Rachel Cohen
Mountain West News Bureau reporterRachel Cohen is the Mountain West News Bureau reporter for KUNC. She covers topics most important to the Western region. She spent five years at Boise State Public Radio, where she reported from Twin Falls and the Sun Valley area, and shared stories about the environment and public health.
As a National Science Health and Environment Reporting Fellow (SHERF), she studied the intersection of these topics and examined how climate change affects human health.
Her favorite part of working in public radio is getting to meet interesting people and talk about what matters to them. When not working, she enjoys hiking, skiing, checking out coffee shops and watching women’s soccer.
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Union leaders for federal employees said they're glad the shutdown is over, but morale remains low. -
Trust lands are not the same as most public lands. Public access to them can be restricted, and they're managed primarily to make money, usually for public schools. -
The Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule put conservation on equal footing with grazing and energy production. The Trump administration is trying to roll it back. -
Few states require building with fire-resistant materials, but some in the Mountain West are in the process of changing that. -
After the U.S. State Department increased social media vetting for international student visa applicants, some ski resorts worried about shortages of lift operators or food servers. -
As predators like grizzly bears and gray wolves expand their ranges or are being recovered to more habitats, wildlife managers in the Mountain West are increasingly tasked with preventing conflicts between the animals and people. Some are turning to new strategies and technologies, including drones. -
Before it burned to the ground earlier this month, the Caribou Village Shopping Center was an important part of life in Nederland. Now, two weeks later, those businesses are navigating what comes next. -
The Trump Administration is using revenue from recreation fees to keep bathrooms clean and trash tidy at national parks during the shutdown. But parks are not charging fees at this time. -
The Great Outdoors Fund helps to fill funding gaps for public lands projects by leveraging private investment. -
Every two and a half miles of barbed wire is responsible for killing one deer, elk or pronghorn a year, one study estimated.
