Category: Biodiversity
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Species Profile: Periodical Cicadas
Every summer, in forests and woodlands across the North American continent, cicada nymphs dig their way up from the underground…
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The Extraordinary Olympic Peninsula
There is no place on Earth quite like Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Winds coming in off the Pacific dump vast amounts…
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Reports From the Sagebrush Steppe
This week, I traveled to Central Washington while doing research for a story I’m working on that has to do…
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Are PNW Sea Stars Recovering From Wasting Disease?
Beginning at least as early as 2013, sea stars up and down the West Coast began succumbing to a mysterious…
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Is a Biomass Boom Coming to the PNW?
While working on my latest story for Columbia Insight, I talked to folks who are or have been directly impacted…
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Bird Diversity in Samish Flats
The Samish Flats in Skagit County are one of Northwest Washington’s premiere destinations for seeing birds in winter and early…
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The Wonder of Nearby Nature
We often think of wild nature and magnificent animal life as things that can only be seen by travelling far…
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How Grassroots Organizing Drove a Climate and Biodiversity Victory Over Palm Oil
Back in the ’00s, a huge and relatively new threat to biodiversity and the global climate began catching the attention…
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Species Profile: Lodgepole Pine
This post is part of an ongoing series where I’ll periodically highlight a particular plant, animal, or other living thing,…