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Grant County Coronavirus Update January 06, 2021 On this week's show, Jamie Newton talks to Dr. Renee Despres, a public health consultant who lives in Silver City, and who is a co-founder and co-coordinator of the Grant County Emerging Infectious Diseases Task Force. Dr. Despres explains the status of the coronavirus surge in Grant County, and summarizes the background and accomplishments of the Task Force. She addresses questions many people […]
On this week's Earth Matters Radio Hour we'll be listening to a webinar about Transforming State Wildlife Management to Protect Biodiversity in the U.S. The webinar was part of the University of New Mexico's 2020 Biodiversity Series. We highly recommend listening to this expansive, informative and inspiring conversation with three highly experienced and insightful panelists--Louisa Willcox, Adrian Treves, and Fred Koontz--and moderated by Earth Matters' co-host Kevin Bixby. Right click […]
Grant County Coronavirus Update December 29, 2020 For this week’s interview, GMCR’s Jamie Newton interviews Dr. Anna Rogers, MD, a family medicine specialist who practices in a hospital in Gallup, New Mexico, Since the pandemic began early in the spring of 2020, Dr. Rogers has treated coronavirus patients almost exclusively in her practice. She will share guidance for people who think they may have contracted COVID-19 or who have tested […]
This week on Grant County Coronavirus Update, GMCR’s Jamie Newton interviews Jeff Fell, Silver City’s Emergency Services Manager and Assistant Fire Chief. Jeff explained his role as a communicator and facilitator of networking and cooperation among the various emergency services that work together to protect and serve the public – firefighters, law enforcement, emergency medical services – with emphasis on adaptations of procedures and precautions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, […]
On this weeks show, Earth Matters co-hosts Donna Stevens of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance, Allyson Siwik of Gila Resources Information Project, and Kevin Bixby of Southwest Environmental Center get together for their traditional end-of-year show to review the top environmental stories of 2020 and priorities for 2021. Right click and select "Save Link As" to download
For this week’s interview, GMCR’s Jamie Newton speaks with Chris Jepson, a recently retired nurse and health educator, and her husband, Grant County Commissioner Harry Browne, who are recovering from the coronavirus. Jamie talks to them about their experience with the illness, including diagnosis, the experience of being ill, and recuperation, plus emotional impacts on themselves and their family and friends. Coronavirus Update is a local radio show that provides […]
On this episode of Earth Matters, we’re bringing to you one of this year’s Gila River Festival presentations entitled "Community Health: How can we build resilience?" with Dr. Emily Haozous and Dr. Fred Fox. As the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately hits Indigenous communities and people of color and the calls for racial justice continue, it is no longer possible for society to look past long-standing inequities in our health care, economic, […]
This week's Earth Matters show features a presentation from the 2020 Gila River Festival about southwest New Mexico’s water future. How can we ensure that we have a resilient water supply for human and nonhuman communities? You’ll hear from Priscilla Lucero, Executive Director of the Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments, about some of the water problems encountered in this area in the last couple of decades. Geologist Stacy Timmons […]
