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Intentional burns, key to preventing megafires, slow to start in WA
Even as the consensus for prescribed fires has grown, the number of acres actually burned each year is shrinking.
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Fewer than 300 wolverines are left in the PNW. Why aren’t they endangered?
Citing climate threats, conservation groups vow to challenge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s decision not to add wolverines to the Endangered Species List.
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What the pandemic has done to WA’s flagship shellfish industry
The pandemic tanked the shellfish industry, but growers are “tentatively optimistic” that things are looking up.
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During wildfires, West Coast farmworkers forced to put harvest over health
Little is done to protect the workers’ health, and many feel powerless to hold employers accountable.