Taking advantage of daytime low tides, teams of archaeological students and their supervisors worked with painstaking care last week to uncover treasures at a Squaxin Island Tribe ancestral fish and food processing camp on the shores of lower Eld Inlet. — Taking advantage of daytime low tides, teams of archaeological students and their supervisors worked with painstaking care last week to uncover treasures at a Squaxin Island Tribe ancestral fish and food processing camp on the shores of lower Eld Inlet.
Every year in Washington, more than 16 million pounds of "stuff" is intentionally tossed from vehicles or accidentally blown onto our roads.
•Orange Sea Cucumber (Cucumaria miniata)
•Group to urge $100 million for program
•Volunteer to help chum salmon
•4-H birdwatching club may get started
•Chehalis River Basin meeting is Friday
•Conservation district meeting rescheduled
The Meridian Seed Orchard, owned and operated by the state Department of Natural Resources, is an island of funny-looking trees in a sea of spreading suburbia.
Database online tracks toxic algae
Weed, mulch at Woodard Creek
Learn during walk by Budd Inlet
Workshop to teach shellfish growing
Program to provide forage areas for elk
Batteries are among the most common hazardous wastes found in homes and businesses. Given their widespread use in everyday products, it's not surprising that residents and businesses often find themselves with a stockpile of batteries. The recent WasteMobile event in Yelm collected nearly 4,000 pounds of all varieties of batteries.
Rockweed (fucus spiralis)
OLYMPIA — The city of Olympia will expand its yard waste residential program to include food waste and food-soiled paper, starting today.
Farming practices at The Evergreen State College Organic Farm are safe for salmon, according to a Seattle-based nonprofit conservation group.