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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Forty million people and countless farms depend on the Colorado River, and the snowpack at its headwaters right now is at 60 percent of average.
And that average factors in the last couple decades of mega-drought.
The West's main water storage supply is its snowpack, and Lindsay DeFreides with the Colorado River Water District says the deficit is huge.
Bad news for water managers and the West's multi-billion dollar ski industry.
Business at resorts from Colorado to historically dry Utah is way down over this time last year.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Denver.
Colorado's Democratic senators, including Michael Bennett, tried unsuccessfully to add an amendment to the Senate Appropriations Bill that would have protected funding for the massive NCAR lab in Boulder.
which was founded in 1960 and today employs hundreds of scientists.
Its research is credited with helping communities plan and adapt to catastrophic disasters like wildfires.
Senator Bennett, who's running for governor in Colorado, says President Trump is just punishing states that didn't vote for him.
The White House has called NCAR one of the largest sources of, quote, climate alarmism in the country.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News.
With the January 7 fires crossing multiple jurisdictions, survivors say it can feel like no one is in charge of the recovery, especially with FEMA's budget being cut.
In Altadena, Andrew King is trying to rebuild but is frustrated.
Meanwhile, King has a building permit and is going ahead with pouring the concrete for his garage, even though he still hasn't settled with his insurance company.
Kirk Sigler in PR News, Pasadena.
These bridge payments, as the administration is calling them, are meant to offset the effects of the president's trade war and tariffs that have left American soybeans here in the bins and not exported to China.
The aid is expected to arrive by early March, but farmers like John Kipley say they need the money right now.
Kipley says banks won't lend because they know farmers will still be in the red next season.
One estimate at a Farmers Union conference here showed that's the case for close to half of all the farms in South Dakota, where many family farms without capital could soon be out of business.
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