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  • 1 week ago | knau.org | Melissa Sevigny

    A childhood story about the disappearance of a Costa Rican toad sent Trevor Ritland on a quest. The Flagstaff writer and documentary filmmaker tells the story in his new book, The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species. He'll celebrate his book launch at Bright Side Bookshop tonight at 6pm. Tell me when you first heard about the golden toad. I first heard about the golden toad in a story from my dad when I was like five or six years old. He was a biology teacher.

  • 1 week ago | knau.org | Melissa Sevigny

    The desert rises to what seems like an ordinary hill, until you hike to the edge and see the mile-wide hole in the ground. Two Canadian geologists, Sharini Kanni Suresh Babu and Ashka Thaker, stand on the crater’s edge. "We are looking at a lot of white stones which are shocked Kaibab," Kanni Suresh Babu explains.

  • 2 weeks ago | knau.org | Melissa Sevigny

    Local agencies now have a new tool to speed up wildfire response… AI-powered cameras. Arizona Public Service plans to install 30 of them by the end of the month. In the forest west of Flagstaff, wildfire mitigation supervisor Brian Kelley offers real-time look at how the technology works. You’re expanding your camera network with this new kind of camera that uses artificial intelligence. Tell me how those ones work.

  • 3 weeks ago | knau.org | Melissa Sevigny

    Federal agencies have finished digging out a side channel below Glen Canyon Dam that's been a breeding ground for nonnative fish. The -12 mile slough is a shallow, mostly disconnected part of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Since March officials with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and National Park Service have worked to reconnect it to the main channel to bring in colder, faster, water. That should discourage nonnative species from breeding there.

  • 1 month ago | knau.org | Melissa Sevigny

    Work has begun on a long-awaited wildlife overpass on Interstate 17 south of Flagstaff. It’s the first of three intended for the area, which wildlife biologists say will dramatically reduce car crashes with elk and other animals. KNAU's Melissa Sevigny spoke with Jeff Gagnon of the Arizona Game and Fish Department at the construction site. KNAU: "Tell me where we’re standing right now and what we’re looking at.

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