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Safe in Sound Puget Sound orcas gain more protection; Florida manatees downlisted to threatened		12 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Safe in Sound Puget Sound orcas gain more protection; Florida manatees downlisted to threatened Ninety endangered orcas in the Northwest may soon swim easier, as the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed Friday to designate nearly the entire Puget Sound -- about 2,500 square miles of water -- critical orca habitat. The usual suspects took the usual sides: developers o ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Northwest, oceans (all these topics)

Losing Our Marbleds Bush Team Aims to Revoke Protections from Threatened Seabird		02 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Losing Our Marbleds Bush Team Aims to Revoke Protections from Threatened Seabird The Bush administration took a big step yesterday toward removing the marbled murrelet, a Northwest seabird, from the list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, a move enviros say will lead to further logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. The ruling from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service states that the declin ...
Topics: logging, Northwest, wildlife (all these topics)

I Hope You Like Dammin', Too Bush Administration Won't Remove Northwest Dams to Save Salmon		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
I Hope You Like Dammin', Too Bush Administration Won't Remove Northwest Dams to Save Salmon The Bush administration announced yesterday that it will not remove dams from the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest as part of its efforts to save endangered salmon runs. According to Bob Lohn of the National Marine Fisheries Service, "Our work shows that you can achieve recovery w ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest (all these topics)

Green Card New Scorecard Measures Sustainability Progress in Northwest		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Read more about: Northwest Green Card New Scorecard Measures Sustainability Progress in Northwest Nightly newscasts report on the stock market and the GDP. But do these common measures really tell us how society is faring? Northwest Environment Watch, a Seattle-based think tank, doesn't think so. Today it released its first annual Cascadia Scorecard, intended as a better assessment of the overall well-being of the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia). On four of si ...
Topics: Northwest (all these topics)

Swinging Both Ways Bush Announces Environmental Money for Swing States		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Swinging Both Ways Bush Announces Environmental Money for Swing States A recent flurry of announcements from the Bush administration about proposed funding increases for environmental projects -- including salmon restoration and brush clearing in the Northwest, Everglades protection in Florida, and cleanup of the Great Lakes -- has some enviros suspiciou ...
Topics: elections, Florida, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

A Dam Sham Bush Officials Stand Atop Dam to Trumpet Salmon Funding		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
A Dam Sham Bush Officials Stand Atop Dam to Trumpet Salmon Funding Bush administration officials announced a $10 million increase in funding for restoration of endangered Northwest salmon on Monday, drawing election-year attention to recent increases in salmon numbers. Enviros expressed measured support for the rise in funding, but pointed out that higher salmon numbers we ...
Topics: Columbia River, fishing, marine life, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Streaming Media Judge Bans Pesticide Use Near Northwest Salmon Runs		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Streaming Media Judge Bans Pesticide Use Near Northwest Salmon Runs A federal judge Thursday banned the use of a wide range of pesticides in and around thousands of miles of waterways in the Northwest frequented by endangered salmon, and required stores selling seven of the most dangerous banned pesticides to display signs reading &q ...
Topics: environmental justice, fishing, green living, marine life, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Case of Influence-a Enviros Say Pesticide Makers Are Illegally Influencing EPA		08 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
A Case of Influence-a Enviros Say Pesticide Makers Are Illegally Influencing EPA Northwest salmon and other endangered species could suffer because pesticide manufacturers are acting illegally to weaken rules on the use of dangerous chemicals, enviros are charging. A coalition of environmental groups, including the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, fishing, National Wildlife Federation, Northwest, politics, Sierra Club, toxics, US EPA, wildlife (all these topics)

Rove V. Waders White House Political Maneuvering Could Hurt Northwest Salmon		10 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Rove V. Waders White House Political Maneuvering Could Hurt Northwest Salmon President Bush lost in Oregon and Washington in the 2000 election, but his team is working to ensure that he fares better in the Pacific Northwest in 2004 -- and that may mean trouble for salmon. Bush's top strategy honcho, Karl Rove, has been making quiet trips to t ...
Topics: Department of Interior, fishing, food and agriculture, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest President Bush made a swing through Oregon and Washington state late last week to talk up his environmental agenda in an attempt to attract eco-concerned suburban voters, but he was met with thousands of protesters who didn't buy his promises to deliver "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Fo ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, Northwest, politics, Portland, wilderness (all these topics)

Ecotopia on the Hudson Lessons in environmentally friendly living from New York City	Alan Thein Durning	19 Aug 2003	Soapbox
In 1975, Ernest Callenbach published a slim book called Ecotopia, in which the Northwest secedes from the United States and establishes itself as an ecological paradise. The text became a counterculture classic, and the term "Ecotopia" entered the lexicon, embodying the American tendency to think of the continent's forested far coast as a land of recycling bins and spo ...
Topics: New York, New York City, Northwest, placemaking, Portland, Seattle (all these topics)

Green Apple Northwest Could Learn a Green Lesson from New York City		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: New York, Northwest (all these topics)

