Li Murphy is an Colorado-born, Idaho-raised entomologist, writer and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at Yale School of the Environment. She has spent the summer of 2025 tracking Mormon cricket swarms across Nevada, Idaho and Utah — including on the Uintah and Ouray as well as Duck Valley Reservations — with drones, insect-mounted cameras and a focus on connecting ecological research with the memories of multigenerational land stewards and all eyes on the future of the West.
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