trees

In the dark days of winter, it’s never too early to start thinking about what to plant in your garden this upcoming season.

(Runtime 3:55)The sun beat down on Tapteal Elementary School’s playground in West Richland. The asphalt was warm, and so was the play equipment. But a…

(Runtime 1:00)If a tree falls in Tumwater, someone is bound to notice. Recently, the city just south of Washington state’s capital has been cut up over a…

On an early and rainy June day, Ailene Ettinger is using a power drill to install a small, metal device on a utility pole. The device is a temperature logger, housed under a white rectangular UV radiation shield. Once installed, it constantly measures air temperature in this South Tacoma neighborhood, sending the data via Bluetooth to an app that Ettinger checks on her phone.

Chris Reykdahl, Washington’s superintendent of public schools says he would like to see the state legislature commit to financing school construction, but not the traditional way.

If you’ve ever backpacked in the Northwest’s mountaintops, you’ve likely spent some time among whitebark pines. These important trees are bringing together researchers across the West, who want to save them from a fatal fungus.

Trees have a little secret you might not know about. Yes, they produce oxygen. Yes, they take in carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping greenhouse gas. But, they also emit methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas that can be significantly more potent than carbon dioxide.

When it comes to surviving the warming climate, scientists are finding that some plants and animals have an edge. The hope is that these "super adapters" can help preserve their species.

There’s been a push to create a juniper wood products industry to get some of those trees off the landscape. But western juniper processing and sales is still a fledgling industry in the Pacific Northwest.

You might be in the market for a Christmas tree right about now, but have you thought about what type of Christmas tree you want in eight years?Believe it…