Environmentalists Worry Mega-Dairies Will Affect Air Quality
A group of environmentalists and small farmers is promoting legislation — spurred on by the development of Lost Valley Farms — that would require larg...
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Bees Or Trees: Fruit Growers' Fungicide Dilemma
For fruit growers in the Pacific Northwest, spring is the time for the annual struggle between keeping their trees alive, and keeping bees alive to po...
Controversial Logging Project Debated In NE Oregon
A controversial logging project is moving forward near a popular entrance to the Eagle Cap Wilderness. It’s igniting a debate over what constitutes fo...
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More and more people are using publicly owned lands for recreation. Public agencies are struggling to keep up with the demand for rangers, trail maint...
Hunters And Anglers Cross Political Lines To Fight For Public Lands
Hunters, fishermen and environmental activists. It’s not often these group are mentioned in the same breath. But recently they’re finding themselves s...
Pacific chorus frog calls
The Pacific chorus frogs’ call is ubiquitous in the Northwest. But the amphibians are having more and more trouble hearing themselves. Traffic is drow...
Is Our Wastewater Infrastructure Ready For Climate Change?
Seattle residents were horrified when King County dumped millions of gallons of raw sewage into Puget Sound. Officials blamed it on a malfunction at a...
Proposed EPA Cuts Could Pose Big Problems For Tribes
Proposed budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency would scale back many programs and grants that American Indian tribes depend on to ensure ...
A Deadly Disease For Bats Reaches The West Coast
A decade ago bats in the Northeast started dying by the millions. The culprit was a disease that for years, stayed largely confined to the eastern U.S...