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April 22, 2025: AmeriCorps member on cuts, bird migration coming, cannabis chemistry

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A man in a purple button-down shirt stands in a scientific lab, holding a plant in front of him.
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Nolan Kane, in CU’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department, holds up cannabis grown at CU Boulder’s lab.

A new target of federal budget cuts is AmeriCorps, the community service organization. A Colorado corps member says his disaster recovery work was immediately stopped. Then, you’ll start to notice more birds migrating in these next couple weeks. Millions of their lives can be saved with a click of a switch. Plus, 420 was this past weekend. In Colorado Wonders, a listener asks what’s in the types of cannabis that a fifth of Coloradans use.

This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel. It’s edited and produced by Jo Erickson and Mateo Schimpf. The executive producer is Rachel Estabrook. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.

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