Today on the news, we jump right into our Weekly News Reel, where we hear from local newspaper reporters about their latest stories in our region. Concerns over water supply are leading Moab City to create water restriction ordinances. Editor Doug McMurdo at The Times-Independent tells us more about their coverage of this issue, as well as the latest on the local fish refuge, and a new transient room tax reform bill. And (10:00), Grand County recently passed an ordinance clarifying that camping on private property outside of an established campground is illegal. Moab Sun News editor Maggie McGuire discusses its implications for marginalized locals, as well as a controversial highway that could impact desert tortoise habitat in southern Utah. Plus (19:00), our partners at KVNF speak with Eric Siegel from High Country News, who’s latest article profiles rural queerness in the West.

Show Notes:

Photo: Luna Anna Archey/High Country News

KVNF: Local Motion – The Latest From High Country News

https://www.kvnf.org/post/local-motion-latest-high-country-news#stream/0

Weekly News Reel Mentions –

The Times Independent

Water restrictions coming to Moab

https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/water-restrictions-coming-to-moab/

Final phase of wetlands project well underway

https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/final-phase-of-wetlands-project-well-underway/

Albrecht sponsors TRT reform bill

https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/albrecht-sponsors-trt-reform-bill/

Moab Sun News

What we mean when we say ‘camping’

https://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_1e05e968-619b-11eb-b471-3727d49ae0ec.html

Controversial highway offers protections for climbing area

https://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_b56876ea-619b-11eb-bf71-5f5c57d2aaf7.html

High Country News

Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado

https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.2/south-communities-meet-the-gun-toting-tenacious-unicorns-in-rural-colorado?fbclid=IwAR3bJnVWO3zFJc24dEyLoeztG4j9e2B0dTl6eK8WV2YwK3jmO-mU5O2rPiw