Amelia Templeton / OPB

Job Title

EarthFix journalist, based in Medford, Oregon

What I cover

Farming, forestry, and Southern Oregon.

Bio

Amelia grew up in Portland. She got her journalism start at Swarthmore College, reporting for a podcast. She spent several years working as an advocate for refugees in Washington, D.C. and the Middle East.

Amelia returned to the Pacific Northwest, and to reporting, in 2009. She has roamed from northern California to Wyoming producing stories for OPB, National Public Radio, Marketplace, and the Northwest News Network.

This year she stared exploring documentary film and photography and convinced a bison to snort into her microphone. Amelia is a committed backpacker. She likes larch trees, salal, and eelgrass. She does not like poison oak. Her favorite food is croutons.

Contact

email / desk 541-779-0808 x222 / cell 503-752-2388 / twitter / facebook


Recent Articles:

Fix Your Coordinates: Southern Oregon's Wildflower Gardens

May 9, 2012

Strange Wildflowers Thrive In Harsh Siskiyou Soils

May 9, 2012

Fired Scientist Returns With Doubts About Klamath Dam Removal

May 7, 2012

BPA Orders NW Wind Farms to Curtail Production

April 30, 2012

Feds Back Down From Plans To Close E. Oregon Forest Roads

April 18, 2012

International Investors Want In On Oregon Coast Coal Terminal

April 18, 2012

How Coal Helped Build The Port of Coos Bay

April 18, 2012

How EarthFix Identified The Coos Coal Export Negotiators

April 18, 2012

How Barred Owls Win The Fight For Forest and Food

April 12, 2012

Researchers Say Wolves Help Plants By Eating Deer, Elk

April 11, 2012

Forest Service To Buy Parcels in the Northwest

April 6, 2012

Coos Bay Rail Needs Overhaul To Handle Coal

April 4, 2012

Future of Third LNG Proposal for Oregon Coast In Question

March 29, 2012

Pipeline, Terminal Would Export Natural Gas From Coos Bay

March 28, 2012

Water Will Flow To Southern Oregon Farms

March 26, 2012

For Klamath Tribes, Suckerfish Mean Renewed Life

March 26, 2012

Avian Cholera Plagues Waterfowl In Klamath Basin Refuge

March 26, 2012

Interstate 5 Goes Electric From Canadian Border to California State Line

March 16, 2012

Chorus Frog May Carry A Deadly Infection

March 16, 2012

Walden: GOP Leaders Back Timber Payment Extension

March 14, 2012

Spotted Owl Plan Calls For Shotguns, Logging And Private Land Restrictions

Feb. 28, 2012

Secretary Salazar Visits Oregon to Promote Ecological Timber Sales

Feb. 21, 2012

Two House Bills Would Direct Forest Funds to Cash-Strapped Counties

Feb. 16, 2012

Watch Local Focus: Dollars & Trees

Feb. 14, 2012

Why Mt. Hood Never Erupts With A Bang

Feb. 13, 2012

Televised Forum on Oregon Forest Plan Produces Sparks

Feb. 7, 2012

DeFazio, Walden Push Plan, Not Details, For More Logging

Jan. 26, 2012

Does Mount St. Helens Have Lessons for an Oregon Logging Experiment?

Jan. 12, 2012

6 Things You Should Know About the Triangle Lake Pesticide Investigation

Jan. 5, 2012

Coast Range Community Receives Lab Results From Pesticide Investigation

Jan. 2, 2012

Field Notes: In Oregon's Cascades, A Lone Wolf

Dec. 15, 2011

More Coal Is On The Northwest Grid Than You Think

Dec. 9, 2011

Thinking 'Climate Change' While You Shop

Dec. 8, 2011

Department of Energy Gives Jordan Cove License to Export Natural Gas

Dec. 7, 2011

How A Tiny Fungus is Starving Coastal Douglas Fir Trees

Nov. 17, 2011

A Guide to Haze in the Columbia River Gorge

Nov. 16, 2011

Friends of the Gorge: Pollution Plan Won't Clear the Air

Nov. 14, 2011

Merkley Senate Bill Would Authorize Klamath Dam Removal

Nov. 10, 2011

Vulnerable Trees of the Northwest: A Future Field Guide

Nov. 3, 2011

Collared Wolf in Oregon Cascades Could Lead Scientists To Others

Nov. 1, 2011

Judge Upholds Pesticide Limits in West Coast Salmon Streams

Oct. 31, 2011

Spotted Owl in Bend Dies, Leaving a Large Family Behind

Oct. 28, 2011

OSU Study: Woody Biomass Not a Good Substitute For Fossil Fuels

Oct. 23, 2011

Canada Struggles to Breed Spotted Owls in Captivity

Oct. 21, 2011

Logging Oregon's Elliott State Forest: Five Things You Should Know

Oct. 11, 2011

Searching in Streams For Oregon's Aquatic Mushroom

Oct. 5, 2011

Fix Your Coordinates: Spotting Aquatic Mushrooms

Oct. 5, 2011

Marbled Murrelet Will Make Do With Less Habitat

Oct. 4, 2011

Southern Oregon Landowners Object To Plans to Export Natural Gas

Sept. 23, 2011

Pipeline Rep says Benefits of LNG Export Terminal "Remain To Be Seen"

Sept. 23, 2011

Congress Must Approve Klamath Dam Deal by March

Sept. 22, 2011

Biologists Move Threatened Chinook As Condit Dam Comes Down

Sept. 20, 2011

Klamath Falls Housing Added to Superfund List

Sept. 15, 2011

Feds To Release Key Studies on Klamath River Dam Removal

Sept. 14, 2011

China Snaps Up Logs From The Northwest

Sept. 1, 2011

Bend Museum Shows Off the Wild Side of Its Captive Birds

Aug. 30, 2011

Capturing Sounds and Silence at Crater Lake

Aug. 29, 2011

Field Notes: From Mexico to Canada, in Time for 6th Grade

Aug. 18, 2011

Slideshow: On Your Mark, Get Set... Paint!

Aug. 12, 2011

Oregon Irrigators Embrace Hydropower

Aug. 5, 2011

Young Oregon Farmers Bring Back the Draft Horse

July 28, 2011

Conifers Drink Lightly In Wet Northwest Winters

July 25, 2011

Scientists Scramble to Save Crater Lake’s Whitebark Pine

July 25, 2011

Klamath's Dam Fine Summer Whitewater Might Go Slack

July 18, 2011

Fix Your Coordinates: Rafting Southern Oregon and Northern California

July 17, 2011

Congress Debates Future of County Timber Payments

July 13, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service Will Tackle Species Backlog

July 12, 2011

Feds Settle Lawsuit Over Forests' Spiders, Snails

July 8, 2011

Map: Spotted Owl on the Decline

June 30, 2011

Klamath Basin's Solar-Powered Potato Chips

June 15, 2011

One Last Ride Into a Northwest Forest Canopy

June 13, 2011