Heidi Kühn is our guest for this episode. Through the nonprofit organization Roots of Peace, which she founded in 1997, Kühn has led initiatives to restore agriculture in former conflict zones, restore soil health, enhance food security, support livelihoods and help sustain local communities with new sources of food and income.

Our guest today is Jason Grygla, Executive Director and Founder of Techie for Life. He’ll give a talk tomorrow at noon in the Dunford Auditorium at Utah Tech University in St. George. His talk is titled Neurodiversity: A Renaissance of Development and Needed Diversity. The talk is part of Utah Tech’s Trailblazing Speaker Series.

On this episode we talk with USU professor Tammy Proctor and several students in her sports history class about a project they’re calling Sliding Into History: The Legacy of USU Women's Softball Champions 1980 – 1981.

A relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in the Southwest. We talk about Westwater and its lasting significance to the Upper Colorado River.

We revisit our conversation with film producer and director Kerry Candaele, who is showing the first two documentaries of his Beethoven trilogy. We discuss the films as well as the global impact of Beethoven's music.

The receding waters of Lake Powell have returned some of the dam-inundated areas of the Colorado River Basin to a more natural state, while imperiling others. Mike DeHoff joins us to discuss.

On this episode we talk with the editors of Big Box USA, which presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the U.S. economy and its ecosystems in the last half century.

Today we revisit our conversation with the editors of the book 'A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation.' Our guests are editors Timothy Hemmis and David Head.

We talk with Wayne Wurtsbaugh, professor emeritus in the Watershed Sciences Department at USU and Jack Greene, nature educator and regular contributor to UPR’s Wild About Utah.

It’s another special Member Drive edition of the program and our guest is folklorist Lynne McNeill.