August 24, 2013
Pacific NWNews Service
Members of the National Press Photographers Association
Picture by Ron Rattray-Grand Forks at Night
unday: A slight chance of showers before 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. Northwest wind around 9 mph becoming southwest in the evening.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. South wind 5 to 8 mph.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57.
SPEND THE DAY WITH WSP ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK
- Eighteen-hour “agency snapshot” on Thursday-(Olympia)—Next Thursday is your chance to get an inside look at operations of the Washington State Patrol, courtesy of Twitter and Facebook.
WSP will present a #daywithWSP, tweeting events that are happening around the state in real-time.
Most people are familiar with troopers in white cars who respond to collisions and disabled vehicles. Less well-known are other WSP employees who play key roles in keeping the public safe on the roads, at their places of business and in their homes.
“We have great people, and want the public to see the entire depth and breadth of what they do,” said WSP Chief John R. Batiste. “This will be as close a look as you can get without actually coming to work for us.”
Although intended for every member of the public, next Thursday’s #daywithWSP might have special value for those contemplating a change of employment.
“WSP has some interesting careers and we are always looking for public service minded people to join us,” said Capt. Jeff DeVere, commander of WSP’s Human Resources Division. “Even if you haven’t been thinking about a career change, take a look. There are many places in our agency that offer challenge and satisfaction for people who want to be part of something special.”
Incidents or events that require more than 140 characters will first be tweeted, and then explained in more detail on the agency’s Facebook site. Nothing will be simulated, and the #daywithWSP will not be a compilation. Everything tweeted will have happened that day.
The 2013 edition of #daywithWSP will start at 6:00 a.m. on Aug. 29, and run until midnight. To participate, follow us @wastatepatrol or monitor the hashtag #daywithWSP.
Hi Everyone,
This is the young Grizzly we watched having a stand off with a coyote in
May of this year at Yellowstone National Park. The coyote was eventual
successful in leading the Griz away from his den which most likely
contained his mate and pups. If you would like to see a short video of
them in action have a look here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxhVBgMEr0
Rick Price
Photo by Bob Shannon
I’ve
gone on the salmon-spawning tours that local environmentalists give,
and I’m not the only person who by the end is openly weeping. If we’re
lucky, we see 15 fish. Prior to conquest there were so many fish the
rivers were described as “black and roiling.” And it’s not just salmon.
Only five years ago, whenever I’d pick up a piece of firewood, I’d have
to take off a half-dozen sowbugs. It’s taken me all winter this year to
see as many. And I used to go on spider patrol before I took a shower,
in order to remove them to safety before the deluge. I still go on
spider patrol, but now it’s mostly pro forma. The spiders are gone. My
mother used to put up five hummingbird feeders, and the birds would
fight over those. Now she puts up two, and as often as not the sugar
ferments before anyone eats it. I used to routinely see bats in the
summer. Last year I saw one.
You
can transpose this story to wherever you live and whatever members of
the nonhuman community live there with you. I was horrified a few years
ago to read that many songbird populations on the Atlantic Seaboard have
collapsed by up to 80 percent over the last 40 years. But, and this is
precisely the point, I was even more horrified when I realized thatSilent Spring came
out more than 40 years ago, so this 80 percent decline followed an
already huge decline caused by pesticides, which followed another
undoubtedly huge decline caused by the deforestation, conversion to
agriculture, and urbanization that followed conquest.
My
great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a
tiny girl—in other words, only four human generations ago—there were
still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning
storms would spook them and they would trample her home. Who in Nebraska
today worries about being trampled by bison? For that matter, who in
Nebraska today even thinks about bison on a monthly, much less daily,
basis?
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. --
A giant wildfire raging out of control spread into Yosemite National
Park on Friday as authorities urged more evacuations in nearby
communities where thousands have already been forced out by flames
marching through the timbered slopes of the western Sierra Nevada.
The fire hit the park at the height of summer season, as
officials geared up for a busy Labor Day weekend. It has closed some
backcountry hiking but was not threatening the Yosemite Valley region,
one of California's most popular tourist destinations.
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