Bryce Dix
Morning Edition HostBryce Dix is our local host for NPR's Morning Edition.
A native Burqueño, Bryce has lived in New Mexico his whole life and reports on a multitude of climate and environmental issues in the state and across the Southwest.
Previously, he worked with New Mexico PBS and served as interim news director for Santa Fe’s KSFR radio station. He’s fascinated by big government decisions on land use, endangered species, and the transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy.
When he doesn’t have a microphone in hand, you can find Bryce trail running in the Bosque or exploring one of New Mexico's many wild places.
Have story ideas? Email Bryce.
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For years, ranchers have butted heads with conservationists and the federal government – claiming that the endangered Mexican gray wolf is a serious threat to their local economies and public safety. -
Ahead of the primary election, KUNM answers a listener question about the Commissioner of the New Mexico State Land Office and what it does. -
Fire ecologists have made a surprisingly unintuitive discovery after analyzing 30 years of wildfire data, especially as the West grapples with profound drought and hotter weather. -
A notoriously destructive insect once eradicated from the United States is seeing a resurgence in Mexico – and ranchers are worried that it will soon cross the border to wreak havoc on their livestock. -
This year, five artists from around the country were chosen for the Valles Caldera summer artist-in-residence program, where creatives will spend up to four weeks totally immersed in the area’s surreal volcanic landscape. -
Almost a month after the Trump Administration announced it was going to "restructure" the U.S. Forest Service, environmental groups are growing increasingly worried about what this move means for a number of important, historical files in the agency’s archives. -
The federal government is touting a new plan that they say will cut "bureaucratic red tape” in order to support ranchers and lower consumer prices. At the same time, activists say it could also impact federal Mexican gray wolf populations. -
Every two years, the state of New Mexico reviews a list of critters it considers either threatened or endangered from climate change, habitat loss, and other factors – and now’s the chance for the public to weigh-in. -
A recently published scientific study has found that common wildfire reduction strategies in the Southwest – like tree thinning and prescribed burning – are detrimental for some declining bird populations. -
The numbers of the Great Backyard Bird Count are now in and KUNM analyzed the data to figure out which birds were seen the most – and least – in New Mexico.
