environment: May 2009

Federal Fish and Wildlife agents are investigating whether a cow found dead near Twisp is the first victim of the state's newly established wolf pack.
The so-called Lookout Mountain pack moved into Okanogan County several months ago and was first picked up by motion-activated cameras mounted in the woods.
Since then biologists managed to capture and radio-tag two members of the pack which is believed the first to live in Washington...

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They say Mount Rainier makes its own weather, so when the Northwest's highest peak allows the sun to shine on it, you take advantage.
With that in mind, a big group of us planned a Mother's Day hike to Camp Muir (some relation, so I am told). It's a base camp at about 10,000 feet with a few bunk houses where people rest before they make an assault on the 14,411-foot summit. But this would just be a day hike, roughly 9 miles round-trip. >> Continue reading: Not your mother's kind of walk

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This just in from The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: blue whales are back.
What is believed to be the largest creature to ever exist on this planet was teetering on the edge of extinction 20 years ago. A whaling ban was credited for a rebound in their population, but the giant mammals abandoned a traditional migratory route up the Pacific from their California breeding grounds.
NOAA now reports the whales have app...

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