News

Jun 18, 2009: Murrelets must be protected

Rebuffing the anti-science stance of the Bush administration, the US Fish and Wildlife Service just released a report finding that continued protection of marbled murrelets in Washington, Oregon, and California is required.

May 28, 2009: First documented fisher kits in the Olympics

Biologists today confirmed the first sightings of newborn fishers in Washington State since restoration of the state-endangered species began two years ago.

May 20, 2009: June evenings with wilderness visionary, Doug Scott

In word and image, wilderness visionary Doug Scott explores what wilderness means to individual Americans, reading from his new book, Our Wilderness: America's Common Ground.

May 08, 2009: "Climate change" ruling affects wildlife

Today Interior Secretary Salazar declined to reverse the second of the two Bush-era rule changes to the Endangered Species Act. The "polar bear" rule spells trouble not only for polar bears but for wildlife in Washington from mountain caribou to pikas to lynx to salmon.

May 14, 2009: Bear Awareness Week

May 10-16, 2009, is National Bear Awareness Week. Washington's grizzly bears persist in two places, in the Selkirks in the northeastern corner of Washington and in North Cascades National Park and surrounding national forests.