Tag: Ecology
6 article(s) found with this tag.
Bringing history and historian together
Winter 2011
Historian Douglas Brinkley recently visited Seattle to interview
William D. Ruckelshaus, the founding head of the Environmental
Protection Agency and advisor to a variety of Northwest clean water
and community groups.Ruckelshaus first mad...
Categories: History, Public affairs
Tags: Ecology, Government, Public service
Leave it to beavers
Spring 2010
As we crunch
through the snow in the hills above Winthrop, Steve Bondi ’02 and Ryan
Anderson ’08 are eager to see evidence that their project to improve
riparian habitat and provide late season water to the Methow Valley is
working. Theyâ...
Categories: Biological sciences, Environmental studies
Tags: Ecology, Beavers
Stormwater central
Winter 2009
There’s nothing
mundane about the new parking lot at the WSU research and extension
center in Puyallup. It is a state-of-the-art polluted water collection
system. The 70...
Categories: WSU Extension, Environmental studies
Tags: Sustainability, Ecology, Water quality, Stormwater
Time will tell
Winter 2007
Climate change is nothing new to our planet. But this time it's
different. The carbon dioxide we are putting into the air through
industry, vehicle emissions, and deforestation is changing the way our
soil works. That in turn affects plant, animal, and eventually human
life. Through their research Washington State University scientists are
challenging the conventional view that more plants and forests will
solve our CO2 problems.
Categories: Biological sciences, Environmental studies
Tags: Ecology, Climate change
Kathleen Flenniken - You have to say what's true
Winter 2007
Kathleen Flenniken (née Dillon) '83 writes about her children
and vacuuming, about sex and death, about fame and Edna St. Vincent
Millay's husband ("Oh the beauty of his wretchedness."). Her poems
are tight and clear and smart and often very funn...
Categories: Poetry, Alumni
Tags: Ecology
Mounting a defense against biological invaders
Spring 2003
Whatever its impact on trade, the World Trade Organization has
opened the doors to biological invasion, says Dick Mack. A
professor of botany at Washington State University, Mack is a
leading authority on invasive species and lead author of
Predi...
Categories: Botany, Biological sciences
Tags: Ecology, Invasive weeds