Caroline Llanes
Rural Climate ReporterCaroline Llanes is the rural climate reporter for Rocky Mountain Community Radio. She covers climate change in the rural Mountain West, energy development, outdoor recreation, public lands, and so much more. Her work has been featured on NPR and APM's Marketplace.
She was previously a general assignment reporter at Aspen Public Radio, covering everything from local governments to public lands, and before that, she worked on WBUR's Morning Edition in Boston. She got her start in public radio at Michigan Public in Ann Arbor, where she also got a B.A. in history from the University of Michigan.
When she's not working, she's probably watching football, women's basketball, or a British murder mystery. She lives in Glenwood Springs with her partner and their little dog (Poppy) and cat (Pepper), where they spend a lot of time hiking and skiing of both the downhill and cross-country varieties.
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Jay Weiner, the water attorney for the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe on the Colorado River in Arizona and California, discusses how tribes play a role in Colorado River governance, even if they’re not officially in the closed-door negotiations. -
Record-low snowpack across the Upper Colorado River Basin will likely translate to poor conditions for spring runoff, and could mean emergency action to supplement low water levels in Lake Powell. -
Staffers from Rep. Mike Kennedy’s (R-Utah) office spoke with Emery County’s Public Lands Board during their monthly meeting, and said the lawmaker was having discussions related to Bears Ears National Monument, to “roll back the size of the monument and, and shrink it down.” -
The heat wave comes in the midst of an already challenging winter for the Rocky Mountains, compounding months of warm and dry conditions. -
Rain Enhancement Technologies, a private company, is testing a different approach to cloud seeding at a couple of project sites in the Rocky Mountains. The method is known as ionization cloud seeding and doesn’t use silver iodide. -
Utah’s congressional delegation is using the Congressional Review Act to throw out the resource management plan for the nearly 2 million-acre landscape. Congress has not used the CRA to undo resource management plans before. -
The Supreme Court will decide whether Boulder and Boulder County can sue fossil fuels companies for damages caused by climate change. ExxonMobil and Suncor USA say states are pre-empted by federal law, but the Colorado Supreme Court disagreed. -
The seven states that rely on the Colorado River need to figure out who will take cuts to water usage as climate change worsens drought in the basin. The federal government needs to start an environmental review process in order to have any new operating guidelines in place by October. -
Below average snowfall this year is hurting the ski industry’s bottom line in the Rocky Mountains, as resorts work to get guests on the slope with less snow. CSU Professor Michael Childers says this should prompt long-term thinking about climate change and the ski industry. -
The annual Conservation in the West poll from Colorado College shows that Western voters are worried about water quality and wildfire, and want their elected officials to take action on protecting public lands. The poll shows variation among states and demographic groups.
