Over course of a few days last week, a group of ten runners traversed 360 miles from Bears Ears National Monument to Warm Springs Park in Salt Lake City. The run wasn’t a competition, or some sort of adventure challenge. The young Indigenous runners were moving across the state for healing, unity, and resiliency. Today on the news, we speak with Lynda Jim, a Diné activist and board chair of SLC Air Protectors about the Running as Medicine event. Plus, declining levels at Lake Powell – the second-largest reservoir in the U.S – have spurred officials in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, to search for ways to prop it up.

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Photo: Ten Indigenous runners recently brought prayers of healing from Bears Ears National Monument to Warm Springs Park in Salt Lake City. Credit Running As Medicine/SLC Air Protectors

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KUNC: Declining Lake Powell Levels Prompt Colorado River States To Form New Plan

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