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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It includes critical habitat designations for the first time in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico.
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The Department of Justice says Utah gave up the rights to the federal lands within its boundaries when it joined the union in 1896.
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Biden has created six new monuments and expanded or restored more. He’s had a particular emphasis on protections called for by tribes.
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Idaho's abortion bans permit doctors to perform abortions to prevent the death of a pregnant woman, but not to preserve her health. This lawsuit is aiming to change that by expanding the medical circumstances in which abortions are allowed.
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The current version of the bill – which covers crop insurance, conservation programs and nutrition assistance – was written almost six years ago.
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Utility companies have been sued to bankruptcy over downed power lines that caused deadly wildfires in Hawaii and California. A Colorado utility's power shutoff to prevent fire also caused problems.
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In many natural history museums, bee specimens are accompanied by little slips of paper that have details about each specimen, like the species name, who found it, where and when. It’s a treasure trove of data but it needs to be digitized.
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Most people in jail across the country are eligible to vote. But it’s not easy for many of those incarcerated people to cast their ballots. A Colorado effort is starting to turn that around.
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If the U.S. Supreme Court hears the case, it could drastically change the ownership and management of public lands across the West.
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Having a proactive statewide management plan, advocates said, can help educate the public about the importance of sustaining beaver populations, outline goals for their recovery, and help foster coexistence with communities.