Justin Higginbottom

It's a mystery why dozens of horses are being found dead with gunshot wounds on public land near the Navajo Nation in Utah.

The caves on the bank of a stretch of the Colorado River outside of Moab have drawn drivers’ gaze for decades. They’re a quirky part of local history, but will change as the land was sold to a developer.

Among Utah’s wild horses roam a special breed with a history stretching back to Spanish colonialists. They've remained isolated in a mountain range near the Nevada border for hundreds of years... which helped keep their bloodline intact. As the Bureau of Land Management rounds up the herd to protect rangeland health, some say this breed shouldn't be treated like your average mustang.

New research has uncovered more on the history of Moab pioneer William Grandstaff. The Black cowboy made his home on the Colorado plateau in the late 1800s.

The Canyonlands Research Center in southeastern Utah, is in its second year offering a paid summer internship to Native American students interested in conservation.

Things are looking better on the surface of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action, or UMTRA, site just outside of Moab, Utah. Piles of waste from an old uranium mill are growing smaller. But under the surface there is still uranium-contaminated groundwater. Now there might be a solution for that, with technology proven successful in Colorado.

The Rocky Mountain region is experiencing more wildfires in the midst of drought and high temperatures. And more of those blazes are being caused by people as our population grows. The job of fire investigators has never been more important. They track down the spark that can lead to prosecutions and their work provides crucial data for studying fire causes.

Demand for lithium, used in electronics such as batteries, is growing. This is prompting companies to explore deposits across the country, including the Paradox Basin in southeastern Utah.

There’s a growing number of observers finding a connection with solar events and some rock-art panels. The study of these interactions is called archeo-astronomy… or cultural astronomy… or ancient astronomy.

In Utah, a fight is brewing over water rights on the Green River, the chief tributary of the Colorado River. Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s Justin Higginbottom spoke with an attorney to break down the situation.