April Ehrlich
April Ehrlich began freelancing for Jefferson Public Radio in the fall of 2016, and then officially joined the team as its Morning Edition Host and a Jefferson Exchange producer in August 2017.
She previously worked as a reporter for the Roseburg News-Review, where she covered city government and housing. Before that, she covered the oil and gas industry and local government on the Oregon-Idaho border.
April served a two-year stint with AmeriCorps, where she worked with nonprofits helping low-income communities in rural Oregon. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English at Cal-State University, Fullerton, where she worked as an editor for the campus paper.
When she is not at work or napping between shifts, April is likely hiking through nearby forests with a rambunctious border collie, or reading fiction at home with her two favorite cats.
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An invasive, tree-killing pest has made its way to Portland, spelling trouble for the many native ash trees that cool residential neighborhoods on hot summer days. -
The 2020 Labor Day fires destroyed more than 1,700 manufactured homes — about 42% of all homes destroyed in Oregon that weekend. Most were in Jackson County, where the Almeda Fire burned across the towns of Talent and Phoenix, tearing through neighborhoods lining the Interstate 5 freeway. -
The federal government is asking for input on Paramount Gold’s proposal, which could bring jobs and investment to the remote region, but could also deplete groundwater reserves in a struggling aquifer and its bright lights might harm wildlife. Though unlikely, it could also leak arsenic into drinking water reserves. -
Some Oregon birdwatchers say this spring was strangely quiet – and the data backs that up. -
Outdoor recreation played a key factor in improving people’s mental health during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey led by Oregon State University researchers and published this spring by a major scientific journal. -
Large companies will start paying into a program to expand and unify Oregon's recycling system, helping more cities offer recycling services. -
The Republican-backed budget bill that passed in the U.S. Senate Tuesday authorizes dramatic increases to logging on federal lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. But Oregon counties won’t see most of those revenues if the bill clears the U.S. House unchanged. -
A legal complaint filed in district court Monday says “several eyewitnesses” saw sparks coming from a Union Pacific locomotive, sparking flames in nearby brush. -
The Trump administration hasn’t renewed a critical grant that helps fund local disaster response, leaving Oregon counties and tribal governments vulnerable ahead of a potentially active wildfire season. -
Last week, Oregon lawmakers passed Senate Bill 726. Once signed by Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, it will require the Coffin Butte Landfill in Benton County to expand its system for monitoring methane releases.