Gutter Talk		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gutter Talk The Bush administration has been discreetly gutting environmental protections by encouraging industry groups to sue over rules and then settling those lawsuits on terms favorable to industry, enviros argue. Using such tactics, the administration has allowed more logging in Northwest forests, curtailed protections for roadless lands and ...
Topics: Earthjustice, fishing, logging, national parks, Northwest, politics, water pollution, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Something Smells Fishy		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Something Smells Fishy The Bush administration is proposing changes to its salmon-protection strategy that critics say would endanger salmon while boosting logging in the Pacific Northwest. As it now stands, federal rules prohibit timber sales and other activities on public lands unless officials can demonstrate that fish would not be harmed. Under revisions pr ...
Topics: fishing, logging, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

F Is for Fish		27 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
F Is for Fish The Bush administration received an "F" from the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition for failing to make progress on protecting endangered salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The coalition, which is comprised of regional environmental and conservation organizations, said the administration has not implemented three-quarters of the measures mandated under a salmon-recovery plan adopted in 2000. Sin ...
Topics: fishing, marine life, Northwest, politics (all these topics)

Spotted Record		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Spotted Record Federal protections for the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet have been blamed by many in the anti-enviro camp for the collapse of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest during the 1990s. Now, the Bush administration has announced that it will review those protections, as well as the designation of & ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, logging, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West, wildlife (all these topics)

In Deep Du Du		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
In Deep Du Du The U.S. Navy regularly tests one of its weapons by firing radioactive ammunition into prime fishing waters off the coast of Washington state, a practice that fishers, scientists, and activists say could be harmful to human and environmental health. The weapon, known as the Phalanx or the Close In Weapons System, fires up to 4,500 rounds per minute of ...
Topics: marine life, Northwest, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, toxics, US Navy, Washington (all these topics)

Job None		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Job None Following the collapse of the Northwest timber industry in the 1990s, thousands of workers lost their jobs. The conventional wisdom has been that these workers were absorbed by a boom in the region's high-tech industry -- but a new study of a decade's worth of employment records questions that conclusion. True, the region's economy as a whole grew during the '90s, ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, logging, Northwest, Oregon (all these topics)

Sound Off		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound Off Some 92,000 acres of mud and sand at the bottom of the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound is contaminated with dioxin, toxic metals, and PCBs (just for starters), all the result of industrial pollution. In turn, these nasties make their way into the sound's critters. Crabs are poisoned, while orca whales, salmon, and even some herring stocks are disappearing. The sound's be ...
Topics: climate, marine life, Northwest, oceans, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Quite a Pear		29 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Quite a Pear There have been wars fought over oil and opium, spices and sugarcane -- and now it seems there is a war brewing in Washington state over pears. The battle was touched off when the Seattle-based Washington Environmental Council sent a letter to an irrigation district in the eastern part of the state threatening legal actions if the district didn't stop diverting so much water to or ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, Northwest, water conflicts (all these topics)

Killer! Whale Suits		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Killer! Whale Suits 'Tis the season to sue over whales. Environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest announced this week that they plan to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service over its decision to deny protected status to orca whales in Puget Sound. In June, the NMFS found that the local orca population, which has declined 20 percent since 1996, does indeed face p ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest, NRDC, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Timber Boom II		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Timber Boom II The Bush administration has indicated that it will rewrite the Northwest Forest Plan, the nation's first attempt to manage a broad ecosystem across an entire region of the U.S. In an development welcomed by timber interests, U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth has asked regional heads of the USFS, the Bureau of Land Management, and other agencies to recommend c ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, logging, Northwest, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Going With the Wind		16 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Going With the Wind "The Pacific Northwest is well on its way to becoming the wind capital of the U.S.," says Tom Gray of the American Wind Energy Association. For example, the new Stateline Wind Energy Project on the Washington-Oregon border will begin operations this fall with 396, 242-foot turbines, together capable of powering 60,000 homes. Wind power generates only 0.1 percent of the natio ...
Topics: energy, Northwest, Oregon, Washington, wind power (all these topics)

Backstroke to the Future		26 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Backstroke to the Future Christopher Swain of Eugene, Ore., plans to swim all 1,243 miles of the Columbia River to call attention to what he describes as "a contaminated beauty." The feds are now investigating the river for sources of mercury and other nasties. Swain, who works for Columbia Riverkeeper, will embark on the 160-day swim next summer ...
Topics: Columbia River, education, Northwest, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Timber Wars, Fact and Fiction Lisa Hymas reviews From the Redwood Forest by Joan Dunning and Forest Blood by Jeff Golden	Lisa Hymas	04 Jun 1999	Arts and Minds
The recent high-profile deal to keep chainsaws out of the Headwaters grove of ancient redwood trees near Eureka, Calif., is unlikely to bring about a truce in the raging war over old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest and northern California. Environmentalists continue to dig in their heels and repudiate all compromise (more than 90 percent of U.S ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, Northwest (all these topics)

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