Olivia Weitz
Multimedia JournalistOlivia Weitz is based at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody. She covers Yellowstone National Park, wildlife, and arts and culture throughout the region. Olivia’s work has aired on NPR and member stations across the Mountain West. She is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound and the Transom story workshop. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing, cooking, and going to festivals that celebrate folk art and music.
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A fourteen-piece ragtime orchestra made up of Black musicians performed with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show for two seasons in the early 1900s.
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At the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, there’s a wall-size panoramic photo of Wild West Show performers, and in it there's a group of Black musicians.Siriana Lundgren studies the musical history of the American West as a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. There wasn't much known about Ferris's Satisfied Musical Entertainers, who toured with the Wild West Show for two seasons in the early 1900s – until Siriana interned at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West last summer.
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The pinyon jay, a blue, robin-sized bird, can help some species of pine trees regenerate by spreading seeds across the landscape. But the bird’s population is declining and researchers want to know more.
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The Bureau of Land Management is planning about a dozen prescribed burns in Wyoming this year in an effort to mitigate future fire risk.
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One of the few remaining structures at a former Japanese internment camp in Northwest Wyoming is one step closer to being restored.
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A community-based organization says Northwest Wyoming could benefit from filling in a gap on America’s first cross-country trail.
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Nan Aspinwall is the first woman to ride across the country solo on horseback. She completed the nearly 4,500 mile journey from San Francisco to New York in 1911.
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A non profit that focuses on forest restoration is recognizing Yellowstone National Park’s Superintendent for his work conserving Whitebark Pine.
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On Tuesday, county officials in Cody approved a document that will guide future land use decisions. But, some residents are still unhappy that some wildlife data in an earlier draft of the plan was left out.
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Open Spaces show rundown for March 15, 2024