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Headline	Author	Published	Section
And the Wind Cries Scary Pacific Northwest ocean dead zone getting larger		27 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
And the Wind Cries Scary Pacific Northwest ocean dead zone getting larger Researchers believe global warming is behind a recurring low-oxygen "dead zone" in the Pacific Northwest ocean. Triggered by north winds, a process called upwelling encourages the growth of phytoplankton blooms; when the water calms, the phytoplankton die for lack of nutrients, sink to the bottom, and rot, using up oxyg ...
Topics: climate, Louisiana, news, oceans, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Forest Trump Judge halts more than 140 Northwest timber sales to protect rare species		10 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Forest Trump Judge halts more than 140 Northwest timber sales to protect rare species U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman has reinstated the "look before logging" rule on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest -- abolished in 2004 by the Bush administration -- and ordered a halt to 144 timber sales in California, Oregon, and Washington that might imperil about 300 rare animal and plant species. Federa ...
Topics: logging, news, Pacific Northwest, wilderness (all these topics)

Spruce Almighty Federal judge says Bush rule change on logging illegal		04 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Spruce Almighty Federal judge says Bush rule change on logging illegal The Bush administration broke the law last year when it changed the rules on logging in the Pacific Northwest, a federal judge ruled this week. The Northwest Forest Plan of 1994 requires the government to survey many proposed timber sales for the presence of rare plants and animals, and manage cuts to protect them. This "look before you log" r ...
Topics: logging, news, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Thrill Spill Cult Water should keep pouring over Northwest dams to aid salmon, court says		28 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Thrill Spill Cult Water should keep pouring over Northwest dams to aid salmon, court says Salmon will continue to find a watery way over several Northwest dams. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week voted to uphold a federal judge's June order for the feds to aid migrating salmon by spilling water over five dams in the Columbia and Snake river systems in the Northwest. A three-judge panel of the a ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, news, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Craig's %$#! List Idaho senator tries to axe center that analyzes endangered salmon		24 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Craig's %$#! List Idaho senator tries to axe center that analyzes endangered salmon Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has inserted a rider into the federal energy bill that would eliminate funding for the Fish Passage Center, which has tracked salmon in the Columbia and Snake River systems in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years. Craig is peeved that the center's fish survival data was used to support a rece ...
Topics: fishing, Idaho, news, Pacific Northwest, politics (all these topics)

And Squad Said, Let There Be Blight Judge orders dam spills in Northwest; critics may call on higher power		13 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
And Squad Said, Let There Be Blight Judge orders dam spills in Northwest; critics may call on higher power Just two weeks after ruling that the Bush administration plan to protect Northwest salmon was inadequate, on Friday U.S. District Judge James Redden issued an order for large-scale spilling of water at a number of dams that are hindering the ability of juvenile salmon to navigate downstream ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, hydrogen, news, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Salmon and Denial-Ah Federal judge calls Bush admin's salmon plan fishy		27 May 2005	Daily Grist
Salmon and Denial-Ah Federal judge calls Bush admin's salmon plan fishy In a strongly worded opinion, U.S. District Judge James Redden yesterday ruled that the Bush administration's salmon-protection plan for the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest is "contrary to law" because it doesn't take into account how dams affect the fish's chances of recovery. This is ...
Topics: Columbia River, dams, energy, fishing, news, Pacific Northwest, Snake River (all these topics)

They're Just Not That Into You Low Northwest salmon run confounds fishers, closes fisheries		12 May 2005	Daily Grist
They're Just Not That Into You Low Northwest salmon run confounds fishers, closes fisheries Conservationists, salmon enthusiasts, and fisheries managers along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest are wondering, Is it something we said? They've been stood up by thousands of chinook salmon that were expected to swim up the river to spawn this season, but n ...
Topics: Columbia River, dams, energy, fishing, Idaho, news, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Washington (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)

Hi, Desert		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, wilderness, wildlife (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)

A Big Pay Off?		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Big Pay Off? Led by climate change skeptic ExxonMobil, a collection of oil, gas, and other energy companies has pledged at least $175 million over 10 years to Stanford University to create a Global Climate and Energy Project. One goal of the project will be to help develop renewable energy technologies. Critics say the gi ...
Topics: climate, Colorado River, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, energy, Pacific Northwest, renewable energy (all these topics)

A Fungus Among Us		02 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
A Fungus Among Us There's no time for snails and 'shrooms -- that was the gist of an announcement Monday by the Bush administration, which is seeking to ease environmental regulations governing logging on federal land in the Pacific Northwest. The timber industry and administration officials complain that the "survey and manage" component of the regulations, which mandates detailed surve ...
Topics: business, logging, Pacific Northwest, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

The Answer, My Friends		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Answer, My Friends The biggest wind-energy meeting ever held in the U.S. opened today in Portland, Ore. Industry-watchers say the large turnout -- more than 1,500 people have registered for the three-day conference -- is a good sign for wind energy in general and for the role of the Pacific Northwest in the wind market in particular. Oregon doesn't have the bes ...
Topics: energy, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Portland, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The Shipping News		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Shipping News Salmon and other imperiled species would not be damaged by a proposed deepening of the Columbia River channel, federal scientists announced yesterday. Those findings -- biological opinions required under the Endangered Species Act -- will enable the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Columbia River, fishing, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, placemaking, Washington, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Data Dump		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Data Dump State officials in the Pacific Northwest are searching for ways to reduce the amount of high-tech waste ending up in landfills. The waste in Oregon has more than doubled since 1998, and it can be nasty stuff -- computer monitors and televisions contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The officials are considering a "bottle bill&q ...
Topics: business, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Dam! An Agency Breaches the Public Trust Why hasn't the National Marine Fisheries Service called for the removal of the lower Snake River dams?	Rob Masonis	13 Dec 2000	Soapbox
Passions run high in the Pacific Northwest over whether to remove four large federal dams on the lower Snake River to recover the river's imperiled wild salmon and steelhead (a.k.a. sea-run rainbow trout). The Snake once produced more salmon and steelhead than any other river in the vast Columbia River basin -- over 2 million f ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, fishing, hydropower, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Northwest, Snake River (all these topics)

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