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2022 Legislative Session Highlights & Lowlights

2022 Legislative Session Highlights & Lowlights

by Zan McPherson | Apr 8, 2022 | Uncategorized

This year’s legislative session was short and bittersweet – while some exciting legislation made it through the session, there were quite a few disappointing losses. Below we’ve captured primary highlights and lowlights from the 2022 session, including...
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...
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...
Rethinking Infrastructure to Include Natural Spaces

Rethinking Infrastructure to Include Natural Spaces

by Zan McPherson | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized

When most Americans think of infrastructure, the first thing that usually comes to mind is large-scale transportation and civil engineering projects – highways, bridges, railways, dams and airports. These kinds of projects were essential to the country’s...
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