April Ehrlich
April Ehrlich is a reporter covering lands and environmental policies in Oregon and Southwest Washington at OPB, after joining as a breaking news editor in November 2021.
She previously worked at Jefferson Public Radio in Southern Oregon, where she was a reporter, show producer, and radio host. While there, she focused much of her reporting on wildfire coverage, including an investigation with NPR into federal disaster assistance programs and how they routinely fail people in marginalized groups.
April’s reporting has won numerous Public Media Journalists Association awards and regional Edward R. Murrow awards, as well as a national Murrow.
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People on the Warm Springs reservation have evacuated, and other communities in Central and Eastern Oregon are threatened. -
Oregon forest regulators approved a 70-year management plan protecting state forests, despite Trump administration changes to the Endangered Species Act. -
More than 1,000 people in Oregon have been ordered to evacuate their homes this week. -
As Trump focuses on timber in the Blue Mountains, elk hunters fear habitat could diminish. -
The Oregon Court of Appeals will also weigh whether to allow a judge who previously represented PacifiCorp to stay on the case. -
The proposal could bring drastic changes to 5 million acres of forests and grasslands -
A brief moment of bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate turned political on Wednesday, when Republican lawmakers introduced a new provision to a wildfire bill. That bill, called the Wildfire Prevention Act, would mandate increasing prescribed fires and forest thinning in federal forests. -
Federal judge rules BLM ignored “significant evidence” of protected old growth forests within its logging plans. -
Wildfire survivors are asking Oregon’s highest court to reverse a decision that could imperil their case against utility giant PacifiCorp. -
President Donald Trump is invoking an obscure law that allows the military to pollute waterways in the Owyhee region.
