Environment
Long Beach’s Willapa refuge turns timber land back into wilderness
Conservation-minded forest management, though costly, helps restore this former logging site as a wildfire-resilient ecosystem.
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King County’s landfill is scrambling to solve its methane problem
Cedar Hills in Maple Valley is ranked among the top 50 methane-producing landfills in the country. But new science and policy breakthroughs could help.
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Are offshore wind turbines in Washington’s future?
If voters decide in November to keep the cap-and-invest program, the state has plans that could bring the technology to its coastal waters.
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U.S. and Canada update 60-year-old Columbia River Treaty
Politicians are celebrating the tentative agreement, while activists and tribal leaders say it doesn’t do enough to protect endangered salmon runs.
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Wildlife advocates skeptical of WA wolf count
As the state considers removing the species’ endangered status, some argue that the Colville Tribe’s recent population estimate is implausibly high.