environment: March 2009

Today's surge in the stock market notwithstanding, it seems as if there's been precious little positive news lately. So when I found out that a trumpeter swan -- rehabilitated after being injured by poachers -- was going to take wing again, I jumped on the story.
Trumpeter swans are easy to find in Skagit and Whatcom Counties this time of year. Thousands of them winter here; they'll head north to Alaska in the next few weeks.

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Washington, DC and farming are hardly linked in the popular consciousness, unless you're thinking of the Department of Agriculture. But there's a move afoot to change that. A few months back, the New York Times' Michael Pollan called for the new position of White House farmer. He's not talking about a Cabinet-level job; to him, it seems much more important than that. Pollan posits that food security is part and parcel of national secu...

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