Madelyn Beck
Madelyn Beck is a regional Illinois reporter, based in Galesburg. On top of her work for Harvest Public Media, she also contributes to WVIK, Tri-States Public Radio and the Illinois Newsroom collaborative.
Beck grew up on a small cattle ranch in Manhattan, Montana. Her previous work was mostly based in the western U.S., but she has covered agriculture, environment and health issues from Alaska to Washington, D.C.
Before joining Harvest and the Illinois Newsroom, she was as an energy reporter based in Wyoming for the public radio collaborative Inside Energy. Other publications include the Idaho Mountain Express, E&E News/EnergyWire, KRBD Rainbird Radio, the Montana Broadcasters Association, Montana Public Radio and the Tioga Tribune.
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U.S. Senators talked about the West’s drought this week and what more they could be doing to address it. About $8.3 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure package is going to water systems, but as some lawmakers noted, water is drying up faster than some projects can get off the ground. -
This year’s strain of the bird flu is still killing birds in our region, from poultry to hawks. Officials hope the virus dies out later this summer, but until then, they urge bird owners to use good hygiene practices and to protect the birds from other wild species. To report sick or dead livestock, contact agriculture officials. To report sick or dead wild birds, contact your state wildlife officials.
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A housing crunch in the West has some looking to public lands as a solution…and a place to live.
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It’s legal to pick up roadkill for food in most of the Mountain West (Nevada excluded). You generally just have to get a permit, and now Wyoming is making that especially easy to do. In that state, you can get a permit via an app, called Wyoming 511. However, if you want to take part of the animal for food, you’ll need to take the entire animal with you.
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Nationwide deaths related to black market fentanyl pills are rising. Many victims are people who got hooked on pain pills following medical procedures.
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In Part 3 of Mountain West News Bureau's series on fentanyl, reporter Madelyn Beck takes a look at what tools are available to help slow fentanyl deaths.
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In Part 2 of Mountain West News Bureau's series on fentanyl, Madelyn Beck reports on how the legal system is responding and the impacts of the death of a…
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Fatal drug overdoses are skyrocketing, driven by synthetic opioids like fentanyl. And the potentially deadly drug has made it to the region -- the last to…
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Humans aren’t the only mammals that can contract COVID-19 — zoo animals like large cats and apes can get it, too.
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We’ve heard a lot about wolf reintroduction in our region, but that’s not the only carnivore environmentalists want to bring back.
