaction from public lands advocates in Wyoming. Then, we hear from the Southern Ute Tribe about its objections to a proposed mine in the La Plata Mountains. We’ll also hear about the challenges of recycling in rural Colorado, and then we head to Wyoming to learn how volunteers are tracking the American pika. And we round out the show with a look at how drought is affecting farmers across the region, and the impact it’s having on the mental health of agricultural workers.

You can listen to previous episodes here.