Kayla Desroches
Kayla Desroches reports for Yellowstone Public Radio in Billings. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and stayed in the city for college, where she hosted a radio show that featured serialized dramas like the Shadow and Suspense. In her pathway to full employment, she interned at WNYC in New York City and KTOO in Juneau, Alaska. She then spent a few years on the island of Kodiak, Alaska, where she transitioned from reporter to news director before moving to Montana.
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Montana has lots of tourist attractions, from national parks to fly fishing and skiing. But night tours of bat habitats are the hot new thing.
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Insects are great indicators of climate change because they're the first animals to leave when temperatures change. But a lot about them remains unknown, citizen scientists are helping change that.
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In response to a lawsuit from environmentalists, the Biden administration is ending new leases for coal mining on federal lands in the most productive part of America's top coal producing state.
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A fungal disease that's been devastating bat populations in the Eastern U.S. appears to be moving west faster than predicted. That has big economic and ecological implications.
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Gateway towns to Yellowstone National Park have been devastated by flooding. Some residents worry the high water will wash away the summer tourist season.
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As the Biden administration prepares to negotiate reductions in fossil fuel use at the Glasgow climate summit at the end of the month, U.S. coal production is actually up significantly this year. -
President Biden's plan to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline is welcome news to Native American governments and activists in Montana — but disappointing to many elected officials.
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Construction started on the Keystone XL pipeline in Montana, with 100-some workers coming in from across the country. Some locals, including tribal nations, worry they will bring COVID-19 with them.
