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Preparing for Wildfire Season

May 1, 2015

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Forecasters predict that spring and summer this year in New Mexico will be wetter than normal. That’s a good thing for many reasons, such as reducing the likelihood that the state will see large forest fires this season. But state forester Tony Delfin told NMiF producer Sarah Gustavus that now is not the time for…

Drilling Deep: Local Reporter Explores new oil and gas Development

April 24, 2015

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This week, journalist Laura Paskus joins us in studio to talk about what she has learned while reporting on new oil and gas development in northwestern New Mexico. Her series “Drilling Deep” is currently airing on KUNM. Oil and gas development is an important source of income for the state, but some citizens of the Navajo…