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Weekly Outdoors & Environment Newsletter

Friday, December 28, 2007

Big projections for Cowlitz River in 2008
OVERVIEW

Spend time near Skagit River to spot national icon
ROCKPORT - Dennis Joyce of Marysville was simply minding his own business as he strolled past the old ferry and cabin at Howard Miller Steelhead Park.

The real gift is to find beauty every day of the year
This is my 46th Christmas, and I love the lights of this holiday celebrated during the darkest, coldest time of year more and more.

Space-based solar panels attract serious attention
BALI, Indonesia - While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for its energy.

Children vulnerable to toxins
Children are at risk from toxic substances. Their bodies are small and developing, and their activities can bring them in contact with toxins. Important organ systems continue to develop throughout childhood, including some that help filter toxins.

Environment briefs
Highest tide of year comes Christmas Day

Sea lice (South Sound marine life)
Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis)

Sea ice crucial to walrus
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As federal marine mammal experts in Alaska scramble to study how global warming will affect walruses, polar bears and ice seals, they warn there are limits to the protections they can provide.

Adopt-a-duck program gets huge response
SPOKANE - Within hours of Spokane parks officials announcing a new adopt-a-duck program this week, the phones at city offices began ringing.

Where is this?
This is a chance for outdoors enthusiasts with knowledge of the Northwest to win prizes in The Olympian's weekly outdoors photo contest.

Gary Loomis looms large in coastal conservation
EUGENE, Ore. - He's hobnobbed with presidents. His likeness hangs alongside those of Ernest Hemingway and Zane Gray in the Sportfishing Hall of Fame. He's been "up to his armpits" in mud working to improve salmon habitat, and now he's up to his eyebrows in politics, having concluded that therein lies the only hope of saving his beloved salmon and steelhead.

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