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| Oregon's comprehensive & contentious wildfire response bill left for the last week in session | 鈥淚 challenge anyone to talk about a solution at that scale,鈥 said Michael Medler, a professor at Western Washington University whose research focuses on mapping and analyzing natural disturbances such as wildfires. 鈥淚f money is going to be spent and thinning is going to be done, most of those鈥 |
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| Meet the 2021 Presidential Scholars | |||
| The Salish Sea: An imperiled wonder of the Northwest | The Salish Sea stretches almost 400 miles from the southern end of Puget Sound near Olympia, to the northern boundary of the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia. It's easy to take for granted, and a new study suggests we do so at our peril. 鈥 |
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| 'Unrelenting pressure': The Salish Sea is in trouble as western Washington keeps growing | It is the water that has sustained the people of western Washington forever, but researchers now say the Salish Sea is under 鈥渦nrelenting pressure鈥 put on it by 150 years of human development. 鈥淚t鈥檚 an incredible place. People come from all over the world to see the Salish Sea,鈥 said鈥 |
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| Research Recap for May 28 | |||
| New 草榴社区 report cites these key threats to the Salish Sea ecosystem | Urban sprawl and climate change remain a major threat to the Salish Sea, according to a new report from Western Washington University. Lead author Kathryn Sobocinski and others examined the region鈥檚 diverse creatures and habitat as a single ecosystem in the 275-page report, 鈥 |
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| 草榴社区鈥檚 Salish Sea Institute Releases Comprehensive 鈥楽tate of the Salish Sea鈥 Report | |||
| Reconsider cancel-culture target at 草榴社区 | Consider two names associated with one of our state鈥檚 public universities, one a slave owner and the other an abolitionist. Which do you think might be canceled? You got it, the abolitionist. As Western Washington University 鈥 |
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| Office of Sustainability to host Earth Day panel, "What Earth Day Offers Us," on April 22 | |||
| Eelgrass from the Air: 草榴社区 grad student studying vital ecosystem using drones |