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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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.
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There’s high drama in the oil world right now. Last year, we saw prices go negative as a glut took over the world. Annual production fell by record...
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Three known members of anti-government group the Oath Keepers were the first to be charged with conspiring to commit violence after the insurrection at...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Thursday removed Endangered Species List protections for the gray wolf in the lower 48 states. Mountain West News…
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Colorado regulators are now requiring oil and gas operators to monitor fracking emissions earlier and more often , and provide that data to local...
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COVID-19 cases are still increasing around the Mountain West, and wait times to get test results are getting longer for many.
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The pandemic has beef markets on a roller coaster, and Shohone, Idaho's Amie Taber is among the ranchers along for the ride.
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Noxious gas, rolling giant eyeballs, being trapped in a perpetually falling elevator. The pandemic is sparking a world-wide increase in vivid dreams....
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A new study in the journal Science says that human-driven climate change is pushing the American West into a megadrought, and into its driest period in...