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In Primero’s first-ever year of having a competitive high school wrestling team, three out of its six members placed at districts and qualified for state. The Primero Bulldogs attended the Colorado High School Athletic Association’s Class 2AA Regional Wrestling Tournament, hosted by Rocky Ford High School, but held at Otero Junior College in La Junta, Feb.

A new report by two nonprofit organizations is advocating 11 western states change local and state policies to increase controlled burning on private lands to stem wildfires. “Modern wildfires are not only burning larger areas but are also more harmful for people, forests, and the environment,” according to the publication “Burn Back Better,” produced by the Property and Environment Research Center and Tall Timbers.

On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil- straight horizon divides golden fields and blue sky, a farmer named Danny Wood scrambles to plant and harvest proso millet, dryland corn and winter wheat in short, seasonal windows. That is until his high-tech Steiger 370 tractor conks out.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife received 4,282 reports of sightings and conflicts with bears in 2022, which was a 16% increase from 2021, but a 1.3% decrease from the previous two years. In 2019, CPW launched a new bear reporting system to help wildlife managers track and quantify bear activity and conflicts across the state.

No one knows what you know. And everyone else you meet knows things you don’t.

A local nonprofit, partly focused on promoting environmental stewardship, announced that its environmental scholarship program for 2023 is open. The Culebra Range Community Coalition said this month, that students in the Purgatoire River Watershed seeking to study an environment-related major are eligible to apply for the Culebra Range Community Coalition Environmental Scholarship Program.

A teacher apprenticeship program, stipends and loan forgiveness for student teachers, and the ability for out-of-state teachers to more easily qualify to work in Colorado. Those are the ideas Colorado lawmakers have proposed this year to address staffing shortages across the state.

The Primero Chapter of Future Business Leaders of America saw success on Colorado’s Eastern Plains last month, when six members qualified at the 20222023 District No. 7 Leadership Conference at Otero Junior/Senior High School to head to Denver to compete on the state level.