This story is published in partnership with InvestigateWest and the Methow Valley News. Susan Speir thought they’d have more time. When wildfires started spreading near Speir’s home in Washington’s Methow Valley on July 17, 2014, she and her husband prepared to evacuate. They packed up valuables and keepsakes — her antique collection, prints from her […]
Author Archives: Molly Taft
Molly Taft’s work has appeared in Vice, The Intercept, Buzzfeed, Teen Vogue and elsewhere. She was most recently a writer at Nexus Media News, a nonprofit newswire, where she contributed pieces on science and climate change and wrote a daily morning newsletter of climate change news. She earned a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School and a bachelor’s from Bowdoin College.