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| Using Technology to Find Hidden Graves | One morning in July 2005, Amy Mundorff rode into the Bosnian countryside, tagging along with a team from the International Commission on Missing Persons. The roads wound past forests, farmland and villages. The group stopped near a field in a hilly area on the outskirts of a village to meet an… |
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| Forest Service wants more controlled burns in state | The U.S. Forest Service wants more controlled burns in Washington forests to help make them more resistant to summer wildfires. But rules administered by the state Department of Natural Resources are a roadblock to this fire prevention approach in Washington, the The Seattle Times… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø’s Michael Medler to Discuss Wildfire Hazards in the West Oct. 15 | |||
| Wildfire retardant flights under review; some ‘just painting stuff red’ | Hundreds of thousands of gallons of chemical fire retardant were dumped from planes all over wildlands in Washington last fire season, more than almost anywhere in the West. And this summer’s even bigger fire season could see just as much of the crimson chemical slurry dumped on the landscape,… |
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| Local wins Bellingham Bay’s Rough Water Race | Three months after undergoing hip replacement surgery, 52-year-old Mike Medler was fit enough to win the short course title in the fourth annual Bellingham Bay Rough Water Race. |
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| Northwest communities, including Sudden Valley, prepare for risk of wildfires | Wildfires have been big news this summer, from the massive Rim Fire by Yosemite National Park to the tragic Yarnell Hill Fire north of Phoenix that killed 19 firefighters. Western Washington has been spared major fires, but don't count on that lasting forever. While big fires are… |
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| GPS measures Nelson's unofficial record paddle at 151.88 miles | Bellingham padler Brandon Nelson unofficially paddled 151.88 miles around Lake Padden according to the GPS tracking systems he had on his boat on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 20-21, according to Western Washington University Environmental Studies Department chairman Michael Medler. |
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| Nelson unofficially breaks Guinness world paddling record | At 7:38 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 21, an air horn sounded at Lake Padden in Bellingham, signaling that local paddler Brandon Nelson achieved his goal of breaking the Guinness world record for most distance traveled on flat water in a canoe or kayak in a 24-hour period. |
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| The Great Burning: How Wildfires Are Threatening the West | It was the sound of her neighbors' propane tanks exploding that convinced Nancy Myers she had run out of time. Twenty minutes earlier, the 57-year-old potter had been standing with some friends on a rock-strewn hillside above the village of Yarnell, Arizona, on a hot Sunday afternoon,… |
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| Congress burns firefighters — again | In the weeks and months immediately following 9/11, one of the most touching responses in my neighborhood, not far Ground Zero, was the overwhelming support of police and fire departments from around the country. Across the street from my apartment, at the 6th Precinct headquarters from which… |