Colorado Public Radio Staff

Marsha Semmel, former president and CEO of Colorado’s Women of the West Museum, on the museum’s recent merger with the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles.

Author James Goss talks about his research on the Southern Ute Indians and why he is now returning his research materials to a museum in southwest Colorado.

State climatologist Roger Pielke with the Atmospheric Sciences department at Colorado State University on the state’s worsening drought.

Colorado rancher and guide Ray Heid on how the discovery of chronic wasting disease in wild deer along the Western Slope impacts those who rely on hunting to earn a […]

Summit County Commissioner Gary Lindstrom on Congressman Mark Udall’s “Good Samaritan” bill, allowing organizations to clean up contaminated mine sites without accepting legal liability.

Laura Carlson talks to Greg Felt with the Outfitter’s Association about a controversial amendment that went before lawmakers this session requiring anyone floating through private property to hunt or fish […]

Reid Haughey, executive director of the Aspen Valley Land Trust, on preservation of the Independence mining town site as Forest Service land.

Laura Carlson continues her conversation on private property floating rights with Jim Idema of the Creekside Coalition.

Mark Rey, undersecretary for natural resources with the U.S.

Aurora’s Alyssa Stanton on training to become a rabbi and the first black woman to be ordained in a major branch of American Judaism.

Also on the Bush “charter forests” plan, Mike Anderson, resource analyst with the Wilderness Society.

East High School senior Kwame Spearman and Littleton High School senior Amy Kramer talk about serving on a panel that measured student achievement.

David Williams with Citizens Against Government Waste and co-author of a study that recently ranked Colorado behind every other state in the amount of “pork barrel” spending brought home by […]

Denise Denton of the Colorado Rural Health Center in Denver on helping rural communities find and keep doctors.

Bryan Willson, associate professor in the Colorado State University department of mechanical engineering, talks about advising an award-winning team to develop a cleaner burning snowmobile engine.

Ross Vincent, national policy analyst with the Sierra Club, on plans to destroy mustard agent at an army chemical depot in Pueblo.