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On The Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Edition Of Idaho Matters

  • Risks and Opportunities for Idaho in a Changing Climate
  • The Land Water Conservation Fund Expires
  • 'Wanna Know Idaho' Begins Second Season
  • Lost Anne Sexton Poems To Be Published

- The Northwest Climate Conference and Idaho Public Television are presenting founding director of the Risky Business Project, Kate Gordon, to discuss the impact of climate change in Idaho and the economic benefits of combating global warming. Gordon joins Idaho Matters with Todd Haynes, renewable energy project manager with POWER Engineers to discuss the ins and outs of climate change in the Gem State.

- Congress failed to renew the Land Water Conservation Fund and the federal program that has provided funds to aid land and water conservation since 1965 has expired. Idaho Matters looks at the impact on Idaho's landscape.

- Boise State Public Radio's Wanna Know Idahoanswers the questions you have about our state. Host Frankie Barnhill joins Idaho Matters to map out what's coming up in the series' second season.

- Four early poems and an essay disappeared from poet Anne Sexton's oeuvre of work. They have been recently re-discovered and will be published this month in Fugue magazine. Idaho Matters speaks with the two poetry hunters who found the works.

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