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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Environmental groups say riverside homeless encampments are polluting Oregon's waterways. People experiencing homelessness say urban camp removals are pushing them there.
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Oregon has a new draft map illustrating which areas are most susceptible to wildfires.
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Ten people in Oregon have died from suspected heat-related illnesses during the heat wave that started last week.
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A federal appeals court has sided with environmental groups over logging private land that was once part of the Elliott State Forest.
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About two dozen projects aimed at saving imperiled fish and amphibians are getting a share of $10 million, the first round of grants to come out of Oregon’s landmark agreement on managing private forest lands.
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A week after closing mussel harvesting across the Oregon Coast due to high levels of toxins, officials expanded that closure to include razor and bay clams.
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Paralytic shellfish poisoning is the most severe type of shellfish poisoning. It's tied to algal blooms that state officials say are getting worse along with climate change.
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Machine learning algorithms are helping researchers detect the calls of marbled murrelets among millions of hours of audio recordings collected from Oregon and Washington forests.
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Heartworm disease is more prevalent in warmer southern states, but it's becoming more common in Oregon and Washington as temperatures rise.
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A report released Thursday uses data submitted by the nonprofit Willamette Riverkeeper, whose staff say the mounting trash pollution appears to be tied to increases in homelessness.