Park projects in line for fundsFunding approved for Cascade-Siskiyou Monument, Crater Lake visitor center Oct 31, 2009
Dave Willis of the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council says the purchases are helping to strengthen protections for a crucial ecological resource linking the Cascade Range and the Siskiyou Mountains. The bill includes $350,000 for Crater Lake National Park to renovate an old building in Rim Village into a new visitors center. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Study: Warm forests may yield less timber Oct 27, 2009
Maps in the study showed the lowest growth rates in southwestern Oregon s Klamath Mountains and the east side of the Cascade Range, where temperatures are warm and rain is limited. The highest growth rates showed in the Olympic Mountains and Northern Cascades of Washington and the Blue Mountains of Oregon. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Fall on the way: freezing likely east of Cascades Sep 21, 2009
Two days before the start of fall, there's a decided nip in the air east of the Cascade Range. Temperatures reached the freezing point, 32 degrees, early Sunday morning in Redmond, Ore. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Russell summits Alaskas Mount McKinley Sep 16, 2009
Since he began climbing mountains, Russell said he has scaled Mount Baker in the Cascade Range of Washington State and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in East Africa. The mountain (Kilimanjaro) is about a hundred miles from the equator. (Burlington Union, MA)
Seattle gets first measurable rain since July 13 Aug 11, 2009
The damp interlude will make it easier on forest crews battling 30 small wildfires in five clusters west of the Cascade Range, he said. Longer-range projections are for below-normal precipitation through February and a warmer than usual winter, he said. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues Jul 3, 2009
"We have known that forests in this region have high productivity, and in recent years we have learned they have a high potential to store large amounts of carbon even at very old ages," said Beverly Law, a professor of forest science at OSU. "The forests west of the Cascade Range are also wetter and less likely to be lost to fire. We suspected these forests might provide more opportunity for carbon storage than has been recognized, and these data support that." ... Contrary to accepted views on... (EurekAlert!)
READY TO RIDE Jun 30, 2009
Just twenty miles or so from the Pike Place Market, the valley is one of many green and pleasant lands hugging the Cascade Range, but there's something special about this place, which stretches from up near suburban Redmond, home of Microsoft, all the way over east of North Bend, the old lumber town that featured prominently in the '90s cult television show, "Twin Peaks". Here in the Snoqualmie, you can duck out of the ever-growing megacity Seattle has become, if only for an afternoon; with a... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
DHS Anti-Terror Cameras Used to Stop Golf Balls May 17, 2009
The neighborhood, named for the prominent Rucker family, which built a hilltop mansion there in the early 1900s, boasts some of the city's best views of Port Gardner, the Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range. There have long been tensions between the neighborhood and the port over noise from container ships that are sometimes unloaded in the middle of the night, glare from floodlights and exhaust from idling vessels. (Fox News)
Heavy Snow Forecast For Mountains Mar 25, 2009
Winter continues to hang on in Washington, with 10 to 20 inches of snow is forecast in the Cascade Range. As much as a foot of snow is expected in the Blue Mountains in the southeast part of the state. (KIRO TV, WA)
