They’ve been called devil fish. They’re No. 1 on the hit-list for invasive aquatic life in Washington waters. And they’re creeping farther and farther down the Columbia River system.Read More
The Trump administration is suspending efforts to bolster the grizzly bear population in Washington’s North Cascades. That would leave this part of the mountain range with fewer than ten of the imperiled bears.Read More
A Chinook salmon. Listen One of Idaho’s struggling salmon species could eventually become self-sustaining in the wild under the federal government’s new recovery strategies. The two new recovery plans are […]Read More
Chris Hooper, right, of White Salmon watches the fire caused by a derailed oil train in Mosier, Oregon, near Hood River in the Columbia River Gorge on Friday, June […]Read More
Sherpa carrying kit to base camp on Mount Everest. Listen It’s a unique problem: How to dispose of human waste on Mount Everest? The mountain’s climatic conditions and high […]Read More
Coho salmon, left, and Chinook salmon, swim past viewing windows at a fish ladder at the Ballard Locks in Seattle. Photo credit: Elaine Thompson / Associated Press Listen It […]Read More
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Claire Satterwhite holds a pygmy rabbit. Photo credit: USFWS – Pacific Region Listen As wildfires rage across the Pacific Northwest, more than […]Read More
Possibly over 300,000 Atlantic Salmon escaped from a fish farm after a net pen broke near broke near Puget Sound’s Cyprus Island. Photo credit: MICHAEL C. YORK / ASSOCIATED […]Read More
At issue is whether a large organic farm, Azure Standard, is letting its weeds spread onto neighboring property — and whether the government should do something about it. Neighboring farmers say the weeds have crept onto their fields, costing them time and money to control the problem. Read More
A rare and fatal birth defect called anencephaly is striking at an alarming rate — about four times the national average — in three eastern Washington counties.Read More
Revenda Bebawi, a military dentist based in Stuttgart, Germany, helps comfort a nervous child during a free dental clinic in El Paredon, Guatemala. Dentists from around the world traveled […]Read More
Walter Henze didn’t know much about birds until he built this home outside Tonasket, Washington. Now he starts every day with a cup of joe and walk around his property […]Read More
Barn Owls have very long legs, toes and talons to help them to catch prey hidden under long grass. The scientific Latin name for Barn Owl is Tyto alba alba. […]Read More
The Carlton Complex burned through Ken Bevis’ property in 2014. Since then, he hasn’t cut down the dead trees — they make great bird habitat. Ken Bevis has left somewhere […]Read More
Private companies are essential in fighting the mega-wildfires that yearly burn through the backcountry and encroach on towns. One fire company in the Methow Valley is a family affair.Read More
Wildland firefighters are a tight-knit group. After years of fighting fires together in the remote wilderness and on the edges of suburbia, you get to know a lot of people. And for one fire company in Washington’s Methow Valley, the bond is even stronger.Read More
Nestlé is looking to build a commercial water bottling plant in the Northwest. It’s most recent pitch is to the town of Waitsburg, Washington, about 20 miles north of Walla […]Read More
Palm-sized pygmy rabbits like to create burrows under mounds of sagebrush. For more than a decade, Washington’s pygmy rabbits have struggled to come back from the brink of extinction. […]Read More
Sara Schilling, Courtney Flatt and Eddie Goss pose for a picture at the summit of Mount Adams. This was their first attempt climbing up Washington’s second tallest volcano, which stands […]Read More
Asparagus hummus at Black Cypress restaurant in Pullman. The 2016 International Year of the Pulse aims to put more of the crops — chickpeas, lentils, dried peas and beans […]Read More
Derek Churchill takes notes during a meeting before crews begin marking trees. Churchill and his team have developed a system that uses data points to help crews know they’re […]Read More
Sheri Tonn, with Citizens for a Healthy Bay, looks at the old Occidental Chemical Corporation site from a boat on the Hylebos Waterway. For decades the facility produced drycleaning […]Read More
Jennifer Garcia with her daughter, Hannah, 2. Garcia found out the soil in her yard tested high for arsenic. It’s left over from pesticides sprayed before the 1950s on […]Read More
Bill Rietveldt, Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center curator, shows off apple labels. “The great northern railroad advertised Wentachee as ‘The Place to Go Grow Apples,” Rietveldt said. “That’s […]Read More
Andrew Shields, a wildlife biologist for Roaring Springs Ranch in southeastern Oregon, searches for a radio collared sage grouse. Photo credit: Courtney Flatt Listen The plight of greater sage […]Read More
The Yellowstone grizzly bear is an omnivore, it eats meat, fruits, berries, grass and bugs. Photo credit: Yellowstone National Park Listen Would you like to see more grizzly bears […]Read More
