Forest fires have made headlines as the climate warms, but less attention is paid to the growing number of blazes burning across sagebrush territory. Some of theses vital landscapes might never recover but for the help they’re receiving from an unexpected source—incarcerated men and women who are seeing a much brighter future thanks to the underappreciated shrubs.

How Inmates Are Saving an Iconic American Landscape—and Themselves

H2O Radio is journalism about water. We follow water wherever it leads us and report on what we find. We interview experts— from engineers and scientists to legislators and politicians in order to get the facts. But we also talk to ordinary folks to ask how water issues affect their lives. Why? Because we're all in this together. This is a conversation about water and our collective water future.

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