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A honeybee pollinates an apple blossom. (Credit: N. Wiman / Washington State University)

How can you attract pollinators to your garden?

Phineas Pope

What are the ways people can attract pollinators to their gardens this spring?

Volunteers with the Columbia Basin chapter of Washington's Native Plant Society met up at a local hiking hotspot in southeastern Washington on a cold November afternoon to replant sagebrush tubelings and scatter seeds on a small section of a burn scar. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / Northwest News Network)

Volunteers helping sagebrush, wildflowers grow where fires burned

(Runtime 1:03)After the Hansen Road fire burned along the hills just outside Benton City in southeastern Washington this past summer, signs of life are…

Látis Nowland, of Mission, Oregon, digs for wild celery, or latit latit in the Umatilla language, as Tatum Ganuelas, right, and Beth Looney search the surrounding hills. Nowland said she’s been doing this work since the Sunday after she was born, when her mother, Trinette Minthorn, brought her along in a baby board. The women were among a group of about 15 women and girls who gathered for the sacred tradition that marks the arrival of spring for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

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Moving up the line: Northwest tribal women and girls gather wild celery amid challenges

Anna King

Around this time each year, women and girls from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation gather wild celery. They say their ancestors come back through the plant, and the ceremonial dig marks the arrival of spring.