Fellows at Work: Reporting via bike, Public Lands, Hungry Bears and more
January 12, 2026
Fellows & Grantees at Work
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Youth connect to their lands — and relatives — with annual Rez Ride Amy Romer, Indiginews (2024 Indigenous Reporting Grant recipient)
The U.S. sold this tribe’s land illegally. It’s now the latest Native group to get its home back Héctor Alejandro Arzate, Harvest Public Media (2024 Land Back Workshop)
States and Nonprofits Are Helping National Parks Run During the Shutdown. Could Their Efforts Backfire? Jake Bolster, Inside Climate News (2025 Crown of the Continent Institute)
‘It’s a story of hope’: Reflections on undamming the Klamath Anna V. Smith, High Country News (2019 Bristol Bay Institute)
The Republic's climate reporter biked the Arizona Trail. You can follow her journey. Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic (eight-part series supported by 2025 Field Reporting Grant)
From Utah: Wildfire | From the South Rim: Water | From Flagstaff: Public Lands | From Payson: Transitions | From the Superstitions: Solutions | From the Tortillas: Biodiversity | From the Sky Islands: Limits | From the Santa Ritas: Connection
Photo: Kylie Mohr
Roam: Wild Animals and the Race to Repair Our Fractured World (book) Hillary Rosner, Patagonia (2023 Beyond Yellowstone/SEJ Post-conference Tour)
Western climate litigants keep fighting Amal Ahmed, High Country News (2021 Mary G. Hager Grant recipient)
The Salmon That Surprised Everyone Emma Marris, The New York Times (2014 Field Reporting Grant recipient)
Free Range Series, Mark Olalde et al, ProPublica/High Country News (2024 Critical Minerals Institute)
The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Congress made it easier to ignore grazing’s harm to public lands
How ranchers accused of breaking the rules dodge oversight
How we reported Free Range, our grazing investigation
It was mild bloom year on Lake Erie, but upstream challenges persist Garret Ellison, MLive (2025 Great Lakes Federal Funding Workshop)
How many are dying from heat in Chicago? The city stopped counting NaBeela Washington, Prism (2025 Urban Environment Reporting Workshop)
Bears in the Boneyard Claire Carlson, Offrange (2025 Crown of the Continent Institute)
Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine Chris D’Angelo, High Country News/Public Domain (2019 Wildfire Workshop)
In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm Nina Elkadi, photos by Carline Gutman, Sentient (both 2024 Water Infrastructure Workshop)
Nevada’s ‘white gold’ rush Alan Halaly, Las Vegas Review-Journal (supported by a 2025 Indigenous Reporting Grant)
With Altadena burning, L.A. County lacked satellite mapping tool used by other agencies Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times (2025 Southern California Wildfire Institute)
Opportunities & Announcements
The Earth Journalism Network is accepting proposals for its Forest Governance Story Grants.
McClatchy South Carolina is hiring a coastal climate reporter.
Ocean Nexus and the Metcalf Institute, in collaboration with The Uproot Project, are accepting applications for the MONA fellowship.
Oregon Public Broadcasting is hiring two multiplatform video reporter/producers.
Wisconsin Public Media is hiring a rural communities reporter.
The Seattle Times is hiring an assistant managing editor.
The Maine Morning Star is hiring an environment and energy reporter.
The Plumas Sun is hiring a disaster-recovery reporter.
The Christian Science Monitor is hiring a west coast bureau chief.
The 19th is hiring two editors.
Audubon is hiring a photo editor.
The Water Desk is accepting applications for its Rio Grande Basin training workshop.
The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole is accepting applications for its Logan Science Journalism Fellowship.
The Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law and Graduate School is accepting applications for its Summer Media Fellowships.
The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont and the U.S. Society of Ecological Economics are accepting submissions for the Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics.