Riley Board, KDLL

Riley Board is a Report For America reporter covering rural communities on the central Kenai Peninsula for KDLL. She enjoys reporting on local government and education. Her work has appeared on Science Friday, National Native News and Alaska Public Media.

Board is a graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied linguistics, English literature and German, and was editor-in-chief of The Middlebury Campus, the student newspaper. She has interned at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, and at Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife Magazine in Washington D.C. Board hails from Sarasota, Florida.

Science and Environment

Pipeline proposed to power Donlin mine could have impacts from Y-K Delta to Cook Inlet

Sage Smiley

If it’s built, the Donlin Gold mine project on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta would be one of the largest open-pit gold mines in the world, powered by a gas pipeline that would stretch hundreds of miles across the state to Cook Inlet.