Dave Wilderotter, aka “Tahoe Dave,” offers current and former employees affordable housing in Truckee, California. Wilderotter purchased a downtown Truckee lot and filled it with tiny homes to help with the housing situation his employees find themselves in.

Titus "Stretch" Gall founded Tower Tech, Inc., a mobile air traffic control tower company that works air traffic for Western U.S. wildfires. Tower Tech has four mobile towers that can be on site at a fire within 24 hours of a call. Each self-contained mobile unit houses a tower, radio and computer equipment, a kitchen, bathroom, sleeping quarters, satellite hookups and a generator. Tower Tech is also called to work special events such as South Lake Tahoe's celebrity golf tournament, air shows, etc. I successfully pitched this story to Reuters in Spring 2021. REUTERS VIDEO https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/1621456 REUTERS STORY https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/mobile-air-traffic-control-tower-aids-california-wildfire-fight-2021-06-15/

Backlash to Newsom's lockdown order grows - rural communities refuse to comply. On assignment for the San Francisco Chronicle. https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Backlash-to-Newsom-s-lockdown-order-grows-15789905.php

Independent photojournalist, Tracy Barbutes, on assignment for The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-national-parks-reopen-nearby-businesses-play-it-safe-11595336400

Gender Diversity on the Fire Line. Women have a long history in the U.S. Forest Service, from the first all-woman wildland firefighting crew assembled in 1942 in California, to the first female smoke jumper in 1981. Women currently make up approximately 13% of the USFS work force. In August 2018, I accompanied some of the women and men fighting the Donnell Fire in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. A few of their stories were featured in an article in High Country News. https://www.hcn.org/articles/photos-gender-diversity-on-the-fire-line-california-donnell

On assignment for The Guardian in Siskiyou County, California. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/21/california-drought-hmong-americans-race-water

American politics. Photographs from the 2020 presidential campaign, with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Beto O'Rourke, Jay Inslee.