Editor's Take: Top Story For May 09, 2008
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Salmon Fishing a Relic of the Past?
Today, the New York Times visits Southern Oregon’s coast to find out how salmon fisherman are going to make it through the summer. Some are giving up on their craft altogether and turning to other means of making a living. In Cascadia’s more remote fishing and logging towns, these are really hard times.
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Millions for Timber Payments Added to Iraq Bill
Olympia Food Bank Sees Jump in Demand
BC has Worst Child Poverty in Canada
Sam Sullivan: We Must Care for Our Most Vulnerable
Backing off Biofuels
Medford's H2O is No. 1
Murrelet Populations Trend Down
Montana Biologists Use Trout to Study Dam Removal
Wild Sky Wilderness Backers Celebrate
Editor's Take: Top Story For May 08, 2008
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This Just In: Bush Signs Wild Sky
The Everett Herald breaks the news: Wild Sky Wilderness is a go! President Bush signed the bill into law this morning. It's the first new tract of wilderness -- 106,000 acres of it -- for Washington state in 24 years. Meanwhile, another wilderness plan is moving forward in Southern Oregon. Read about it in the Medford Mail-Tribune.
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Soda Mountain Wilderness Bill Clears Committee
Cascadia's Natural Environment Shaped Its Culture
Free Energy Makeover in Missoula
Victoria-area Plan Delivers Real Affordable Housing
Duwamish: We Are Not Extinct!
BC Natives Held Back from Growth
German Solar Expert Sees Green Gaps in Oregon
Biomass Power: Grays Harbor Yay, Tacoma Nay
Idaho Company Makes Millions from Toxic Waste
Editor's Take: Top Story For May 07, 2008
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Gas Prices and Transportation Choices
The Vancouver Columbian reports that traffic trends on local freeway bridges, consistently ticking upward for the past decade (8.5 percent over 10 years), dropped a startling 3.3 percent in March. At the same time, C-Tran ridership climbed 7.4 percent. Combining trips, carpooling, taking the train. The moral: Our driving habits are changing as gas prices rise.
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