Rachel Cohen
Environment and Outdoors ReporterExpertise: Environment, public health and local government reporting
Education: Middlebury College
Highlights
- The best part of my job is that I get to learn something new almost every day
- I love skiing and hiking in the Idaho outdoors
- National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellow (SHERF)
Experience
I cover environmental issues, outdoor recreation and local news for Boise State Public Radio. Beyond reporting, I contribute to the station’s digital strategy efforts and enjoy thinking about how our work can best reach and serve our audience.
I joined Boise State Public Radio in 2019 as a Report for America corps member, focusing on south central Idaho. Before moving here, I lived in several New England states and produced interviews at New Hampshire Public Radio. I got my start in public radio as an intern on NPR’s Science Desk in Washington, D.C.
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The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee today passed two bills tightening the definition of gender and limiting gender expression. -
Idaho water law does not require obtaining a water right for drilling one of these wells and allows the well to pump up to 13,000 gallons each day for a half-acre of land. -
A high number of avalanche deaths, particularly among snowmobilers, in eastern Idaho in recent years might be connected to a gap in avalanche forecast areas. -
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission is meeting this week to decide on adjustments for next season. -
People seeking gender affirming care couldn't use Medicaid or private insurance for state employees to cover the expenses. -
A proposal for a wildlife overpass a few years ago in eastern Idaho has politicized the issue for that region. -
A fully-fledged infestation could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars to protect infrastructure from the creatures that affix onto hard surfaces in the water, including irrigation and hydropower equipment. -
In five years, the number of Idaho farming operations fell, but their average size got bigger. -
Rep. Mike Simpson said the measure blocks the Lava Ridge Wind Project until the Secretary of the Interior takes certain steps. -
The storms brought about a week of considerable or high avalanche danger, with several reports of large avalanches in central Idaho, some hundreds or thousands of feet wide.
