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December 11, 2025
A meadow sits inside a forested tract of land at the Vancouver Innovation Center site in east Vancouver. The city of Vancouver has purchased the 14.3-acre site for $4.3 million and plans to turn it into the city’s next park. (Contributed photo)

Vancouver plans community park

Parks leaders are celebrating the city of Vancouver’s official acquisition of a 14.3-acre parcel of undeveloped, forested land in east Vancouver set to become the city’s newest community park.

December 4, 2025
Veterinary students and scientists look over elk hooves recovered from a harvested elk. Research continues in an attempt to understand how Treponema Associated Hoof Disease infects elk in the wild. (WSU College of Veterinary Medicine)

Discovering the ‘how’ in elk hoof disease

Dr. Margaret Wild, the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine scientist heading up the effort to study hoof disease in elk, will soon be retiring.

November 13, 2025

WDFW mulls buying land for public fishing

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is looking to buy land in Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties to improve fishing access, the department announced recently.

November 6, 2025
Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky from Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership looks over an area along Salmon Creek planted with red-osier dogwood trees in February. Shade from trees is vital to stream health, according to recent data from Clark County’s Clean Water division. (The Columbian files)

Report finds Clark County’s rivers, streams getting warmer

Water temperatures in many of Clark County’s rivers and streams, especially in urban areas, continue to rise, according to the county’s most recent stream health report. That was the message Marlena Milosevich Butler of the county’s public works department shared at a water pollution symposium Tuesday.

October 30, 2025

Washougal High School to hold native plant sale

Washougal High School Green Team students will hold a native plant sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, in the Excelsior Building parking lot at Washougal High.