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Four 草榴社区 grads earn certificates from River Management Society | |||
Epic Floods in Pacific Northwest Revive a Long-Running Dispute Over How to Manage a River | In November, when a string of catastrophic storms hit the Pacific Northwest, the Nooksack River flooded, submerging farming communities in both the US and Canada. Cows were swept away, and farmers raced to save them on boats and jet skis. By the time the waters subsided, thousands of farmers and鈥 |
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State pauses logging of this 130-year-old forest near Nooksack River in Whatcom County | Planned logging of a more than century-old forest near the Nooksack River鈥檚 Middle Fork has been paused, according to a Friday, Jan. 28, email the state Department of Natural Resources sent to community members who had contacted the agency regarding the sale. The nearly 89-acre 鈥淯pper鈥 |
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The Nooksack River is in 鈥済rave danger,鈥 warns Whatcom scientist with numbers to back it up | The Nooksack River is in 鈥済rave danger鈥 of experiencing irreversible changes and ecosystem collapse if Whatcom County doesn鈥檛 rapidly reform the way it manages nearby human activity. That was the warning that Western Washington University environmental sciences associate professor John鈥 |
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Inside Environmental Science's Spring Field Camp | |||
Huxley faculty participating in聽pilot NSF grant for new RiVER Field Studies Network | |||
Soon We May All Be Suffering from Climate Whiplash | The classic study for ecosystem impacts from increasing climate variability is a 2002 published about the checkerspot butterfly, a subspecies that was wiped out in the San Francisco Bay area, partially because of habitat loss鈥斺 |
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Climate Whiplash: Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are on the Rise | 鈥淭hese butterfly populations were driven to extinction because of variability鈥 in precipitation, said John McLaughlin, an ecologist at Western Washington University who worked on the study. 鈥淲e should be paying a lot more attention to these kinds of things.鈥 |
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VCU leads effort to launch national consortium of universities offering hands-on river education | In addition to Vonesh, the co-principal investigators and senior partners include 鈥 |
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Hunting Butterflies in No-Man's Land | It’s best to bring an ice axe when counting butterflies in . Located on the Canadian border in the US state of Washington, the park鈥 |