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Rick Desautel, flanked by his daughter and his wife, Linda (right), celebrates his acquittal of illegal hunting charges outside the provincial courthouse in Nelson, British Columbia, in March 2017.

Canada says the Sinixt tribe is extinct. The tribe’s American descendants disagree.

Justice

What do you do when a country has officially declared your people extinct? One descendant of the Sinixt tribe went on an illegal elk hunt.

Robot Hut

Arts, Culture & Media
Wildlife cops

Underfunded wildlife enforcement in the Pacific Northwest fails to keep up with poachers

Justice
Canyon grassland

Invasive species threaten native grasslands in the Pacific Northwest

Environment
Noel Gomez

A conversation with Noel Gomez, sex trafficking survivor-turned-advocate

Development
Scientists with the US Geological Survey gather samples near coal train tracks in the Columbia Gorge near Washougal, Washington. Little research has been done on how coal interacts with the environment.

Scientists dig into booming coal exports and their effects on wetlands

Environment

While the US is using less coal than we have in the past, we plan to export more coal to Asia. That means transporting it by trains, as we’ve done for decades. But there’s very little research on the effects coal has on the environment when it escapes from coal hoppers bumping along the rails.