Category: Regional Roundup

This week on the Regional Roundup, we’ll hear about the formation of a new federal agency: the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, and a report on so-called “death cards” found in abandoned vehicles following rumored ICE activity near Vail, Colorado. We’ll also check in on an avalanche training program in Wyoming, and efforts underway to reintroduce wolverines to Colorado. Plus, a look at the dismantling of a beloved gathering place for some locals in Moab by the Bureau of Land Management, and we wrap up the show in Park City with a look at the Sundance Film Festival, the final year the festival will call Utah home before moving to Boulder, Colorado, next year.

This week on the Regional Roundup, we’ll pay a visit to the First Peoples’ Festival, which took place in Estes Park, Colorado, from January 16 to 18, 2026. The three-day event brought together Indigenous artists, educators, and community members for fashion, art, dance, and storytelling. We learn about a program that teaches high school students trade skills, and puts those skills to work building affordable housing. We’ll also take a closer look at the Colorado River Basin, where the U.S. Department of the Interior has released a draft environmental impact statement outlining potential paths forward for managing the river and its two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. We’ll round out the show with a conversation with the filmmaker behind a new documentary examining the crisis in local journalism.

This week’s Regional Roundup, we’ll hear voices from vigils and protests around the region after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. We’ll hear from a former National Forest supervisor on the challenges facing public lands and what the future might hold. Then, a conversation with a conservationist about efforts to restore wild buffalo to Indigenous lands, and we finish the show with a BLM archaeologist who tells us about efforts to preserve and conserve the region’s rich archaeological history.

Last week on the Regional Roundup, we heard about a new workforce housing initiative in Western Colorado. We look forward to next month’s Winter Olympics happening in Italy with a renowned local ski racing coach, and we heard about critical minerals and the possibility of mining them here in the United States.