Amanda Peacher
Amanda Peacher is an Arthur F. Burns fellow reporting and producing in Berlin in 2013. Amanda is from Portland, Oregon, where she works as the public insight journalist for Oregon Public Broadcasting. She produces radio and online stories, data visualizations, multimedia projects, and facilitates community engagement opportunities for OPB's newsroom.
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A leaked memo this week from the Interior Department shows Secretary Ryan Zinke wants to give states more clout over wildlife management on public lands...
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If you’re poor and you get really sick in Idaho, your health care options might be really different than say, if you live in Colorado or Montana.
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The Trump Administration has finally nominated a director for the National Park Service. The new director will manage a public lands system facing...
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has released more details about his plan to reorganize the Department of Interior. The plan could have big impacts for...
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A new report out of Idaho shows the number of children without a permanent roof over their heads is increasing. This trend is mirrored across much of...
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The Interior Department is once again facing change in agency leadership. The acting head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has stepped down.
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We want to hear YOUR questions about wildfire. Click here to submit your question to the Wanna Know Idaho podcast. Fires across the West are creating a...
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Fewer federal land workers are being threatened and assaulted on the job, according to a new analysis by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
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Cathalee La knows more about Idaho hummingbirds than your typical teenager.
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A house subcommittee is focusing on grazing on public lands on Thursday. Republican leaders want to discuss what they call the regulatory burdens on the...
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The suspect accused of murdering a three-year-old and brutally injuring eight other refugees in a knife attack Saturday night in Boise has a checkered,...
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A year and a half into the Trump presidency and several federal land agencies do not have directors— including the National Park Service, Bureau of Land...