Environmental Sciences

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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
Soap Lake's healing waters studied more closely	A longtime resident is one step closer to solving the mystery of Soap Lake. John Glassco's life mission has been to preserve and research the healing waters of Soap Lake. The Soap Lake Conservancy Board chairman recently passed along the only water samples taken from the lake before…	2014-03-19
Rybczyk to discuss rising seas and ecosystem restoration March 13		2014-03-12

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

Soap Lake's healing waters studied more closely

A longtime resident is one step closer to solving the mystery of Soap Lake.
John Glassco's life mission has been to preserve and research the healing waters of Soap Lake. The Soap Lake Conservancy Board chairman recently passed along the only water samples taken from the lake before…

2014-03-19

Rybczyk to discuss rising seas and ecosystem restoration March 13

2014-03-12