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Plum Creek Timber, Interior to sign pact on habitat protection

Officials from Plum Creek Timber and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt are expected to sign an agreement Wednesday designed to protect fish habitat in exchange for regulatory certainty on 1.6 million acres of private lands.
Posted 11/30/00 by Steve Washam

Tribe to sue U.S. over dwindling salmon runs

The Tulalip Tribes' concern over waning numbers of wild salmon has led them to file a letter of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service, a federal agency that oversees enforcement of the federal Endangered Species Act .
Posted 11/27/00 by Steve Washam

AGENCIES TRY TO HELP SALMON, CUT RED TAPE

Federal agencies in the Northwest have streamlined the process for issuing wetland permits, clearing the way for faster approval of projects designed to help imperiled salmon.
Posted 11/22/00 by Steve Washam

GOVERNMENT TO AMEND NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN

Plants and animals, some barely visible to the human eye, will continue to silence chain saws on national forests in the Northwest - at least for the next year.
Posted 11/22/00 by Steve Washam

World Commissioner report slams dams

Tens of millions of people displaced. Livelihoods wrecked. Fragile ecosystems destroyed. Animal species snuffed out.
Posted 11/21/00 by Steve Washam

Belcher's comments leave crowd gasping: Outgoing lands commissioner says what she really thinks

SEATTLE -- Outgoing Lands Commissioner Jennifer Belcher is going out with a bang.
Posted 11/15/00 by Steve Washam

Eyman unveils newest initiative

Measure would give all control of taxes to voters
Posted 11/15/00 by Steve Washam

Ecology Department hit with water lawsuit

Pasco officials and Columbia-Snake river irrigators delivered a "trick" to the Ecology Department on Halloween, announcing a lawsuit to force the state agency to process water rights more quickly and defend state water code.
Posted 11/05/00 by Steve Washam

Benton County

Benton commissioners want review of Hanford fire

Posted 10/21/00 by Steve Washam

Clark County

DONATION OF WATER RIGHTS TO HELP PORT

A donation of water rights by Boise Cascade Corp. could mean more jobs in the Port of Vancouver.
Posted 11/28/00 by Steve Washam

TRAFFIC PROBLEMS UP TO VOTERS TO FIX, GROWTH BOARD SAYS

Clark County can have as much traffic congestion as it wants, the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board has ruled.
Posted 11/22/00 by Steve Washam

COUNTY OFFICIALS WANT COURTS TO WEIGH DEVELOPMENT APPEALS

Courts, not county commissioners, should referee controversial real estate developments, two of the Clark County commissioners said Tuesday.
Posted 11/22/00 by Steve Washam

Land trusts challenged to broaden appeal

Posted 10/23/00 by Steve Washam

REJECTED PLAN GETS SENT TO FEDS

Posted 10/21/00 by Steve Washam

Douglas County

Residents bare teeth in fight over fluoride

Posted 10/23/00 by Steve Washam

King County

Seattle wants it both ways with dams

The Seattle City Council wants to breach the lower Snake River dams, but the city's utility is trying to double its take of cheap hydropower from federal dams on the Columbia-Snake river system.
Posted 12/01/00 by Steve Washam

King County buys Cedar River salmon habitat

MAPLE VALLEY -- King County has purchased 45 acres of prime salmon habitat along the Cedar River near Maple Valley for $937,000.
Posted 11/21/00 by Steve Washam

In the midst of plenty, county government faces hard times

Washington state's richest county, with a budget of $2.45 billion, is short on cash according to county executive.
Posted 11/15/00 by Steve Washam

Church fights rural growth plan

King County is being lobbied by the Archdiocese of Seattle as it puts finishing touches on a comprehensive growth plan.
Posted 11/14/00 by Steve Washam

Council vote will affect water supply -- for fish and people

Posted 10/24/00 by Steve Washam

Kitsap County

Creator of estuary for salmon hopes to expand on his dream

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND -- For a third year, salmon are "returning" to Shel-Chelb, the man-made estuary at the south end of Bainbridge Island once farmed for strawberries.
Posted 11/22/00 by Steve Washam

'Smart growth' offers ideas on how to contain sprawl

'Smart growth' promotion, public meeting 11/28/00 in Bremerton, Wa.
Posted 11/21/00 by Steve Washam

Hundreds rally for property rights

Property owners are urged to fight back against salmon rules seen as a power grab.
Posted 10/22/00 by Steve Washam

Kittitas County

Kittitas County to join suit against federal government

After unanimously agreeing to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service, Kittitas County government officials on Tuesday said they were not attempting to obstruct the federal government’s salmon recovery efforts through the Endangered Species Act.
Posted 11/09/00 by Steve Washam

Kittitas County Likely to Join Fisheries Suit

Kittitas County commissioners are expected today to agree to be a plaintiff in a lawsuit that challenges National Marine Fisheries Service rules designed to protect fish listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Posted 11/09/00 by Steve Washam

