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How Idaho youth are working to reduce heat in urban areas

Earlier this month, weather sensors were placed throughout one Boise neighborhood to document how heat is impacting our urban areas.

Broadcast on:
30 Jul 2024
A heat sensor collects weather data in a Boise neighborhood.
( Idaho Conservation Corps)

Earlier this month, weather sensors were placed throughout a Boise neighborhood to document how heat is impacting our urban areas.

The project, which is being spearheaded by a youth-led research team with the Idaho Conservation Corps, aims to show how additional tree canopy could provide a possible solution to rising temperatures here in the Treasure Valley.

Lisa O'Flaherty, the state director of the Idaho Conservation Corps, along with youth-crew member Logan Clark-Rivera, joined Idaho Matters to talk more.