Morning Edition for Friday, October 4th with Brody Wilson, Lisa Young and special guest former KVNF News Director Gavin Dahl.

FEATURE: On today’s Farm Friday, we highlight the Mountain Harvest Festival held last weekend Paonia. The three day event celebrates local music, art, farms, food and spirits. The event is organized by the North Fork Valley Creative Coalition, a local nonprofit organization.

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Your weekly Regional Science update.

FEATURE: The League of Women Voters of the Uncompahgre Valley hosted a candidate forum for Delta County Commissioner race last weekend. Craig Fuller, running unopposed for District 2, and incumbent Republican Commissioner Wendell Koontz and challenger Independent Niko Woolf running for District 3 were present for the one hour forum.

FEATURE: Last month, High Country News, Paonia Books, and KVNF hosted a panel discussion about Building Durable Conservation in Colorado and the West. It was an intimate evening at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts. KVNF's Brody Wilson has more.

For 40 years, writes Ben Long, biologist Diane K. Boyd studied the return of wolves to the West, first at Glacier National Park where they trickled in from Canada. Then she moved to Montana's North Fork of the Flathead River, a place so wild and remote that when wolves colonized it on their own, they joined grizzlies, lions, wolverines, lynx and more. The major lesson she learned through the years was that entanglements with humans, especially the ones who wished wolves had never come back, made her job difficult: "Wolf management is people management. Period," she writes in her new memoir, A Woman Among Wolves – My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery. Her hope, she says, is for a more tolerant world: "We can live without wolves, but the world is a much richer place with wolves in it.”

FEATURE: The Colorado River doesn’t have enough water for all of the farms and 40 million people who depend on it. But other parts of the country have water in abundance. So why can’t we just solve the Southwest’s water crisis by piping in more from the East? KUNC’s Alex Hager has the answer.

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