April Ehrlich
Oregon Public BroadcastingApril Ehrlich is JPR content partner at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Prior to joining OPB, she was a regional reporter at Jefferson Public Radio where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for her reporting on the impacts of wildfires on marginalized groups. Her reporting comes to JPR through the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
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Environmental groups and timberland owners are calling on Oregon lawmakers to support a yearslong agreement that will be slashed under current budget proposals. -
The group, appointed under former President Joe Biden, has completed its core assignment, but still has some remaining goals. -
Republican-led policy directives could rewrite forest policies that affect public lands in Oregon and the rest of the West. -
Oregon could have far fewer firefighters ready to battle blazes on federal lands next fire season — and may do less advance work aimed at mitigating the risk of large fires — due to the Trump administration’s hiring freeze and funding cuts, according to U.S. lawmakers. -
The announcements come just days before the start of the Trump administration, which is widely expected to promote extractive industries over conservation. -
The resignation of Oregon’s top forestry executive last week comes at a pivotal moment for environmental policies in the state. -
National forests in the Pacific Northwest were set to be protected under two major updates to forestry plans— but that changed Tuesday. Now just one proposal remains on the table. -
Two sea turtles washed up along Oregon’s beaches in the final days of 2024 due to hypothermic shock, bringing the number of sea turtles that appeared on the state’s shores last year to 17. -
The federal government is suing the electric utility PacifiCorp over a 2020 wildfire in Douglas County. The Archie Creek Fire burned across more than 131,000 acres, about half of that federal land, according to the legal complaint filed Thursday. -
This year’s record wildfire season has left contractors who fought fires sitting unpaid for months. -
Oregon is on track to become the first state to launch a recycling program that holds producers accountable for their product packaging. -
More than a million acres of wildlands in Eastern Oregon could be preserved through federal legislation or a monument declaration from the president. This could be the last chance for the Owyhee Canyonlands to see additional protections for years.
