Environment
Environment
![Workers clear canals of debris in preparation for spring irrigation season in the Roza Irrigation District. (Credit: Dave Rollinger)](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PHOTO-1-500x500.jpg)
As the Northwest turns toward Spring, agricultural irrigators, fire managers and water experts watch the sky
Workers clear canals of debris in preparation for spring irrigation season in the Roza Irrigation District. (Courtesy: Dave Rollinger) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read A story in plot points: a federal
![An aerial photo shows the lower village of Taholah near a bright blue ocean.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/taholah-500x490.jpg)
Funding for Northwest tribes to help challenges with housing, climate change
Listen An aerial view of the lower village of Taholah, Washington on the edge of the Pacific Coast. (Credit: Quinault Indian Nation) (Runtime :48) Read New funding from the U.S.
![A photo from a game trail camera shows a pack of white, grey and black wolves walking across a snowy mountainside with evergreen trees behind them.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP21145838854060-500x500.jpg)
Nez Perce Tribe honors the wolf
In this Feb. 1, 2017, file image provided the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, a wolf pack is captured by a remote camera in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
![Gary Chastagner stands near a green fir tree while wearing a black WSU jacket and jeans.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AP23353597060352-500x500.jpg)
“Dr. Christmas Tree” working to prevent disease in Northwest conifer trees
Gary Chastagner, a Washington State University professor called “Dr. Christmas Tree” shows an example of a less-desirable tree due to fewer top branches, grown in a small plantation of Turkish
![The poured glass appears emerald green, just before it’s lidded and transported to an export bay at Hanford in southeast Washington. Hanford officials are celebrating this first container of glass to be poured from the Waste Treatment Plant at the radioactive cleanup site. (Courtesy: Bechtel)](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/PHOTO-1-HANFORD-500x500.jpg)
Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant churns out first container of clean test glass
The poured glass appears emerald green, just before it’s lidded and transported to an export bay at Hanford in southeast Washington. Hanford officials are celebrating this first container of glass
![A sunrise over blue mountains. The mountains are dotted with evergreen trees.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20200808_200117-500x500.jpg)
Thousands of Northwest jobs could come from new Forest Service plan
A sunrise over the Rocky Mountains from Rocky Ridge Campground in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests on August 8, 2020 (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen (Runtime :59) Read A
![A fluffy brown Columbian ground squirrel with black beady eyes sits on a mound of dirt and grass under the sun.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Columbian-Ground-Squirrel-_-National-Park-Service-500x500.jpg)
Ground Squirrel “High School” features classes, cliques and clubs
Columbian ground squirrels are only active for around two months of the year, and spend most of their time hibernating. (Credit: David Restivo / National Park Service) Listen (Runtime :57)
![People gather at the shores of the Snake River in Hells Gate State Park outside of Lewiston, Idaho. Desert mountains can be seen in the distance as canoes sit on a sandy shore under clouds.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/FloatillaAttendees_HellsGateStateParkID_093023_LaurenPaterson-500x500.jpg)
As Biden negotiates future of lower Snake River dams, Northwest tribes push for removal
Attendees gather on the shores of the Snake River at Hells Gate State Park to take place in the All Our Relations flotilla on September 30, 2023. (Credit: Lauren Paterson
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No Air Conditioner? No Sweat! Build A DIY Swamp Cooler
Different typed of DIY Swamp Coolers https://www.diycraftsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/7-Simple-DIY-Homemade-Swamp-Cooler-Plans.jpg STORY BY ASH BEARD AND MARY ELLEN PITNEY Originally pusblished July 28, 2022 A heat wave is on the way in Eastern Washington.
![Wilfires in Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Incendios-foretales-en-Hawaii-500x500.jpg)
Vacaciones en el “paraíso” se convierten en desastre para familia de Washington
Cuando una familia de Tri-Cities viajó a Hawai, esperaba que fueran las vacaciones de su vida. En lugar de eso, se encontraron con las mismas condiciones a las que están acostumbrados: fuertes vientos, mucho humo y desastrosos incendios forestales.
![Sourdough wildfire in Whatcom County.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Incendio-de-Sourdough-cerca-de-la-autopista-20.png)
HWY 20 parcialmente reabierta: Bomberos trabajan activamente en la zona del incendio de Sourdough
La autopista estatal 20 había sido cerrada entre Newhalem y Rainy Pass, en el condado de Whatcom, ya que es el principal punto de acceso para los bomberos que trabajan en el incendio de Sourdough.
![A bright orange fire erupts on evergreen trees in a McCall Idaho forest.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP19220804556482-500x500.jpg)
Red Flag Warning: What does it mean?
In this Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, photo released by the U.S. Forest Service flames from the Nethker Fire engulf trees at Payette National Forest near McCall, Idaho. The Northwest has