Shortly after World War II, California fish managers had a brainstorm: They loaded juvenile trout into airplanes and saturation-bombed naturally fishless lakes in the High Sierra Mountains of California. Some of the fish hit rocks and ice, but most hit water.
In 2017, the public lost 1,470 acres of wilderness-quality land at the base of Mount Sopris near Aspen, Colorado.
Although I’ve lived in a small Western town for 30 years now, I have never known much about one of its fundamental institutions, the service club. Many small-town residents still center their lives on Lions, Elks, Rotary or similar organizations.
Former city councilor: school levies are vital to future of Washougal
To be the type of community that prioritizes its kids, vote ‘yes’ on WSD levies Imagine cutting 18% out of your household budget. What would you have to…
117,345 — the average number of Americans shot by guns each year. 40,620 — the average number of Americans killed by gun violence each year. 7,957 — the average number of U.S. children 17 and younger shot by guns each year.1,839 — the average number of U.S. children 17 and younger killed by guns each year. 547 — the average number of U.S. women killed by gun violence perpetrated by their husband or male dating partner. 132 — the number of mass shootings that have taken place in the U.S. so far this year. 209 — the number of people killed in U.S. mass shootings in 2023.
In the race to “electrify everything” there are glitches which may derail the plan over the next 20 years. One is a shortage of skilled electrical workers needed to rewire homes, make grid modifications, and install new electrical capacity.
In support of local school bonds, levies
The odds are against us. That is the bottom line in the latest IPCC report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on global warming, the most comprehensive scientific report to date. Once again we are told that 2030 is the year of living dangerously — when humanity must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half, and then proceed to stop them altogether by 2050.
The return of wolves to the West has always been contentious, and the deaths last fall of more than 40 cattle in western Colorado really alarmed ranchers. But here’s the true story: Wolves did not kill those cattle found dead near Meeker.
