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Moab City’s new dark skies ordinance aims to lower light pollution and achieve an International Dark Sky Association standard. But what does this mean for residents who need to bring their properties into compliance within five years? In our spotlight on the Moab Sun News, editor Maggie McGuire explains. And later, Public Lands Corner host Chad Niehaus returns with several excerpts from a new federal memo about electric bike use on public lands.

[Photo: Canyonlands National Park dark skies, Credit: NPS/Emily Ogden]

Moab City’s new dark skies ordinance aims to lower light pollution and achieve an International Dark Sky Association standard. But what does this mean for residents who need to bring their properties into compliance within five years? In our spotlight on the Moab Sun News, editor Maggie McGuire explains. And later, Public Lands Corner host Chad Niehaus returns with several excerpts from a new federal memo about electric bike use on public lands.

[Photo: Canyonlands National Park dark skies, Credit: NPS/Emily Ogden]

*Saturday Extra* Local resident Rory Tyler has spent years studying a twenty foot long snake petroglyph and its important astronomical markers. He will share his decades of experience at the Moab Museum next week. KZMU’s Christy Williams spoke with Tyler to learn more about his observations and this sacred site.

*Saturday Extra* Local resident Rory Tyler has spent years studying a twenty foot long snake petroglyph and its important astronomical markers. He will share his decades of experience at the Moab Museum next week. KZMU’s Christy Williams spoke with Tyler to learn more about his observations and this sacred site.

KZMU News welcomes Carter Pape, staff writer for The Times-Independent, to the studios for a discussion on the paper's latest coverage. This week - USU makes a big financial ask of Grand County for its new campus, and local elected officials want to solve the traffic problem at Arches National Park - with the community. Plus, an analysis of local traffic accidents on Highway 191 - where the hotspots are and preliminary data. Tune in.

KZMU News welcomes Carter Pape, staff writer for The Times-Independent, to the studios for a discussion on the paper's latest coverage. This week - USU makes a big financial ask of Grand County for its new campus, and local elected officials want to solve the traffic problem at Arches National Park - with the community. Plus, an analysis of local traffic accidents on Highway 191 - where the hotspots are and preliminary data. Tune in.

It’s tough to find a river in the West that still behaves - like a western river. One that rises and falls with the rush of melting snow. Most of the region’s major streams are controlled by dams. That makes the relatively free-flowing Yampa River in northwestern Colorado unique. As Luke Runyon reports, the people who depend on it are wondering how best to protect the river as the West’s water grows more scarce.

[Photo: Rafters float past Steamboat Rock at the confluence of the Yampa and Green Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument. Luke Runyon/KUNC]

It’s tough to find a river in the West that still behaves - like a western river. One that rises and falls with the rush of melting snow. Most of the region’s major streams are controlled by dams. That makes the relatively free-flowing Yampa River in northwestern Colorado unique. As Luke Runyon reports, the people who depend on it are wondering how best to protect the river as the West’s water grows more scarce.

[Photo: Rafters float past Steamboat Rock at the confluence of the Yampa and Green Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument. Luke Runyon/KUNC]

For the first time, there is now credible evidence that at least one American marten – and likely more – live in the La Sal Mountains. The mammal was spotted at high elevation by a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources trail camera. This is a big find, because state biologists weren’t quite sure if the marten’s range extended into the La Sals. And later in the news, the public protest period opens for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument management plans. Tune in.

For the first time, there is now credible evidence that at least one American marten – and likely more – live in the La Sal Mountains. The mammal was spotted at high elevation by a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources trail camera. This is a big find, because state biologists weren’t quite sure if the marten’s range extended into the La Sals. And later in the news, the public protest period opens for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument management plans. Tune in.