Hannah Habermann
Rural and Tribal ReporterHannah Habermann is the rural and tribal reporter for Wyoming Public Radio. She has a degree in Environmental Studies and Non-Fiction Writing from Middlebury College and was the co-creator of the podcast Yonder Lies: Unpacking the Myths of Jackson Hole. Hannah also received the Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing & Journalism Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council in 2021 and has taught backpacking and climbing courses throughout the West with the National Outdoor Leadership School.
Originally from Billings, Montana, Hannah is passionate about the transformative power of storytelling. In her free time, she loves spending time in the mountains, reading, petting other people's dogs, and playing music with friends.
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Sagebrush ecosystem conservation got another big boost in September, thanks to the Biden Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced more than $10.5 million of funding for projects throughout the West and on the Wind River Reservation.
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How can technology help address the challenges facing a rural state like Wyoming? This year’s Wyoming Global Technology Summit is bringing entrepreneurs, business founders, policymakers, educators, and leaders together in the Tetons to talk solutions with a focus on leveraging technology for rural growth.
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Earlier this year, a collaboration between state and local Tribal officials removed about 2,000 feral horses from the Wind River Reservation to help manage the over-capacity population. At a meeting of the Wyoming Legislature’s Select Committee on Tribal Relations in Fort Washakie in July, Special Council to the Governor Kit Wendtland said the feral horse removal efforts were a “big success,” but some reservation residents disagreed.
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Sagebrush ecosystem conservation just got another big boost thanks to the Biden Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Amidst a field of sagebrush at the Washakie Reservoir on the Wind River Reservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Deputy Director Siva Sundaresan announced that more than $10.5 million will go to help protect the iconic Western landscape this year.
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Eleanor Davis became the first known woman to climb the Grand Teton in 1923 – a hundred years later, a group of all women summited the peak in her honor. The centennial celebration also brought together a panel of five trailblazing women who shared reflections on other record-setting accomplishments in the mountain range.
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Kira Dawn is a musician from Lyman, a small town east of Evanston with a population of just over 2,100 people. She’s only been writing her own songs for about a year, but she just won the state's Singer-Songwriter competition in Ten Sleep over Labor Day weekend.
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The top of Snow King Mountain Resort in Jackson will soon be home to the state’s second-largest telescope. In an effort to help both the public and professionals connect more with the night sky, the resort is currently building a planetarium and an observatory that will house a state-of-the-art telescope with a meter-wide mirror.
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The Eastern Shoshone Tribe opened the Eastern Shoshone Children’s Lodge this summer to provide temporary care for kids placed into protective custody. The new lodge offers a safe place for kids in need to land while still keeping them connected to their communities and culture.
