Kirk Siegler
speaker
267 appearances
46 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 19 Aug
Kirk Siegler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The quarter-century-old roadless rule bans logging on tens of millions of acres of pristine national forests, though there are carve-outs for wildfire prevention work.
Republicans on the powerful Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee want a full repeal, though.
Its chairman, Mike Lee of Utah, has gained national attention for pushing to sell federal public lands, which in a hearing caught the ire of Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell.
The GOP push coincides with the Trump administration's recent plans to repeal the roadless rule by administrative action.
That's how it was originally created by President Clinton in 2001.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News.
Geopolitics is just the latest stress for farmers like Justin Sherlock, who grows soybeans and corn in North Dakota.
He's going into his fourth straight spring planting season in the red.
The only way most farmers are still able to get a loan from the bank is because land prices are still high, and that's collateral.
High diesel and fertilizer costs due to President Trump's Iran war capping what's been a slow burn in the heartland since COVID.
And then tariffs with soybean prices staying flat and inflation rising.
Sherlock says something's got to give soon.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Fargo, North Dakota.
March is typically the snowiest month of the year in Colorado, but this year the state is reporting its lowest snow totals on record.
The Cascades in Oregon and Washington are in a similar dire state.
According to new data from NOAA's Drought Monitor, in California, warm temperatures have already caused rapid snowmelt and an early spring runoff.
Every single river basin in the West has experienced its warmest or second warmest winter on record.
Snow is the West's primary water storage, and tens of millions of people rely on it for drinking water, food, and power.
The Federal Bureau of Reclamation now predicts the water level in Lake Powell may drop so low that the Glen Canyon Dam will cease producing power by December.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Bozeman, Montana.
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