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Visual journalist for @sltrib with interest in water, public lands. Fmr @coloradoan @billingsgazette Dog mama & outdoor junkie in the West IG: bethanybakerpics
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Stephanie's Story: Suing Her OBGYN For Alleged Sexual Assault in Utah

Stephanie's Story: Suing Her OBGYN For Alleged Sexual Assault in Utah

YouTube — This video describes sexual assault. More than 90 women have joined a lawsuit alleging sexual assault by Utah OB-GYN Dr. David Broadbent, who had an office near Brigham Young University. Their case was dismissed because in Utah, when medical professionals are accused of assault, the civil legal system sees it as medical malpractice.
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Utahns protest Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, triggering Utah's abortion ban

Utahns protest Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, triggering Utah's abortion ban

YouTube — Utahns gathered by the thousands at Washington Square Park before marching to the Utah State Capitol steps Friday, June 24, 2022 in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade. The court's decision sent the power to regulate abortions back to individual states, triggering a Utah law that now bans almost all abortions in the Beehive State.
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What is Lake Powell and why does it matter?

What is Lake Powell and why does it matter?

YouTube — Lake Powell is the second-largest reservoir in the United States. It was created when the Glen Canyon Dam was constructed along the Colorado River near Page, Arizona. The Colorado River provides water to seven states in the American Southwest. The reservoir faces increased challenges as climate change and increased water needs demand more from the crucial water source.
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Missing and Murdered

Missing and Murdered

bethanybaker.net — Henny Scott, a 14-year-old girl from Montana's Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, was missing 19 days before the FBI acted on her mother's pleas and issued a public advisory. Scott's snow-covered body was found on the reservation she called home two days later. Scott's story is not unique on Native American reservations.
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Buried landscapes are reemerging as Lake Powell's water level drops

Buried landscapes are reemerging as Lake Powell's water level drops

YouTube — (Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) As water levels recede in Lake Powell, previously buried landscapes are reemerging and reestablishing with vibrant native ecosystems. Research scientist and ecologist Seth Arens discusses what he's seeing in the side canyons no longer buried from Lake Powell. Check out the full story at sltrib.com.
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Utah teen fights rare lung cancer without sacrificing her love for softball

Utah teen fights rare lung cancer without sacrificing her love for softball

YouTube — Kiki Feliciano has been fighting a rare form of lung cancer since 2019. Doctors have chipped away at her lung for more than three years, removing cancerous tumors as they arrive. They've advised, multiple times, that she let them cut out the lung entirely. She may only have a few months to live if she doesn't.
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Some say Fresh Donuts & Deli makes the best doughnuts in Utah

Some say Fresh Donuts & Deli makes the best doughnuts in Utah

YouTube — Fresh Donuts & Deli in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been ranked as one of the best doughnut shops in the country by Yelp. Video by Bethany Baker of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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President Joe Biden lands in Utah to close out three-state Western trip

President Joe Biden lands in Utah to close out three-state Western trip

YouTube — President Joe Biden is greeted by Gov. Spencer Cox and other local leaders as he closes out his three-day Western trip. The president will address Pact Act benefits for military veterans and attend a high-dollar fundraiser in Park City. To read more, check out https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/08/09/president-joe-biden-lands-utah/ Video by Bethany Baker of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Utah horse sanctuary joins fight to end horse slaughter pipeline to foreign markets

Utah horse sanctuary joins fight to end horse slaughter pipeline to foreign markets

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George Floyd death: Hundreds gather in Denver to protest police killing

George Floyd death: Hundreds gather in Denver to protest police killing

The Coloradoan — People gathered to protest at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer earlier this week.
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Fort Collins woman explains decision to take aid-in-dying medication

Fort Collins woman explains decision to take aid-in-dying medication

The Coloradoan — Living with end-stage COPD, Fort Collins woman explains her decision to take aid-in-dying medication and her family's response.
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What Fort Collins can learn from San Antonio about a centralized homeless center

What Fort Collins can learn from San Antonio about a centralized homeless center

The Coloradoan — Homelessness in downtown San Antonio has decreased by 80 percent since opening their centralized homeless center. That success story is drawing attention from Fort Collins and beyond.
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Friends and family march for Henny Scott

