Wildlife officials are asking the public in Issaquah's Squak Mountain and Cougar Mountain neighborhoods to be on the lookout for a large black bear that has well outgrown his research collar.
Century School students learned how to take scientific measurements of the garden's growth and started a strip of pollinator prairie with wildlife-friendly fruiting shrubs around the perimeter of the community garden.
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A Texas guardsman with a U.S. Border Patrol agent at the Texas-Mexico border in 2018.
The governor summoned additional manpower after an increase in the number of people illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
In June, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his counterpart in Arizona, Gov. Doug Ducey, wrote a letter to other Republican governors asking for help.
There was an emergency along the border with Mexico, they wrote. As spring turned to summer the number of migrants illegally crossing into the United States increased. Law enforcement was stretched thin.
“Given the staggering number of violations occurring in Texas and Arizona, additional manpower is needed from any State that can spare it,” Abbott and Ducey said.