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Tribe, US officials reach deal to save Colorado River water

PHOENIX — A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project. The $233 million pact with the Gila River Indian Community, announced in Phoenix, was hailed as an example of the kind of cooperation needed to rescue a river crucial to a massive agricultural industry and essential to more than 40 million people in seven Western U.S. states and Mexico. Officials termed it “compensated conservation.” It’s part of a broader effort to get ...

Overfishing threatens a way of life in the Bahamas

FREEPORT, Bahamas — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up the marine snails from the seabed. But in recent years, Davis, 49, and conch fishers like her have had to go farther and farther from shore - sometimes as far as 30 miles - to find the mollusks that Bahamians eat fried, stewed, smoked and raw and are a pillar of the island nation’s economy and tourism industry. Scientists, international conservationists and government officials have sounded ...

Youth recognized at Nicollet County Holstein meeting

COURTLAND — Youth recognition and youth sponsorship were a big part of the Nicollet County Holstein Association’s annual meeting held Monday, March 27 at Swany’s in Courtland. The group met in conjunction with the Nicollet County DHIA since many members are involved in both ...

Brown County 4-H Youth sweep Redwood Regional Project Bowl competition

REDWOOD FALLS – Over 40 teams of youth from across central and southwestern Minnesota braved the snow drifts and icy roads to participate in the 4-H Regional Project Bowl in Redwood Falls March 11. This competition challenges teams of three to six youth by testing their knowledge on a ...

Texas drove out Chinese firm, not the wind farm it planned

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated and spooked the U.S. public, Kyle Bass foresaw what he deemed another foreign danger slated for skies above the Texas-Mexico border: wind turbines. Dozens of them, roughly 700 feet (213 meters) tall — as big as San Antonio’s tallest skyscraper — were set to sprout across thousands of scrubby acres near the pristine Devils River. Protests that a wind farm would harm a sensitive ecosystem in Texas flopped, but when attention turned to a Chinese billionaire behind the project, state lawmakers raced to pull the ...

GFW senior earns MNIICCA scholarship

STEWART — Andrew Burns of Stewart, a high school senior attending Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop High School, was recently announced as the 2023 Minnesota Independent Crop Consultants Assoc. (MNICCA) scholarship recipient at the organization’s annual meeting held February 20, 2023 in Bloomington. Andrew is the son of Curt and Jackie Burns of rural Stewart, MN. Andrew has developed and demonstrated his leadership skills through his participation in school and community activities such as the FFA, 4-H, National Honor Society, Knowledge Bowl, Student Council, Concert and Jazz band and his ...