
Environment
A butterfly’s journey from Bear Creek Mountain to the Yakima Valley
For 12 years, a researcher has traced the annual migration of the coronis fritillary up and down Central Washington’s varied environments.
Questen Inghram is a Washington State University Murrow News Fellow at the Yakima Herald-Republic.
For 12 years, a researcher has traced the annual migration of the coronis fritillary up and down Central Washington’s varied environments.
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