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Outdoors

  • A man with his back to the camera stands in the woods looking up at the trees
    Halle Zander
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    Aspen Public Radio
    Adam McCurdy, the forest and climate director for the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, is concerned that staff cuts in the U.S. Forest Service could make for a more severe wildfire season.
  • Kate Stafford
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    Oregon State University
    Scientists and Iñupiaq hunters have been counting bowhead whales passing by the northernmost American town, Utqiagvik, for the past two months. It is part of an effort to evaluate the health of the whale population up north – and support subsistence in the area.