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Rumors during the 2018 Lake Christine fire, which threatened Basalt and El Jebel, caused an unsafe environment for some Spanish speakers. Since then, Eagle County has devoted funding and a workforce to increase Spanish-language communication during emergencies. This is the final story in a three-part series about Spanish-language emergency alerts in the Roaring Fork Valley’s three counties — Pitkin, Garfield and Eagle — and comparing the level of communication services different agencies are offering.
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Efforts to provide Spanish-language alerts since the 2020 Grizzly Creek fire in Garfield County are underway, but the level of reliable and timely Spanish-language translations from local agencies during the next emergency could vary. This is the second story in a three-part series about Spanish-language emergency alerts in the Roaring Fork Valley’s three counties — Pitkin, Garfield, and Eagle — and comparing what different agencies are offering.
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The Pitkin Alert system run by Pitkin County’s dispatch center is a software that is used to notify residents directly during an emergency. But until now, it has only translated certain high-priority alerts in Spanish using Google Translate. This is the first story in a three-part series on Spanish-language emergency alerts in the Roaring Fork Valley’s three counties — Pitkin, Garfield and Eagle — and comparing what different agencies are offering.
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This story, a collaboration between Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism, is the second in a two-part series looking at the impacts of COVID-19 across six Western Slope counties. In Part 2, we explore how vaccinations proved to be an essential tool to prevent COVID-19 deaths.
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This story, a collaboration between Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism, is the first in a two-part series looking at the impacts of COVID-19 across six Western Slope counties. Challenges for health care providers included dealing with a transient community, staffing issues and public angst.
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A phenomenon called sudden aspen decline, which is driven by worsening drought and climate change, has been impacting the trees across Colorado. With that in mind, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing an effort called the White River Aspen Management Project. Specifically, the agency has identified 375,000 acres where it could potentially treat aspens with prescribed burns and tree harvesting.
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Hundred-year-old apple, apricot and even plum trees are scattered — and often abandoned — across the valley. That’s proving fruitful for some local food producers.
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Predictions from forestry experts show that local forests might change dramatically as beetle populations grow and as climate change worsens.