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Michael de Yoanna

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Mountain West News Bureau managing editor. Nat honors: @duPontAwards, Murrow (2x), SPJ, AP / Bikes / Guitars / Dogs 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇹

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How the Pamunkey Indian Tribe is protecting its land from rising seas on the East Coast. From "Our Living Lands" and the Mountain West News Bureau - boisestatepublicradio.org/en…
How the Pamunkey Indian Tribe is protecting its land from rising seas

How the Pamunkey Indian Tribe is protecting its land from rising seas

Across the country, rising seas are threatening Indigenous lands. The Pamunkey are dealing with both sea level rise and stormwater flooding. Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding spoke with two...

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Job Corps centers remain open, but their future is murky. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @HannaMerzbach - wyomingpublicmedia.org/educa…
Job Corps centers remain open, but the future is murky

Job Corps centers remain open, but the future is murky

A second federal judge ruled the vocational program can keep going, for now.

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With the anticipation of additional days of hot temperatures, more than 100 health organizations are calling on state leaders to take more action on extreme heat. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @racheld_cohen - kunc.org/regional-news/2025-…
Mountain West health groups ask states to act on extreme heat

Mountain West health groups ask states to act on extreme heat

The organizations delivered a letter to the National Governors Association, which meets this week in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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Study: Prescribed burning substantially reduces wildfire severity, smoke emissions. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @MurphyWoodhouse - boisestatepublicradio.org/en…
Study: Prescribed burning substantially reduces wildfire severity, smoke emissions

Study: Prescribed burning substantially reduces wildfire severity, smoke emissions

Prescribed burns are widely recognized as an effective wildfire mitigation tool. Now, using satellite imagery, land management records and fire emissions data, a team of researchers has put hard...

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Report: Mountain West states need policies to meet energy, water demands of data centers. From Kaleb Roedel - kunr.org/local-stories/2025-…
Report: Mountain West states need policies to meet energy, water demands of data centers

Report: Mountain West states need policies to meet energy, water demands of data centers

A new report shows the Mountain West needs to prepare for data centers, which are expected to demand massive amounts of energy and water. Experts say communities should adopt policies that prevent...

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How Montana is first in line in the Trump administration's plans to give states more control over national forests. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @HannaMerzbach - wyomingpublicmedia.org/natur…
The Trump administration is letting states have more control over national forests

The Trump administration is letting states have more control over national forests

Montana is home to the first agreement of its kind in the nation.

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What's next in the feds plans to eliminate the Forest Service’s nine regional offices, including those in Missoula, Mont., Lakewood, Colo., Albuquerque, N.M. and Ogden, Utah? From the Mountain West News Bureau's @racheld_cohen - kunc.org/regional-news/2025-…
USDA proposes closing Forest Service offices while moving more workers to the Mountain West

USDA proposes closing Forest Service offices while moving more workers to the Mountain West

The plan, released last week by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, would eliminate the Forest Service’s nine regional offices over the next year, including offices in Montana, Colorado, New Mexico...

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How the Karuk Tribe is helping to reestablish cultural burning as "common practice," helping forest health. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @MurphyWoodhouse - boisestatepublicradio.org/en…
With reforms in place, California’s Karuk Tribe works to reestablish cultural burning as 'common...

With reforms in place, California’s Karuk Tribe works to reestablish cultural burning as 'common...

For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely put an end to those practices, though the tradition endured. Now, Califo...

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Colorado and New Mexico fall short of funding to maintain bridges and roads, report finds. From the Mountain West News Bureau's Kaleb Roedel - kunr.org/local-stories/2025-…
Two Mountain West states fall short of funding to maintain bridges and roads, report finds

Two Mountain West states fall short of funding to maintain bridges and roads, report finds

A new report shows many states won’t have enough money to keep major roads and bridges in good repair over the next decade. Some states in the Mountain West are not immune to the problem, while...

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Bryan Kohberger, convicted of Idaho Four killings, will spend the rest of his life in prison. boisestatepublicradio.org/la…
Bryan Kohberger, convicted of Idaho Four killings, will spend the rest of his life in prison

Bryan Kohberger, convicted of Idaho Four killings, will spend the rest of his life in prison

Bryan Kohberger, the man who admitted to killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, has been sentenced to four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. Along with the life...

