April Ehrlich
Oregon Public BroadcastingApril Ehrlich began freelancing for Jefferson Public Radio in the fall of 2016, and then officially joined the team as its Morning Edition Host and a Jefferson Exchange producer in August 2017.
She previously worked as a reporter for the Roseburg News-Review, where she covered city government and housing. Before that, she covered the oil and gas industry and local government on the Oregon-Idaho border.
April served a two-year stint with AmeriCorps, where she worked with nonprofits helping low-income communities in rural Oregon. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English at Cal-State University, Fullerton, where she worked as an editor for the campus paper.
When she is not at work or napping between shifts, April is likely hiking through nearby forests with a rambunctious border collie, or reading fiction at home with her two favorite cats.
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The agency gave the public one week to weigh in on plans to log 5,000 acres of the Akawa Butte Fire burn area. -
Oregon and Washington have their own policies protecting gray wolves from recreational hunting. -
The court decision upholds Oregon's recycling law that shifts recycling costs onto corporations. -
Oregon has already seen more acres burn in 2026 than in all of 2025, and fire officials warn there’s still a lot of wildfire season to get through. This story will be updated with the latest on large wildfires burning across the state Wednesday. -
People on the Warm Springs Reservation have evacuated, and other communities in Central and Eastern Oregon are threatened as more than 1 million acres in Oregon have been consumed by wildfires. -
The Trump administration is overhauling the U.S. Endangered Species Act. But that hasn’t changed Oregon’s conservation plans, at least not yet. -
More than 1,000 people in Oregon have been evacuated from their homes because of wildfires. -
The federal government has released its long-awaited proposal to triple logging across three national forests in northeast Oregon and southeast Washington. -
The Oregon Court of Appeals will also weigh whether to allow a judge who previously represented PacifiCorp to stay on the case. -
When it comes to carbon storage, trees get a lot of attention. But researchers are now finding carbon trapped in unusual places, including ancient landslides. -
The roadless rule has long prevented new road construction in certain forests, including 8 million acres in Oregon, California and Washington. -
Federal judge rules BLM ignored “significant evidence” of protected old growth forests within its logging plans.
