Monthly News Archive:
August 2003
Table of Contents:
- A Red-Tailed Hawk's Road to Recovery
- Judge Issues Injunction to Stop New Navy Sonar
- Greening the Classroom - One King County Student's Mission
- A Path to Change - Volunteer Stories
- President Bush Visits the Northwest with a Focus on Forest Plan
- New York - Environmental Model for the Northwest?
- Washington Trails Association hosts Northwest Exposure Photo Contest
- "ReLeaf" for Wildfires - American Forests Education & Restoration Initiative
A Red-Tailed Hawk's Road to Recovery
Earth Share of Washington member PAWS Wildlife Rehabilitation Center treats over 6,500 animals a year. These injured animals will have a second chance to live wild and free thanks to the PAWS Wildlife Center. Bears, songbirds, flying squirrels, raccoons, eagles, deer, ducks, owls, rabbits - over 200 species will be treated by PAWS wildlife care specialists at our Lynnwood facility. Every month, PAWS naturalist Kevin Mack features a story of one of these injured animals in their newsletter Wild Again.
Here is the story of an injured Red-Tailed Hawk, and his road to recov...Read the full story
August 29, 2003 | 
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Judge Issues Injunction to Stop New Navy Sonar
Federal Judge Elizabeth Laporte announced that she is planning to issue a permanent injuction to limit the use of a new high-power navy sonar, believed to cause injury and even death to marine animals. One stipulation of the injunction requires that Navy sonar experts and environmental advocates work together to negotiate the conditions of the injuction.
LFA sonar (low frequency active) uses blasts of sound of up to 215 decibels to detect submarines over long distances. Studies indicate that these tests have caused death in brown trout, a species very similar to our pacific salm...Read the full story
August 27, 2003 | Comments Off
Greening the Classroom - One King County Student's Mission
One 14-year-old boy from Tolt Middle School is taking it upon himself to start a recycling program on campus, and his initiatives are catching on statewide. Richard Minor, from Carnation, WA is taking part in a pilot program set forth by King County that gets students involved in conservation. The goal is to cut garbage volume (and collection fees), reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and raise community awareness. Read more about this ambitious program to get students, teachers, and the community more involved in conservation and find out some green tips that will get you started!
August 25, 2003 | Comments Off
A Path to Change - Volunteer Stories
- Reflections from a Student Conservation Assocaition volunteer
Seventeen year old Lisa Maas and her crew were located in the remote desert of central Washington along the Columbia River. Working with the Army Corps of Engineers, her SCA trail led her to long hot days of performing exhausting physical work - removing more than 5000' of fencing that prevented deer from enjoying their natural habitat and sometimes even caused them harm.
On this particular day, as documented in her trip diary, it became clear to her why her work was so important:
6/28...Read the full story
President Bush Visits the Northwest with a Focus on Forest Plan
President Bush arrives in Oregon today. This fundarising stop for the 2004 campaign is expected to highlight Bush's environmental agenda. Key issues on the table are wildfires, logging, and the Northwest Forest Plan. The latter was enacted by Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, in 1993 to protect against old-growth logging and preserve habitat of the endagered spotted owl. Bush is proposing some wholesale changes to the Northwest Forest Plan. Find out more:
Bush To Stay Out of Forest Fracas in Visit to State | Seattle P-I
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August 21, 2003 | Comments Off
New York - Environmental Model for the Northwest?
Northwest Environment Watch's Executive Director, Alan Durning, recently wrote an interesting article for Grist Magazine on environmental lessons that the Northwest could take from New York City, of all places. While Durning is quick to point out that New Yorkers produce far more trash, consume considerably more water per person, and aren't exactly known for their clean air and water, he notes that New Yorkers uses far less energy per resident than Northwesterners. In fact, Northwest residents use one...Read the full story
August 20, 2003 | Comments Off
Washington Trails Association hosts Northwest Exposure Photo Contest
Backpacks all over Washington are weighing in a little heavier these days as hikers gear up with camera equipment for Northwest Exposure, the new photo contest hosted by Earth Share of Washington member Washington Trails Association. The contest seeks to exhibit the splendor of Washington's wild areas and provide a forum for both aspiring and experienced nature photographers. "With stunning pictures from Washington's wilderness, we hope to encourage both exploration and preservation of our state's natural areas," said Lauren Braden, Communications Director for Washington Trails Ass...Read the full story
August 17, 2003 | Comments Off
"ReLeaf" for Wildfires - American Forests Education & Restoration Initiative
Wildfire ReLeaf is a national campaign by Earth Share of Washington member American Forests, the nation's oldest nonprofit conservation organization and a world leader in planting trees for environmental restoration, and the USDA Forest Service, which manages 192 million acres of public lands and is a leader in wildland fire restoration, science, research, and suppression activities.
Wildfire ReLeaf's ecosystem restoration and tree planting initiative is designed to plant millions of trees in environmentally sensitive areas scorched by wildfires of recent years. With support from ...Read the full story
August 16, 2003 | Comments Off
