If you want to run a successful oyster farm, you need to develop a taste for eating raw oysters.
Items by Lissa James
On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the once-lucrative floral greens industry is floundering as its immigrant workers face deportation.
Lissa James learns about solitude in places as diverse as an apartment in downtown Paris and a ranch in rural Wyoming.
Environmentalists have been working with Washington
foresters to keep small tree farms in business, but the treaty
between the two remains a fragile one.
Lissa James figures that, with so many other
get-rich-quick schemers exploiting the West’s need for water,
she should have no problem selling her new book, How to Turn
Catastrophe into Cash.
The writer tells how Christmas has fueled a "bough
industry" in the forest
The Forests and Fish plan was supposed to help both salmon
and the timber industry in Washington State, but clauses in the
agreement may tilt it against wildlife
California farmworkers fight for stricter regulations on
hand weeding, only to find themselves at odds with organic
farmers.
Some say that Washington’s Forests and Fish rules
could be so hard on small timber farms that the owners are likely
to sell out to development, to the detriment of salmon and other
wildlife
A Northwestern family finds itself in the midst of heated
controversy over ecology and economics when it has to decide how to
manage its timber farm
Scientists may have found a radioactive "hot spot" at the
former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant near Denver, soon to be
home to a wildlife refuge
An ambitious highway construction project has been put on
hold in Port Angeles, Wash., following the discovery of the
state’s largest prehistoric village
Inspired by Oregon’s Measure 37, a private-property
rights group in King County, Wash., is fighting to repeal recently
adopted land-use ordinances
Cross-country skiers and environmentalists clash with a
heli-skiing company over use of the Tri-Canyon area in Utah’s
Wasatch Mountains
The writer listens to heated arguments about logging the
extended family’s oldest and most valuable trees
In response to Oregon’s recently passed Measure 37,
Bend, Ore., adopts a rule that allows people to sue their neighbors
if nearby development reduces property values
Environmentalists and some of his own biologists say James
Lecky sold out the endangered fish he was charged with protecting,
but NOAA Fisheries has just given him a promotion
A short guide to the highlights of election results from
contests around the West.
California creates the Sierra Nevada Conservancy in order
to funnel state money toward buying and protecting land in the
region
Sandia National Laboratories wants to monitor the nuclear
waste in a Cold War-era landfill just outside Albuquerque, rather
than excavate it or try to move it elsewhere
HCN’s upcoming potluck is in Portland; new interns
Deanna Belch and Lissa James; and corrections
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