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Many southwestern communities are looking at importing specific kinds of trees in the battle against extreme heat. What they learn could be a model for other communities in our region. From the Mountain West News Bureau's Yvette Fernandez in Las Vegas - knpr.org/2025-07-18/communit…
Communities are planting more trees to combat heat. But how do they work to cool the environment?

Communities are planting more trees to combat heat. But how do they work to cool the environment?

There's more going on in trees than what most of us may know. Experts explain the science of trees.

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As wildfires rage across the country, federal officials raised the national Preparedness Level to 4. If things get more intense, that could mean calling on the military and other countries for help. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @MurphyWoodhouse - boisestatepublicradio.org/po…
We’re at Preparedness Level (PL) 4 this fire season. But what does that mean?

We’re at Preparedness Level (PL) 4 this fire season. But what does that mean?

The National Preparedness Level – or PL – system is a 1 to 5 scale that indicates how busy a season is. When determining the PL, officials consider fuel and weather conditions, current fire activity...

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The $1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting could hit small, rural newsrooms the hardest. From the Mountain West News Bureau - boisestatepublicradio.org/20…
The $1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting could hit small, rural newsrooms the hardest

The $1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting could hit small, rural newsrooms the hardest

Public radio and television stations in rural areas may soon be contending with big cuts. President Trump is expected to sign a so-called “rescissions” measure from Congress that will take back $1.1...

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Silver tsunami brings new challenges for end-of-life care. From Mountain West News Bureau reporter Jenny Kinsey in New Mexico - kanw.org/new-mexico-news/202…
Silver Tsunami Brings New Challenges for End-of-Life Care

Silver Tsunami Brings New Challenges for End-of-Life Care

NPR Affiliate Public radio from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Your source for news and music.

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Many southwestern communities in the Mountain West are looking at importing specific kinds of trees in the battle against extreme heat. What they learn could be a model for other communities in our region. From our reporter in Las Vegas, Yvette Fernandez. knpr.org/2025-07-18/communit…
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Many National Weather Service offices in the Mountain West's flash flood zones are short-staffed. From the Mountain West News Bureau's Kaleb Roedel - kunr.org/local-stories/2025-…
Many National Weather Service offices in the Mountain West's flash flood zones are short-staffed

Many National Weather Service offices in the Mountain West's flash flood zones are short-staffed

In recent weeks, destructive and deadly flash floods have hit several parts of the country, including the Mountain West. A New York Times analysis found the National Weather Service has vacant senior...

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Before it died, opposition to public land sale proposal flooded politicians' inboxes. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @racheld_cohen - kunc.org/regional-news/2025-…
Opposition to public land sale proposal flooded politicians' inboxes

Opposition to public land sale proposal flooded politicians' inboxes

The bill would have required the Bureau of Land Management to sell up to 1.2 million acres within five miles of population centers in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico,...

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The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on the ongoing battle over corner crossing in several states. That’s the act of stepping over private land to access parcels of public land. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @HannaMerzbach - wyomingpublicmedia.org/natur…
Landowner escalates corner crossing case to the U.S. Supreme Court

Landowner escalates corner crossing case to the U.S. Supreme Court

The Wyoming property owner is arguing it's trespassing to step over private land to access public land.

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The Big Beautiful Bill codified a 25% increase in logging on federal lands. From the Mountain Wedst News Bureau's @HannaMerzbach - wyomingpublicmedia.org/natur…
The Big Beautiful Bill codified a 25% increase in logging on federal lands

The Big Beautiful Bill codified a 25% increase in logging on federal lands

But a lot of industry representatives aren’t happy with portions of the law.

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Homeowners insurance is taking a big bite out of household incomes in our region. A new analysis shows it could be getting worse. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @MurphyWoodhouse - boisestatepublicradio.org/en…
Homeowners insurance is taking a big bite out of household incomes in the Mountain West. And a new...

Homeowners insurance is taking a big bite out of household incomes in the Mountain West. And a new...

Nationwide, the percentage of household income spent on homeowners insurance premiums nearly doubled between the early 2000s and 2022 – jumping from 1.2% to 2.1%. That’s according to recent analysis...

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