Concerns after last year's record wildfire year in Colorado are shifting to flooding during severe weather season. In 2013, severe flooding ravaged parts of Colorado after wildfires.
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“We’ve got bush tits, northern flickers
, white and red-breasted nuthatches!” exclaims ten-year-old Marieva O’Neil. Her list of local fowl sounds foul, even pornographic, but it’s simply a small sampling of the birds she’s spotted in her backyard.
“There’s a brown creeper,” she adds. “It’s invisible to adults, but I’m able to see it, especially when it moves to grab a bug.”
O’Neil and her mother live in the Hilltop neighborhood, on what they’d thought was a busy cross street until the pandemic slowed life down. “I’m just surprised that there are so many different birds all around that we’ve never noticed,” admits Marieva’s mother, Lani O’Neil. “The spring blue jays are quite friendly this season, and it’s only our second year we’ve spotted them!”
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This year the state of Missouri is celebrating its 200th birthday. But few people today know about the Native American tribe behind the state’s name.
Before English, French or any European language was spoken in the spot of the map where Missouri sits, Native American tribes brought their own dialects to the region.
One of those dialects was Chiwere, a Siouan language originally spoken by the Otoe, Iowa and Missouria tribes.
It s an endangered language that researchers and descendants of its speakers are working hard to preserve.
The Missouria is the tribe behind the state of Missouri’s name. Its people originally came from the Great Lakes region. They were thought to be part of a bigger tribe with the Otoe, Iowa, Winnebago and Ho-Chunk peoples, before they split off and moved south to the area that is now North Central Missouri in the 1500’s.
by Natalie Saenz
Natalie Saenz
April 23, 2021 - 7:11pm
The Nebraska Department of Natural Resources will continue developing its drought contingency plan for the Upper Platte River Basin with a $200,000 grant.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will distribute the funding to help Nebraska prepare for any future droughts. The state’s two-year drought contingency plan costs $400,000, which includes data and study costs.
Jennifer Schellpeper is the water planning division manager for the state’s department of natural resources, and said the last significant drought was in 2012, but the Western part of the state regularly experiences times of drought.
“With the funding it allows us to bring in extra resources, bring in consultants to the process and move things forward faster than we might have otherwise without the grant funding,” Schellpeper said.