County to sue NMFS

Kittitas County is taking center stage in the regional debate over how to protect salmon and steelhead.
Posted 11/09/00 by Steve Washam

Okanogan County

State steps back from water rights fight in Washington town

TWISP, Wash. -- The state Department of Ecology doesn't plan to get into a water rights bidding war with Twisp, anxious officials were told.
Posted 11/17/00 by Steve Washam

Washington plan to buy water rights worries town

Twisp's mayor fears the state's move to protect fish could dry up water sources
Posted 11/15/00 by Steve Washam

Pierce County

Members of new panel will seek ways to preserve farmland

The Pierce County Council has approved formation of a county Farm Advisory Commission to give farmers a bigger voice in county land-use and environmental decisions.
Posted 11/30/00 by Steve Washam

911 agency puts out call for help

BUDGET SHORTFALL: Fixing flawed system costs more than city, county want to pay
Posted 11/14/00 by Steve Washam

Preservation groups have the ear of Pierce County

Posted 11/10/00 by Steve Washam

City Council refuses to authorize ballot measure to reorganize government

Posted 10/21/00 by Steve Washam

Skagit County

Low water levels destroy Skagit salmon nests

Salmon spawning nests in the Skagit River were destroyed last week when Puget Sound Energy refilled a reservoir, dropping water levels in the river dramatically.
Posted 11/30/00 by Steve Washam

Saving Deer Creek

It took work and lots of money to restore a steelhead run
Posted 11/27/00 by Steve Washam

Wild steelhead closure planned

Fishing for wild steelhead, a signature outdoor attraction in Skagit County, will be closed this spring because of poor ocean conditions
Posted 11/22/00 by Steve Washam

Skamania County

Bea case goes to high court

The case of the controversial gorge home goes before the Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday.
Posted 11/30/00 by Steve Washam

GORGE GROUP THREATENS TO SUE COUNTY

A Columbia River Gorge watchdog group says it might sue Skamania County over what it calls "a pattern of failure to implement and enforce" requirements of the Gorge National Scenic Area management plan.
Posted 11/22/00 by Steve Washam

Snohomish County

Surface water fee plan hits skids

Environmentalists say county's proposed water management fee hike is pointless without tougher regulations
Posted 11/22/00 by Steve Washam

Dogged Freedom County backers keep up fight to secede

Posted 10/30/00 by Steve Washam

All sworn in, raring to go

Breakaway county presents its sheriff, auditor, coroner
Posted 10/30/00 by Steve Washam

3 officers 'sworn in' at ceremony in bogus county

A sheriff, coroner and auditor take the oath in would-be Freedom County in Washington state
Posted 10/25/00 by Steve Washam

Secessionists take law into their hands

Posted 10/24/00 by Steve Washam

Spokane County

State leaders tell EPA to clean mine waste

SPOKANE -- Many of Washington's top political leaders urged the federal government Tuesday to take the lead in cleanup of mining wastes in northern Idaho that are traveling down the Spokane River into this state.
Posted 11/15/00 by Steve Washam

EPA hears support for expansion of Superfund

Washington wants federal help in cleaning up Idaho pollution in the Spokane River
Posted 11/15/00 by Steve Washam

Counties eat city's bridge debt

Lincoln Street waiver means counties go without needed bridge projects
Posted 11/15/00 by Steve Washam

State slaps 3 water users with $200,000 in fines

Spokane _ State regulators escalated their ongoing battle with three Eastern Washington irrigators Monday by announcing nearly $200,000 in new fines.
Posted 11/15/00 by Steve Washam

Walla Walla County

State buys water to replenish Walla Walla River

More water should be flowing through the hot and low Walla Walla River next year after a landmark water sale announced by the state Tuesday.
Posted 11/30/00 by Steve Washam

Yakima County

EDITORIAL: Forest Service Plan Is Ill-Timed, Ill-Conceived

Bill Clinton seems hell bent on being "the environmental president" -- even if it takes an ill-timed and ill-conceived U.S. Forest Service plan to do it.
Posted 11/21/00 by Steve Washam

State Agency Takes Note of Yakima County, Greenway

Yakima County and the Yakima Greenway Foundation received awards Thursday in Seattle for their efforts to advance the goals of growth management in Washington.
Posted 11/14/00 by Steve Washam

Judge Slates Court Schedule in Water-Rights Issue for 2001

A year of secret talks aimed at settling major issues in the state's largest water-rights case will end next month, the Yakima judge in the case said Thursday.
Posted 11/14/00 by Steve Washam

Fish Group Fails to Make It Upstream

Posted 11/09/00 by Steve Washam

Workshops to Explain Rules to Protect Steelhead

Local governments and citizens in the Yakima Valley should find out much more today about what is expected of them to protect threatened steelhead trout.
Posted 10/30/00 by Steve Washam

Water Projects Could Get Feds to Back Off

Posted 10/21/00 by Steve Washam

Ecology Asks State Review of Well Rule

Posted 10/21/00 by Steve Washam

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