Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt is a JPR content partner from the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that Alex was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post.
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The Jewell School District in Clatsop County plans to 鈥渂et the farm鈥� to overturn a habitat conservation plan that threatens the district鈥檚 timber funding. -
Oregon鈥檚 highest needs schools that are focused on revamping literacy instruction and boosting student reading proficiency will get federal financial help next year. -
Three prominent Republicans are calling for legislative action on wildfire policy that targets scaling back forest conservation and logging restrictions. -
The announcement follows a federal environmental assessment that found the sites would not pose a threat. -
Oregon, California and Washington are getting a major boost from the federal government to advance the shipment of goods by zero-emission trucks on Interstate 5. -
In a webinar hosted by regional transmission authorities, data centers were called a 鈥渕ajor challenge鈥� for the energy industry, as well as extreme weather. -
Kotek wants the president to designate the Owyhee Canyonlands in southeastern Oregon a national monument if Congress won鈥檛 vote to protect it. -
The State Land Board will vote in October on a plan to put most of the forest into carbon storage and crediting. -
State and federal leaders have put millions into improving crops and soils so they absorb more carbon dioxide, but across the U.S. that would only cut 3% of agricultural emissions, researchers found. -
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality reworked the state鈥檚 landmark Climate Protection Program after it was derailed by a gas company lawsuit. -
Despite fire prevention and conservation improvements in sage grouse habitat, the population is declining. -
A spate of lightning storms coupled with hot dry weather has created high-risk wildfire conditions earlier than expected, officials said.
