Despite snow, rain, Pacific Northwest faces drought
Much of Washington, Oregon and Idaho are already experiencing moderate, severe and even extreme levels of drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Author: Associated Press Updated: 9:09 AM EDT April 29, 2021
MOUNT VERNON, Wash Despite a healthy amount of snowfall in the North Cascades over the winter and some recent rain, the Pacific Northwest slid last week into the “abnormally dry” drought category.
“We’ve had some unseasonably dry weather. … We’ve seen an intensification of dryness since February, and particularly in the past 60 days,” said Kelsey Jencso of the Montana Climate Office. “It is shaping up to be a pretty dry spring.”
Drought threatens Pacific Northwest despite snow, rain
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Feds start endangered Southern Resident orca review By Associated Press
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MOUNT VERNON NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service says it’s starting a five-year status review of the Southern Resident orcas.
NOAA Fisheries published a notice in the Federal Register about the status review last week, The Skagit Valley Herald reported. The whales were listed as endangered in 2005 under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Since the 1990s, the number of orcas in the three family groups called J, K and L pods that make up the population has dropped from the high 90s into the 70s.
The orcas, also called killer whales, live along the West Coast and frequent the Salish Sea.