Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt covers education and the environment for the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that she was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media for four years. 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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State fish and wildlife officials authorized the killing of six gray wolves in eastern Oregon during the past six weeks, bringing relief to ranchers who lost livestock to the wolves and anger to conservationists who see the killings as inhumane and ineffective. -
Thousands of kids across Oregon are guaranteed summer and after-school programs in the coming school year with millions in new federal funding.
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The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde can now hunt and fish on tribal licenses in a greater area of their historic homelands
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Climate change has not only limited Oregon’s cherry growing season but delayed California’s, leading the market to be flooded and prices to drop.
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Decades of data show that despite billions in taxpayer investment, salmon and steelhead hatchery programs and restoration projects in the Columbia River Basin have failed to support or boost native fish populations and in fact are contributing to their decline.
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The North Pacific gray whale population is down 46% in the last seven years, but healthier mothers and more calves could be signs of a rebound.
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Noble Family Dairy allowed cow manure to flow into the Applegate River for 20 days, causing dangerous levels of E. coli in the water.
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Borrowers who had been making payments for 20 or more years and should have had balances forgiven will finally see an end to their bills.
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Oregon, Washington and California are planning to build a network of electric truck chargers and hydrogen fueling stations on the West Coast.
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More than 1 million acres of what’s often called “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” could be protected from wildfire and degradation if the state’s two U.S. senators can convince their peers in Congress to approve a new wilderness area.
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Three nonprofit environmental groups are calling out Avista for raising natural gas prices while using ratepayer money on lawyers fighting climate regulations.
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Researchers analyzing the feces and prey of gray whales off the Oregon Coast estimate the mammals could be consuming millions of small bits of plastic, clothing fibers and other human debris each day that harm their health – and could hurt humans.
