The firefighters were assigned to the Kimiwan Complex of fires in the Peace River Fire Protection Area of northwest Alberta. Alberta has been in a crisis state because of the wildfires, which have been ongoing since March.
It s Orca Action Month and a restoration project in Puget Sound will help provide more salmon to the aquatic mammals. Highway development has degraded the Duckabush estuary on the Olympic Peninsula. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has designed a project to elevate Highway 101 and restore tidelands, helping juvenile salmon habitat. .
Utah state leaders held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new firefighting center to be built along the Wasatch Front. Jamie Barnes, director of forestry, fire and state lands for the Utah Department of Natural Resources, said the new building is "a step forward for the state s wild land s fire program." She noted the new building will serve as the headquarters for the state s fire program, which responds to fires on state and private land, and also helps support other agencies like the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. .
Groundwater decline is a serious problem in parts of the country, but not in the Lower Republican Natural Resources District in south-central Nebraska, one of 23 such districts across the state. Farmers and producers in the district have thrived despite nearly 20 years of the strictest water allocations and restrictions in the state. Todd Siel, general manager of the district, said in 2004, its board limited groundwater irrigators to an average of nine acre-inches per acre, per year, or 45 acre-inches over a five-year period. .
A new study underscored the urgent need for policies to drive down emissions from U.S. oil and gas production, showing the public health effects are costing billions of dollars. The research estimated in 2016, in the U.S. .