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Today we talk with USU professor Paul Rogers about wildfire, as well as such issues as growth and housing, wildlife habitat, Native American co-stewardship and myths of the Old West and New West.

We’re compiling another UPR community booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. Listen to suggestions from booksellers and UPR friends, and share your recommendations.

We revisit our conversation with writer Sandra Cisneros. Her book "Martita, I Remember You / Martita, te recuerdo" was included in one of our UPR Community Booklists.

We talk with award-winning Utah essayist Phyllis Barber about her book "The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and Sky."

Northern India's Nazareth Hospital was a radical undertaking: it was run almost entirely by women, who insisted on giving the highest possible standard of care to all, regardless of caste or religion.

Folklorist and author Tom Mould was in Logan last week to give a lecture at Utah State University.

On this episode we revisit our 2018 conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner John Branch about cowboys, the rodeo, and traditions of the West.

Dr. Dante Lauretta is a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, the principal investigator of the OSIRIS REX mission, and author of the new book "The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System."

In The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves, Hudson scours the human experience, offering a sweeping history of social norms and giving readers insight from hundreds of civility handbooks across history and the globe.

Today we talk with Kase Johnstun about his new novel Cast Away.