by Susan Keown | Feb 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Eric Scigliano (@SeattleFlotsam) just completed a series on the Fraser River, or Tacoutche Tesse (Mighty One), for the Salish Current. In the first piece in the series, Scigliano gives an overview of the still-undammed river’s geography, its fisheries, and its history...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Writing for Salish Sea Currents Magazine, Sarah DeWeerdt (@deweerdt_sarah) asks: Can restoring the natural balance of Washington’s Nooksack River also reduce flood risks? Instead of dredging gravel from the riverbed — as some have proposed — many experts say that...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
The Duwamish River became the industrial core of a prosperous Seattle, writes Robin Lindley (@robinlindley2) for EarthX, but the river and the marginalized people who live along its banks suffered the consequences. After a segment of the lower Duwamish was declared a...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 2, 2016 | ScienceWire
Waterways don’t have actual organs. But Tom Rickey (@trickeyPNNL) makes a convincing case that a river’s edge performs vital cleansing and regulating functions, just like our liver. Tom writes about a recent Nature Communications paper by Pacific Northwest National...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
An award-winning newspaper series from Linda Mapes with stunning photos by Steve Ringman is now Elwha: A River Reborn. This book, from the Seattle Times and Mountaineers Books describes a major dam-removal project in 2011 on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula that...
