The Canyonlands Research Center offers a paid summer internship to Native American students interested in conservation. Today on the news, we visit students as they tour Dugout Ranch on the border of Canyonlands National Park. Used by the Ute and Navajo tribes and later by white ranchers, the land now helps educate and train the next generation of conservationists. Plus, a county in Southwest Colorado is working with an unusual partner to tackle the area’s noxious weeds – goats. And later, a group of tribes in the Colorado River basin is asking for more of a voice in negotiations about conserving the river’s water amid historic drought. 

// Show Notes:

// Photo: Students from Canyonlands Research Center's NATURE (Native American Tribes Upholding Restoration and Education) program at Dugout Ranch near Moab. KZMU/Justin Higginbottom

// Canyonlands Research Center: Native American Tribes Upholding Restoration & Education

https://canyonlandsresearchcenter.org/programs/nature

// KSUT Tribal Radio: Ecological land management and preventing fires with goats

https://tribalradio.org/ecological-land-management-and-preventing-fires-with-goats/

// KUNC: Tribes in the Colorado River basin say they’re ‘in the dark’ as states discuss water conservation

https://www.kunc.org/environment/2022-08-05/tribes-in-the-colorado-river-basin-say-theyre-in-the-dark-as-states-discuss-water-conservation