Tussock moth caterpillars are stripping fir trees throughout the state. To keep our trees healthy, the Forest Service is fighting back with a spray-on virus straight out of sci-fi.
Using machinery and prescribed burns, land managers hope to safeguard 2.7 million acres of forest from catastrophic fires like the one that destroyed Paradise in California.
A young resident killer whale chases a chinook salmon in the Salish Sea near San Juan Island, Washington, in September 2017. Courtesy of Oregon State University.
Contractors place an engineered cover, called geomembrane, over the balefill area at Pasco Sanitary Landfill. The fire under this area burned for about two years. Photo credit: John Richards