Friends and family march for Henny Scott

youtube.com — Friends and family march through Lame Deer for 14-year-old Henny Scott who was found dead on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Community members speak on the issue of murdered and missing indigenous women. Photos, audio, and editing by Bethany Baker / Billings Gazette
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Horseback riders get hooked on cowboy mounted shooting at equestrian club south of Laurel

Horseback riders get hooked on cowboy mounted shooting at equestrian club south of Laurel

Billings Gazette — Riders and their horses clear the far side of the arena at the Cottonwood Equestrian Center in Silesia as a mounted shooter lopes his horse around to line up for his first balloon targets. Matt Lambert, a member of Big Sky Gunrunners, shoots at his 10 balloon targets before turning for home and the finish line.
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Fort Collins heads to Womxn's March Denver

Fort Collins heads to Womxn's March Denver

The Coloradoan — Northern Colorado NOW took a bus of people to Denver for the Womxn's March
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Teens share what brings them joy as queer students during Pride month

Teens share what brings them joy as queer students during Pride month

YouTube — Queer students in Utah shared what brings them joy as we kick off Pride month 2023. Video by Bethany Baker and Leah Hogsten of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Food insecurity is on the rise in Utah, and how you can help.

Food insecurity is on the rise in Utah, and how you can help.

YouTube — Food insecurity is on the rise in Utah, and how you can help. To read more, check out https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/07/06/why-hunger-is-rise-utah-how-you/ Video by Bethany Baker of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Salt Lake City honors 159 homeless deaths during candlelight vigil

Salt Lake City honors 159 homeless deaths during candlelight vigil

YouTube — Utahns paid tribute to the 154 homeless deaths in 2022 during a candlelight vigil in downtown Salt Lake City. The ceremony was held on the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. Five more homeless individuals were honored that died prior to 2022. To read more about it, check out https://trib.al/D4dGE5I.
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Utah Supreme Court Justice Jill Pohlman reflects on new female majority on Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Justice Jill Pohlman reflects on new female majority on Utah Supreme Court

YouTube — There is a female majority on the Utah Supreme Court after the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Jill Pohlman. The new justice reflects on that new majority as well as her experiences as a woman in her career. To read more about the new female majority on the Utah Supreme Court, check out the full story at https://trib.al/izdVQCD.
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Experience Utah's Castle of Chaos, a haunted house of fear

Experience Utah's Castle of Chaos, a haunted house of fear

YouTube — Castle of Chaos, claiming to be Utah's only underground haunted house, frightens visitors with five levels of fear during their nightly haunts this Halloween season. Beginning in 2009, owner James Bernard set a five-level system, so guests who sign waivers can choose their own experience, based on the amount of scariness they want: Level One * Guests are given glow sticks they can use like a wand to scare monsters away.
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Utah pet shelter seeks forever homes for their rescues

Utah pet shelter seeks forever homes for their rescues

YouTube — Utah pet shelter Nuzzles & Co. rescues animals, provides necessary medical care and seeks out the perfect forever homes. The shelter also brings in dogs from Navajo Nation through their Rez Rescue program. Of the 1,203 animals that Nuzzles & Co. took in during 2022, 473 of them - 39% - were from reservations.
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Utah veterinarian helping save reindeer as the species at risk of extinction

Utah veterinarian helping save reindeer as the species at risk of extinction

YouTube — To help save reindeer species, Utah veterinarian Issac Bott treats and artificially inseminates reindeer at his clinic and around the world in order to prop up the threatened species' population. Bott uses artificial insemination to help add to the global population and keep domestic herds genetically diverse.
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Utah backcountry guides say a lack of permits makes the Wasatch canyons less safe, harder to acce...

Utah backcountry guides say a lack of permits makes the Wasatch canyons less safe, harder to acce...

YouTube — Local guides call for more permitting in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. Citing staffing shortages, the Salt Lake Ranger District has paused issuing temporary, six-month permits to outfitters and guides for the lands it oversees in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. That has frustrated and infuriated local backcountry guides.
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Armed Proud Boys protest outside all-ages drag show in Salt Lake City

Armed Proud Boys protest outside all-ages drag show in Salt Lake City

YouTube — A group of armed Proud Boys protested outside a monthly all-ages drag show at Tea Zaanti, a local wine and tea shop in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Five people dressed in black, yellow and camo - identifying themselves as being with the Salt Lake chapter of the Proud Boys - stood on the public sidewalk in the freezing cold.
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