Prior to joining Mountain Journal, Juhlin was Montana Public Radio’s first Environment and Climate reporter. For four years she covered state and federal policy, wildlife, natural resources, and agriculture – and the threads of climate change woven throughout those stories. She is experienced in converting local stories for a national audience and her pieces are regularly picked up by NPR. Her journalism career began unconventionally. While getting her master’s in ecology at Utah State University, she began working as a science reporter for her local public radio station. Through that experience with Utah Public Radio, she fell in love with storytelling and being able to use her research background to communicate to a wide audience. In addition to her master’s, she also has an undergraduate degree in ecology. When she’s not reporting you can find her birding, or on a trail with her three dogs or wrangling a bevy of runner ducks at her home in western Montana.
Beat: The reporter will cover wildlife, public lands, water and wildfire, and their impacts on communities and landscapes in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in collaboration with High Country News
The environmental reporter covers the complex intersections of land, water, wildlife, public lands, law, energy development, business practices, and rural life across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which encompasses parts of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. They may also report on environmental matters in other parts of Montana. Through the High Country News Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative, the reporter produces in-depth, contextual stories on how public lands are managed, governed and contested, with a particular focus on state and national parks, national forests, BLM lands, and other publicly owned landscapes. They will be prepared to investigate and explain how public-lands management decisions, environmental law, energy development, greenwashing, and business practices affect communities, wildlife and landscapes. As part of an innovative environmental reporting team at Montana Free Press, Mountain Journal, and High Country News, the reporter examines how power, policy and money shape conservation outcomes, recreation, access, resource extraction and stewardship. They split time between Mountain Journal and High Country News, pursuing local reporting while collaborating on regional projects that deepen understanding of public-lands management, environmental law, energy policy and accountability across the West. Experience with visual journalism, document-based reporting, newsletter writing and social media reporting is valued, though not essential. Along with writing articles, the reporter will contribute to a new environmental newsletter produced by Montana Free Press and Mountain Journal and participate in social media and visual reporting. The successful candidate will be able to develop a wide range of sources — including state and national park staff, land management agencies, attorneys, regulators, industry representatives, and conservation groups.