Chris Welter
Chris Welter is an Environmental Reporter at WYSO through Report for America. In 2017, he completed the radio training program at WYSO's Eichelberger Center for Community Voices. Prior to joining the team at WYSO, he did boots-on-the-ground conservation work and policy research on land-use issues in southwest Ohio as a Miller Fellow with the Tecumseh Land Trust.
He is a graduate of Antioch College with a self-designed B.S. in Environmental Journalism and a French Language & Culture focus. He edited the The Antioch Record and later served as chair of the newspaper's advisory board. Through the college's cooperative education program, he interned with an environmental education non-profit in Ypsilanti, MI and worked as a paralegal assistant at a criminal defense firm in Chicago and a bankruptcy center in Philadelphia.
Chris is a lifelong Ohioan, born and raised in Columbus and currently living in Yellow Springs with his two cats, Beaver and Franklin. He moonlights as a mediocre disc golfer and also loves to cook, hike, and read about Ohio history.
-
Senate Bill 52 gives more power to local communities to determine where they want utility-scale solar facilities sited in their communities, the bill's co-sponsor said. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentThe city of Dayton is threatening to sue Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Department of Defense over forever chemicals in the city's drinking water. -
The Conscious Connect partnered with Dr. Sarah Fortner's Wittenberg Research Methods Class. -
On a few nights when the conditions are just right in early spring, the yellow spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) migrates from its home in the forest to seasonal bodies of water called vernal pools to reproduce. -
The Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) produces its own heat with the energy stored in its deep roots. That’s why they’re the first wildflower to bloom each spring in Ohio. -
Charles E. Dressler, or Ed, was a longtime public servant, and an advocate for the environment. He was also an icon for the rails-to-trails movement in Ohio. -
Activists recently petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up the Ohio River.The petition calls for federally mandated numeric water… -
Naturalist George Bieri says the last few years have been tough on the pawpaw -
Show promoter and animal producer Ron Billingsley says his sales have quadrupled since the pandemic began last year. -
Since a company that runs a local biodigester stopped accepting human waste last year, the Village of Yellow Springs now disposes of their wastewater by-product differently
