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Wildlife biologist Bill Vetter and Western Rivers Regional Program Manager with AudubonRockies Abby Burk look and listen for birds in the early morning hours in an irrigated pasture in Grand County. They are heading up a bird monitoring program that aims to learn how birds use irrigated agriculture.
Photo by Heather Sackett / Aspen Journalism
KREMMLING In the gray light of dawn, hundreds of swallows darted over a pool of standing water in an irrigated field along the Colorado River. The birds were attracted to the early-morning mosquitoes swarming the saturated landscape. Bill Vetter, a wildlife biologist with Wyoming-based Precision Wildlife Resources, methodically counted the birds. For six minutes, he marked down every bird he saw or heard at eight locations across the ranch, 250 meters apart.
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KUNC Wins Sigma Delta Chi Award From The Society Of Professional Journalists
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In the News Series category, KUNC was honored for a collaborative series that was reported and produced by KUNC reporter Luke Runyon, Aspen Journalism s Heather Sackett, KJZZ s Bret Jaspers and the Nevada Independent s Daniel Rothberg.
Cash Flows: How Investors Are Banking On the West’s Water Scarcity, looked at how the tightening water supply has attracted the attention of a new actor in some water-stressed pockets of the West: the private investor. The broadcast stories were edited by Runyon and Larson. Jackie Hai designed and edited the online multimedia presentation.
Cash Flows also received a first place award in the Top of the Rockies contest for best Multimedia Story and a third place for Enterprise Reporting. The regional contest includes journalists in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. It’s sponsored by the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.