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AP/National Park ServiceThe Idaho State Department of Agriculture announced Monday it had detected invasive quagga mussel larvae in the Snake River in Twin Falls. Centennial Waterfront Park in Twin Falls is closed. -
Elaine Thompson/APA coalition of community and conservation groups wants to stop a state logging claim near the banks of the Elwha river. They say the so-called “Power Plant” sale would compromise the high-profile effort to restore endangered salmon habitat on the river, just a decade after two dams were removed.
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Washington’s Western gray squirrels are in trouble. So much so that state officials are considering uplisting the squirrels from threatened to endangered. -
While mass timber construction has become more prevelant in parts of Europe and British Columbia, it has been slower to take root in the U.S.
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A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates several laws.
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Federal officials want to move toward ‘climate-ready fisheries.’ Researchers are studying how things like rising temperatures and declining oxygen in ocean water will affect commercial fisheries in the future.
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The Department of Interior has said greenhouse gas emissions can't be considered when evaluating a project's effects on endangered species unless its emissions impact could be distinguished from historic global emissions. A study Thursday in Science’s Policy Forum says scientist have done that for the first time.
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An Orca whale known as Lolita — the last southern resident killer whale surviving in captivity — died recently. She was captured in 1970 in Penn Cove off Whidbey Island.
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Dozens of tribal citizens and employees have benefitted in recent years from tribal climate camps that serve as a refuge for Native Americans on the front lines of climate change. Tribes suffer some of the most severe impacts of climate change in the U.S. but often have the fewest resources to respond.
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Authorities say a second person has died in wildfires in eastern Washington state that sparked Friday burning hundreds of structures and closing a section of a major interstate. Gov. Jay Inslee declared a statewide emergency on Sunday because of those fires and others.
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A wind-driven wildfire in eastern Washington state has destroyed at least 185 structures, closed a major highway and left one person dead, authorities said Saturday.
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The Biden administration has announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels known as culverts that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through.
