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Spring weather is finally here in Laramie, and that brings about the annual ritual of yard and gardening questions for our locally-greening landscapes. What trees to plant? Where? How?

School is officially back in session across Wyoming, and we all know what that means: assigned reading is on the horizon for a whole bunch of students.

Over the summer, the first two women were granted tenure in soil sciences at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Karen Vaughan and Dr. Linda van Diepen have dedicated time to looking at what diversity looks like in their field. Wyoming Public Radio's Ivy Engel sat down with both of them to discuss why the soil sciences field has historically had diversity difficulties. Dr. Karen Vaughan started on women's participation in the field.

For KHN Walden, Colorado, has no hospital and no pharmacy, only a small clinic. The clinic stocks basic medications to handle routine acute needs, but residents also band together to help one another pick up prescriptions when they head out on the hourlong drive over mountain passes to Laramie, Wyoming, or Granby or Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The building that once housed the last drugstore in this town of fewer than 600 is now a barbecue restaurant, where pit boss Larry Holtman dishes out smoked brisket and pulled pork across the same counter where pharmacists dispensed vital medications...