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Q&A with Melissa Campbell, Executive Director at Washington Farmland Trust

Q&A with Melissa Campbell, Executive Director at Washington Farmland Trust

by Melissa Campbell | Oct 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

Tell us a bit about your role with Washington Farmland Trust. I’ve been with Washington Farmland Trust since 2008. I started as our stewardship coordinator and went on to lead our conservation program. Most recently, I served as Associate Director where I helped shape...
Better Ground on How to Help Save Our Orcas

Better Ground on How to Help Save Our Orcas

by Kelly McCaffrey and Zan McPherson | Sep 14, 2021 | Uncategorized

Orcas rely on their main food source, the endangered Chinook salmon, to survive. Due to habitat loss, climate change, and increased pollution, it has become even more difficult for migrating salmon to make the journey home to create new fish. Salmon are a critical...
Diving Into King County’s $9B Clean Water Healthy Habitat Initiative

Diving Into King County’s $9B Clean Water Healthy Habitat Initiative

by Zan McPherson | Sep 13, 2021 | Uncategorized

In April 2021, King County Executive Dow Constantine revealed a strategic initiative that, over the course of the next 30 years, will provide an intersectional approach to water protection, addressing everything from forest management to stormwater runoff to...
Western Wildfires: Indigenous Knowledge, Watershed Impacts, and Moving Toward a Resilient, Climate-Ready Land Management System

Western Wildfires: Indigenous Knowledge, Watershed Impacts, and Moving Toward a Resilient, Climate-Ready Land Management System

by Zan McPherson | Aug 16, 2021 | Uncategorized

Wildfire season is here, and it’s here to stay. By that we mean that those luxurious, infamous Western Washington summers of ten years ago – without smoke, drought, excessive heat, fire risk, and never-ending burn bans – are a thing of the past. This is a...
Q&A with Grist: Covering Climate in 2021

Q&A with Grist: Covering Climate in 2021

by Zan McPherson and Kate Yoder, Grist | Aug 16, 2021 | Uncategorized

Kate, tell us a bit about your role with Grist. I’m an associate editor, which means I get to do a little bit of everything. These days, I’m mostly working on my own projects. I tend to write about climate change as it relates to language, culture, and history — some...
Seattle and King County Release New Research on Local Urban Heat Islands

Seattle and King County Release New Research on Local Urban Heat Islands

by Zan McPherson | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized

We all know the last week of June was the hottest on record across many parts of Puget Sound. In the aftermath of this intense and deadly heat, we learned that some areas of King County can be up to 23 degrees hotter than other areas on hot days Areas with hotter...
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