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News about energy and natural resources in the Pacific Northwest
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The Pacific Northwest’s approach to energy planning is different from just about everywhere else in the world: It is a regionally coordinated, public process where everyone – utilities, interest groups, and individual citizens – can help decide how we meet our energy needs. And, most notably, it strives to balance the region’s energy needs with the needs of fish and wildlife. Read more.
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The state of the economy is a critical factor in determining future energy needs, so analyzing the key economic drivers and developing a regional load forecast is one of the first tasks to complete on the way to building the Council's regional power plan. Read more.
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The healthiest populations are those than can still reach the ocean; for others, hatcheries and habitat improvements target declining stocks. Read more.
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Once wildly prolific, eulachon, also known as smelt, are declining, and a lack of funding hampers research and management of this very popular fish. Read more.
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From the ship's cat to the cluttered laboratory and lace curtains on the portholes, Laurie Wietkamp found that life aboard the Professor Kaganovskiy was just a bit different that what she was used to. Read more.
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