Kate and Aaron are joined by Boise State Public Radio’s Murphy Woodhouse, a reporter with the Mountain West News Bureau collaborative. Murphy covers wildfires and wildfire policy across the West, informed by his past experience as a wildland firefighter. In a wide-ranging discussion, Murphy talks about the bleak state of wildfire pay, the possibility of much of the West becoming uninsurable because of wildfire risk, and much more.

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• Interior Department holds community meeting on Chuckwalla National Monument
  
• Sen. Michael Bennet addresses the misinformation campaign on the Dolores River
  
• Bonus editorial: Dolores monument proposal depends on compromise
  
• White House swears in first class of the American Climate Corps
  

Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

Feedback: podcast@westernpriorities.org

Music: Purple Planet

Featured image: The 2021 Ponina Fire in Oregon, Oregon Department of Forestry

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