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  • Bigger fires and evolving threats force changes in the Northwest Forest Plan

    Bigger fires and evolving threats force changes in the Northwest Forest Plan

    Dynamic forests require flexible management

  • How the amount of fish you eat impacts water quality

    How the amount of fish you eat impacts water quality

    Idaho is updating its standards for water pollutants based on how much fish residents eat.

  • Washington wipes out a wolf pack

    Washington wipes out a wolf pack

    Washington state needlessly destroyed an entire wolf pack that had preyed on one rancher’s calves.

  • The easy way to purify our geography

    The easy way to purify our geography

    We can't change the names of places that were named for scoundrels, but we can change their namesakes.

  • Treehuggers and treecutters unite

    Environmentalists have been working with Washington foresters to keep small tree farms in business, but the treaty between the two remains a fragile one.

  • Turning the tide

    Washington tribes will receive millions to give up shellfish-harvesting treaty rights that they’ve never been able to enjoy.

  • Bunny project breeds success

    Washington state wildlife officials just released the first batch of endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits back to the wild.

  • Heard around the West

    Pretending to be an illegal immigrant; Olympia’s gangsta raccoons; advice on selling Bibles door-to-door; peculiar – and pricey – ads in Colorado; Snakes on the Ground are scaring folks in Arizona.

  • Loss and renewal in the Northwest

    Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and Renewal.

  • 'There was just some hard hittin' going on'

    Matt Jenkins visits the annual Combine Demolition Derby in the tiny farming town of Lind, Wash.

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