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Print The Woodwork Career Alliance, booth #1979, invites AWFS Fair attendees and exhibitors to test their spray finishing skills using the SimSpray VR training apparatus. NELLYSFORD, VA – The Woodwork Career Alliance of North America immensely looks forward to reconnecting with the wood products industry at the AWFS Fair in Las Vegas, July 20-23.  “We are thrilled to participate at the AWFS Fair,” said Scott Nelson, president of the WCA. “I imagine the show will feel like a big industr...

© David Meltzer Evolutionary biologist Greger Larson flanks a whiteboard in his office at Oxford as he and his co-authors "turn it into a palimpsest" in November 2018 for their PNAS study. Human events are marked in blue and dog events in orange, with northeast Asia on the left and North America on the right. Co-author David Meltzer says its "what scientific convergence sometimes looks like." The study uses newly discovered archaeological sites and human-genome work to assert connections stret...

If these walls could talk … That expression came to mind the other day while standing outside J.P. Small Park, the baseball stadium at the corner of 8th Street and Myrtle Avenue in Durkeeville. If walls could talk, which ones in Jacksonville would you want to hear speak? It’s tempting to say the walls of the Florida Theatre, with all their stories of Elvis and others who’ve passed through. Or maybe some of the crumbling walls of ruins in the Timucuan Preserve, with stories of the people w...

As Greg Larson begins a new position with the Bureau of Land Management, representing Eagle County, the work he performed in his former position is being challenged in federal court. In an effort to “align the BLM Colorado’s fire units to improve public and wildland firefighter safety, as well as create more efficient, logical geographic, and geopolitical boundaries,” the Bureau of Land Management realigned its district boundaries in Colorado in the fall of 2020, creating a new Upper Col...

Department of Interior Deputy Secretary Katharine MacGregor visited Grand Junction on Monday, where she announced new rules to increase rural access to broadband internet and toured the Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Air Services facility, which provides aircraft to fight wildfires. MacGregor began her day touring a broadband site before announcing the changes at the BLM headquarters in Grand Junction. The proposed rule changes are intended to make it easier for the industry to place ...

The 2021 mushing season took another step forward with the K300 Holiday Classic on Sunday, Jan. 10. The race was originally delayed by the pandemic and

BLM Colorado names new district managers after district boundaries realignment Northwest Colorado District to be led by Elijah Waters and Upper Colorado River District to be led by Greg Larson LAKEWOOD, Colo. – District managers have been hired for the Upper Colorado River and Northwest districts after a successful realignment of BLM Colorado’s district and fire unit boundaries to improve safety and efficiency.   Elijah Waters has been selected as the new district manager for the Northw...

Delta County officials are working on playing a role in 77-year-old Montrose resident William Babbel’s efforts to upgrade a flagpole along U.S. Highway 50, a move aimed at ensuring Babbel’s project long outlives the man himself. The county is in discussions with Babbel and the Bureau of Land Management about being named in the right-of-way permit the agency has agreed to grant so Babbel can erect a 20-foot flagpole in Delta County on the east side of the highway between Grand Junction...

to stand with that decision. >> there has been talk that lawmakers are considering taking this decision to court, but as of late this afternoon. democratic lawmakers have gotten together to consider their options. they are still hoping to reach a deal with republicans. >> lawmakers arent the only ones feeling the heat. we wanted the sunshine, and here it is in a big way. the bay area continues to swelter with triple-digit heat in some places. a beautiful live look right now at the tran...

the barge is partially blocking the entrance to the saint francis yacht club. the u.s. coast guard said that barge was taking on water so they grounded it intentionally. there are reports the barge may have thousands of gallons of fuel on board and may be leaking. pollution investigators in fact are on the scene. there is no timeline on when the barge will be moved. no injuries were reported. well, some new hope for a bart extension into san jose all thanks to a boost from the feds. ...