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Flight Plan: Charting a Course for Drones in Washington

This one-hour television special from TVW looks at the growing popularity of civilian drones, and the privacy questions they raise. TVW introduces you to hobbyists who are flying drones for fun, as well as professionals who want to use them for things like selling real estate or growing grapes.…

Scientist on Rainier chases climate change’s butterfly effect

With a pirouette and swoosh of his net, John McLaughlin is after his quarry.

Up here in the rarefied realm of Mount Rainier’s alpine meadows, the mountain, glaciered and magnificent, seems close enough to touch. Velvet green meadows pool with teal lakes. But…

Professor, students use UAVs to track elk herds
Tribes, feds experiment with drones to count elk

Looking out over the town of Hamilton in the upper Skagit River valley from a hillside on state Department of Natural Resources land, a team of federal unmanned aircraft operators and local researchers scouted for elk.

They couldn’t see elk themselves from that high up, but they knew they…

Drones plot upriver elk herd’s size

Looking out over the town of Hamilton in the upper Skagit River valley from a hillside on state Department of Natural Resources land, a team of federal unmanned aircraft operators and local researchers scouted for elk.
They couldn’t see elk themselves from that high up, but they knew they…

New elk survey takes flight

Unmanned aircraft will scout a section of state-managed forest land north of Hamilton next week on the lookout for elk — a known hell-raiser in eastern Skagit Valley.
For several years, a growing herd has caused trouble for farmers, landowners and drivers along Highway 20 and the upper…

Soap Lake's healing waters studied more closely

A longtime resident is one step closer to solving the mystery of Soap Lake.
John Glassco's life mission has been to preserve and research the healing waters of Soap Lake. The Soap Lake Conservancy Board chairman recently passed along the only water samples taken from the lake before…

Rybczyk to discuss rising seas and ecosystem restoration March 13
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