Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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St. James Family Center’s Adult to Youth Mentoring Program wants to create new friendships that benefit young people. Their goal is to link young people, hindergarten through sixth grade, with caring, responsible adults. These adult friends, or mentors, model constructive behavior and community involvement for the youth and together they enjoy and enrich each other’s lives by exploring common interests. The pairs spend at least one hour per week together, and mentors are asked to make a minimum commitment of one year and to complete a bac...
From now through September, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is offering current freshwater or saltwater fishing license holders the opportunity to upgrade to a combination license for under $28. The upgrade will give those anglers all the fishing privileges of a combination license at the cost they would have paid if they had purchased one originally, said Peter Vernie, WDFW licensing manager. Freshwater fishing license holders can purchase an upgrade to a combination license for $27.85 and current saltwater fishing...
The Columbia Basin is possibly looking at a summer with progressively diminishing water supplies, because of similar conditions that developed last year across the basin. Mountain snowpacks were at or near average by mid-April in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, but warm temperatures — in some cases record highs — fueled an early snowpack runoff that peaked on some waterways weeks ahead of historic expectations. The Natural Resource Conservation Service issued reports for the four states in June that indicate similar outlooks for the res...
2,394 birds shot this year Plaintiffs in a federal case in which they seek to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from continuing to shoot and oil double crested cormorant eggs in the lower Columbia River estuary called talk of “devastating impacts” on salmon by the birds’ predation “little more than a biological soundbite.” In their supplemental brief federal defendants said the plaintiffs’ brief was just a rehash of what the court has already heard and resolved. Attorneys for the plaintiffs – the Audubon Society of Portland and others ...
The Washington Education Association (WEA) has endorsed Secretary of State Kim Wyman for re-election. With over 85,000 members, the Washington Education Association is the largest representative of public school employees in Washington. They also endorsed Secretary Wyman in 2012. Secretary Wyman thanked the WEA for their endorsement, saying, “I am grateful to the Washington Education Association for their endorsement. I am dedicated to engaging students and young people in our democracy. Maintaining a strong education system is central to t...
Large livestock and animal facilities are one step closer to having a standard set of practices that protect surface and groundwater quality under an updated permit proposed by the Washington Department of Ecology. Ecology is updating the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) general permit, which expired in 2011. The permit addresses manure management at facilities that confine large numbers of livestock, poultry or other animals in order to protect water quality. Changes in the new permit will address protection of groundwater health,...
After incorporating feedback from business and environmental stakeholders, the Washington Department of Ecology has released an updated version of the state’s first-ever rule to cap carbon pollution. The Clean Air Rule will reduce carbon pollution to help slow climate change. Ecology withdrew its original draft of the Clean Air Rule in order to act quickly on improvements and to stay on track with adopting the rule by late summer. Now the agency wants to hear from the public and is accepting comments on the rule. Some of the changes made to t...
