The Modern West

11/13/2025

Podcast Episode · The Modern West · S11 E2 · 28m

11/13/2025

Podcast Episode · The Modern West · S11 E2 · 28m

11/13/2025

Podcast Episode · The Modern West · S11 E2 · 28m

10/29/2025

In episode #1 of Cheap Dirt, I share my story of living off grid in a glorified tent in northern Arizona. And discuss why it's not fair to rely on westerners to go off grid as an answer to our housing shortage. 8 of the top 10 states with the worst shortages are in the American West. This season I travel around the west talking to people finding weird housing solutions like mine. Take a listen!

Podcast Episode · The Modern West · S11 E1 · 35m

07/02/2025

The Gray In Between is taking a quick break this week to share another podcast with you. It’s all about why teachers are leaving the profession and produced by our former sound designer, Charles Fournier. I’m also the editor on this project! Highly recommend.

The Modern West presents Those Who Can't Teach Anymore Season 2

This time, an episode from another podcast we care a lot about. It’s called Those Who Can’t Teach Anymore, produced by Charles Fournier, the former sound designer of the Modern West.

https://ow.ly/mGhK50WjPv6

06/23/2025

Our latest episode takes a ride deep into the National Elk Refuge to find out about how chronic wasting disease is banging at the door here. Take a listen and let us know what you think.

Coming out Tuesday – Wasting Away – Episode 6 of The Modern West

Hop in a pickup as we head out into the National Elk Refuge outside Jackson, WY to hear all about the debate over whether to wean elk off winter feeding before chronic wasting disease strikes.

https://www.themodernwest.org/

05/30/2025

My episode about Pinedale Roundup editor Cali O'Hare and how she manages when her entire staff is laid off by her corporate publisher. And what happens when major global news breaks on her watch. Take a listen and let me know what you think!

05/14/2025

Woohoo!

Wyoming Public Media has been awarded three prestigious Regional Edward R. awards. Congratulations to Caitlin Tan and Melodie Edwards!

🏆Excellence in Sound - Beavers do it best. Humans recreate the animal’s engineering to restore a waterway in Sweetwater County
🏆Hard News - Anthrax. Cattle. Ranchers. Government mistrust. The fallout of Elk Mountain’s rare disease outbreak
🏆News Documentary - Wolves #2101 and #2301: Part Three of High Altitude Tales

Check out our Linktree to see the winning stories and podcast: https://ow.ly/2ZYM50VSURS

“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.” - Edward Murrow

05/07/2025

A brave and amazing new episode by WPR's own Caitlin Tan. Take a listen.

04/29/2025

Need some road tripping storytelling as you cross the American West? You’re welcome.

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Photo by Howie Garber

02/08/2024

On December 14, just two weeks before the two year anniversary of the Marshall Fire, The Modern West hosted a panel over Facebook Live. We featured Ariel’s family and friends, who you’ll recognize from The Burn Scar, along with someone from Paradise, California, who survived the fire that raged through that community.

The panel offered our guests an opportunity to share their experience of living through climate disaster, and presented a look toward the future. In this special bonus episode, we share an edited version of this panel discussion and give you a unique perspective on living in a climate crisis.

Listen: apple.co/4bteBwU

01/25/2024

Ariel makes the trip out to see the new construction of her family home. But it's nothing like the one that burned down in the Marshall Fire. Her feeling of solastalgia is long gone.

"It's clear to me that this place doesn't resemble my childhood home at all," says Ariel. "The feeling I had of familiarity isn't really here anymore."

It's the final episode of . Listen now: apple.co/48OPUcG