Felicity Barringer is a writer-in-residence at Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West. From 2003 to 2014, she was an environmental writer at The New York Times, doing extensive work on policies involving Western public lands and water issues. During a 38-year career at The Times and The Washington Post, she also covered the media industry, the United Nations, and state and local government in Maryland. From 1985 through 1988, she reported from Moscow for The Times.
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