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RICHLAND, Wash. — The cherries are finally ready for harvest in the Northwestern U.S. A cold spring means that this is the latest cherry season anyone can remember. The Northwest News Network’s Anna King has this audio postcard from one of the largest fruit orchards in the world. SOUND: Quiet orchard amb Anna King:...
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Decades of state and federal efforts to recover endangered salmon in the Northwest are well-publicized. What’s less well-known is a project in its infancy—white sturgeon recovery. Scientists only seriously started studying sturgeon in the 1980’s, and concrete information about these fish—and how to care for them in a changing river system—is...
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 SALEM, Ore. – The Northwest egg industry is changing the way it houses chickens. But animal rights activists in Oregon and Washington say the change isn’t going far enough. Lawmakers in both Olympia and Salem debated the welfare of egg-laying hens this year. Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has already...
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Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 BOISE, Idaho – Farmers in Idaho should be pleased with all the spring rain, but all those storm clouds have kept temperatures low, sunlight to a minimum and seeds from sprouting on time. Emily Schwing reports. Sid Freeman is a third generation canyon county farmer and his family has...
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Fish researchers affectionately call sturgeons “dinosaur fish.” They’ve swum earth’s rivers for a quarter of a billion years, making them a living relic. But scientists actually know very little about the Columbia River’s white sturgeon population. Yesterday , researchers with the Yakama Nation, the Chelan and Grant County Public Utilities Districts, and a number...
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Like me, you probably often have a dozen eggs on your grocery list. And when you wake up bleary-eyed on a Saturday morning, you face the choice of how you will buy those eggs. In some parts of the country, there are three options for procuring eggs. You can buy them at a supermarket,...
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MONTESANO, Wash. – Northwest artisan cheese makers say the F.D.A. just doesn’t get their craft. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been getting tough on food companies after years of incidents like last August’s nation-wide egg recall. President Obama signed a new food safety law this month expanding the F.D.A.’s authority. But two...
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