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Flight Plan: Charting a Course for Drones in Washington

This one-hour television special from TVW looks at the growing popularity of civilian drones, and the privacy questions they raise. TVW introduces you to hobbyists who are flying drones for fun, as well as professionals who want to use them for things like selling real estate or growing grapes.…

2014-10-24
Saving mountain goats with science, guts and good guesses

TO EMPATHIZE with the mountain goats of the Cascade Range, imagine the apocalypse has come and your extended family members are the only survivors on besieged Capitol Hill. Now it’s time to have children.

Unless you want to marry a cousin, you must reach another…

2014-07-21
Professor, students use UAVs to track elk herds 2014-04-17
Tribes, feds experiment with drones to count elk

Looking out over the town of Hamilton in the upper Skagit River valley from a hillside on state Department of Natural Resources land, a team of federal unmanned aircraft operators and local researchers scouted for elk.

They couldn’t see elk themselves from that high up, but they knew they…

2014-04-14
Drones plot upriver elk herd’s size

Looking out over the town of Hamilton in the upper Skagit River valley from a hillside on state Department of Natural Resources land, a team of federal unmanned aircraft operators and local researchers scouted for elk.
They couldn’t see elk themselves from that high up, but they knew they…

2014-04-11
New elk survey takes flight

Unmanned aircraft will scout a section of state-managed forest land north of Hamilton next week on the lookout for elk — a known hell-raiser in eastern Skagit Valley.
For several years, a growing herd has caused trouble for farmers, landowners and drivers along Highway 20 and the upper…

2014-04-08
WWU professor works to help protect mountain goats in the Cascades

When David Wallin was asked by the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe eight years ago to help figure out why the number of mountain goats in the Washington's Cascades was so low, he was puzzled.
"How could mountain goat populations possibly be in trouble?" wondered Wallin, an environmental…

2011-10-03
Saving an icon: Huxley's David Wallin working to restore mountain goats to the Cascades 2011-05-24
Wallin gives presentation, gets two grants to fund research project 2011-05-02
State studies animals near North Bend to reduce collisions

The ribbons of highway that crisscross Washington help move freight, commuters and vacationers. They also put humans and wild animals on a collision course.

Each year, 10,000 deer are hit on state highways, according to rough estimates by the Washington State…

2010-09-16
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