http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.7/seeking-balance-in-oregons-timber-country/bigger-fires-and-evolving-threats-force-changes-in-the-northwest-forest-plan Dynamic forests require flexible management No publisher Nathan Rice megafires Okanagan climate change Washington spotted owl Cascades drought 2013-04-26T22:13:42Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.6/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. No publisher Sarah Jane Keller methylmercury consumption fish Dioxin Washington Alaska Oregon DDT PCB water contamination Idaho EPA 2013-04-16T20:11:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/washington-wipes-out-a-wolf-pack Washington state needlessly destroyed an entire wolf pack that had preyed on one rancher’s calves. No publisher Laura Ackerman and Paul Lindholdt wolf pack Washington ranchers v wolves 2012-11-27T17:24:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15649 Washington, D.C., seems like another planet when seen from the West, as the political stories in this issue of the paper suggest No publisher Greg Hanscom Politics Washington D.C. environmental issues Congress Western states state legislatures Richard Pombo House Resources Committee Endangered Species Act oil and gas industry cyanide-leach gold mining energy efficiency renewable energy private 2012-04-17T21:35:06Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16499 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. No publisher Annie Dawid Communities in Transition Steven Radosevich Good Wood essays hunters fishermen grape growers anthologies Pacific Northwest Siletz Indians Tieton Washington memoirs family history timber logging clear-cutting forests Coast Range Charlie Wakenshaw teachers Oregon 2011-11-30T16:47:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16462 Matt Jenkins visits the annual Combine Demolition Derby in the tiny farming town of Lind, Wash. No publisher Matt Jenkins Communities Western Culture Crops Combine Demolition Derby Lind Washington John Deere International Harvester tractors farm communities rural life agriculture farming equipment Bill Loomis Matt Miller Josh Knodel Dennis Starring Dana Knight Travis Willson Bill Wills Karle 2011-11-21T23:58:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16388 Whatever the cause, the weather in the West this last year has been wild and wacky No publisher Stephanie Paige Ogburn Weather Climate Change Western states climate change floods drought global warming NOAA precipitation dust storms haboob Phoenix Arizona Washington mudslides Oregon windstorms California moisture Nevada dryness Colorado snowpack ski resorts Montan Science 2011-11-12T23:32:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15620 Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make his city environmentally sustainable No publisher J.M. McCord Science Climate Change Communities In Transition Seattle Washington Greg Nickels mayors Kyoto Protocol global warming climate change greenhouse gases sustainability energy pollution Denis Hayes Orin Smith Seattle City Light hydropower wind power 2005 City Livability Award environmentali 2011-05-16T22:59:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/362/17456 Environmentalists have been working with Washington foresters to keep small tree farms in business, but the treaty between the two remains a fragile one. No publisher Lissa James Steve Stinson tree farms small foresters Washington Forest and Fish Rules logging salmon habitat 2011-02-14T23:16:42Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16561 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. No publisher Betsy Marston Olympia Western odd news Humor raccoons Cox News Service Mexico pretense odd recreation Washington Hnahnu community tourists illegal immigrants trappers Tom Bro Tamara Keeton crossing Miriam Miguel Ramirez border Hidalgo problem wildlife 2010-10-26T22:48:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.2/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. No publisher Ed Quillen Martin Luther King Jr. Western history place names William Rufus DeVane King Washington King County Sir St. George Gore geographic names Schuyler Colfax George Armstrong Custer Al Gore 2010-02-05T08:50:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/17104 Washington tribes will receive millions to give up shellfish-harvesting treaty rights that they’ve never been able to enjoy. No publisher Eve Rickert Socio-Economics Native Americans Puget Sound Washington treaties shellfish treaty rights 2010-02-05T09:27:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/16911 Washington state wildlife officials just released the first batch of endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits back to the wild. No publisher Michelle Blank Threatened and Endangered Species endangered species pygmy rabbit wildlife reintroduction Washington Columbia Basin 2010-02-05T08:40:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16395 In The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch’s debut novel, a 13-year-old boy in the Pacific Northwest begins finding all kinds of strange sea creatures, and wonders if "maybe the earth is trying to tell us something." No publisher Annie Dawid Human Beings and Nature Jim Lynch The Highest Tide first novels children in fiction coming of age stories Pacific Northwest sea life marine creatures Squid Boy biologists Skookumchuck Bay Olympia Washington 2010-02-05T09:34:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16037 As the West’s privately owned timberlands go up for sale, small towns like Glenwood, Wash., are working to buy local forests and manage them for the good of the community No publisher Jane Braxton Little Communities Land Use And Planning Logging Communities Glenwood Washington Jay McLaughlin Shade Tree Inn logging communities small towns socio-economics loggers Cascade Mountains Mount Adams privately owned timberlands forests real estate land sales timber companies Peter Stein Lyme Timber Com 2010-02-05T08:56:30Z News Article