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What DON’T You Know About Washington State?
I'm sure there is plenty that Washington residents know about the State they call home. For example, Seattle is the most populated city in the Evergreen State with just under 750,000 people, but is it also the largest city by land mass?. At nearly 84 square miles Seattle also happens...
Washington State Fire Marshall: Stay safe this BBQ season
Now that it's barbecue season, fire experts would like you to think safety first. According to the Washington State Fire Marshall's Office, cooking fires sparked by outdoor grilling totaled more than 2,000 responses by firefighters causing more than $10 million dollars' worth of damage. The State Fire Marshall asks that...
From Pixels to Pints: The Best Gaming Bars and Cafes in Washington
There has been a bit of a resurgence of arcades in the last decade or so. What once was the go-to hangout spot in many malls and pizza parlors across the nation is now taking the demographic that grew up with them in the '80s and '90s and now have bars that also have these classic video games.
Washington tribes get $39.4 million for salmon habitat restoration, culvert removal efforts
Ten tribes from around Puget Sound will receive a total of $39.4 million from the federal government to advance salmon population restoration projects. The money, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will help replace old culverts, pipes or tunnels that carry a stream or creek underneath roadways, which obstruct fish from traveling between their spawning waters and the sea. The Tulalip Tribes will receive $10.7 million of that new funding, which will be used to create access to more than 128 miles of upstream fish habitat by replacing 38 culverts identified in the Snohomish and Stillaguamish basins. “When it comes to salmon recovery … it's a lot easier to conserve existing habitat than it is to restore habitat,” said Ryan Miller, director of treaty rights and government affairs for the Tulalip Tribes. "And in a lot of these cases, these barriers are preventing fish from getting to what we would call pretty good habitat.”
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