Washington Orca Population Heads South
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Washington state&#39;s resident killer whales, with two newborns in tow, dodged a potentially lethal roadblock in their voyage south to feast on a healthy run of chum salmon, experts say.
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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  May 31--Trouble is stirring where only the deer, elk and sportsmen once roamed.   Washington's wildlife recreation lands have been managed in decent harmony with hunters and fishermen over the past seven decades.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it is recommending that the orcas that ply the Puget Sound should be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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with two newborns in tow -- are heading south for the fall &quot;chum festival,&quot; says a whale researcher in the San Juan Islands.
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By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 11--Thurston County officials ruled Friday that an application by South Sound commercial geoduck growers for a countywide shoreline development permit for future geoduck farms is incomplete.
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The little-known vaquita, of which only about 400 remain, may be the next marine mammal to disappear, researchers warn.
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The federal government has approved plans to spend more than &#36;2.4 million to squeeze the world's largest colony of salmon-eating Caspian terns off a Columbia River island so they will establish new nesting areas as far away as San Francisco Bay.
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By Courtney Sherwood, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb.
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In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers.
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BAKU. June 18 (Interfax) - The decline in the Caspian seal population may be the result of warm winters, declining fish stocks, and pollution of the Caspian Sea, the website of Azerbaijan's Environment and Natural Resources Ministry says.
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ENSENADA, Mexico  - For years, Cristina Imana has  gazed out from her clifftop porch near the Mexican resort town  of Ensenada and watched migrating gray whales roll around with  their babies in the glistening surf below.
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By Sean Boone, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Jun. 23--A recent annual sighting analysis from the Audubon Society of Florida reports that many of our indigenous state birds are drastically declining in numbers.
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By MARY PEMBERTON ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Despite an &quot;alarming&quot; decrease in sea otters in southwest Alaska, the federal government is dragging its heels when it comes to designating critical habitat to help them recover, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Coming ashore south of Fort Pierce on Saturday. Across the peninsula and exiting into the Gulf of Mexico north of New Port Richey on Sunday.
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Washington state's resident killer whales, with two newborns in tow, dodged a potentially lethal roadblock in their voyage south to feast on a healthy run of chum salmon, experts say.
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By Allen Thomas, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  May 31--The flotilla of boats anchored in the Columbia River near the upstream end of Lady Island numbered between 50 and 60 on Monday morning -- all that effort in pursuit of shad.
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By Allen Thomas, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 1--Commercial fishery may begin on Tuesday in lower Columbia   Gillnet fishing for spring chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River will not start before Tuesday.