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  • Whirling disease hits Yellowstone

    Yellowstone National Park’s cutthroat trout, already threatened by illegally introduced lake trout, are now facing increasing danger from whirling disease

    by Mike Stark, Nov 24, 2003

  • Rebuilding a road to prosperity

    Residents of Packwood, Wash., want to attract tourists with a rebuilt highway through Mount St. Helens National Monument, but conservationists and scientists say the road would impact wildlife and be dangerous and geologically unstable.

    by Mike Stark, Oct 08, 2001

  • High court weeds out pesticides

    Under the Clean Water Act, aquatic pesticides can no longer be used in public waterways without a federal permit.

    by Mike Stark, May 21, 2001

  • Will logging save the spotted owl?

    In Oregon, a plan to selectively log the Clatsop and Tillamook state forests is supposed to improve habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl, but conservationists have their doubts.

    by Mike Stark, Mar 12, 2001

  • Wind power spins into the energy mainstream

    The largest wind farm in the world is being constructed on the Oregon-Washington border near Walla Walla, Washington.

    by Mike Stark, Jan 29, 2001

  • Salmon plan grows a few teeth

    The Clinton administration's final Northwest salmon plan is tougher than earlier versions, but still stops short of dismantling four federal dams on the Snake River.

    by Mike Stark, Jan 15, 2001

  • EPA reins in ranchers

    In Oregon, the EPA fines 10 ranchers for letting their cows' manure pollute streams and rivers.

    by Mike Stark, Dec 18, 2000

  • Is a dredging project drowning?

    After 10 years of studies, an Army Corps of Engineers plan to deepen 100 miles of the Columbia River shipping channel is in trouble.

    by Mike Stark, Nov 06, 2000

  • A watershed worth its weight

    The Nature Conservancy wants to buy Ellsworth Creek, a Washington watershed near the mouth of the Columbia River that is valued as a "typical Northwest forest ecosystem."

    by Mike Stark, Nov 06, 2000

  • Killing salmon to save the species

    Northwestern hatcheries now kill excess hatchery salmon to prevent captive-bred fish from weakening wild species, but critics, including some Indian tribes, say this is wasteful and unnecessary.

    by Mike Stark, Oct 09, 2000

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