Mount St. Helens climbing permits will be cut back to reduce crowding
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
Posted Jan 30, 2021
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The slopes of Mount St. Helens will be a little less crowded this year.
The U.S. Forest Service announced Friday that fewer climbing permits will be issued during the peak season in 2021, in an effort to reduce crowds and parking issues during the coronavirus pandemic.
From April 1 to May 14, the forest service will reduce the number of available permits from 500 to 300 per day, the agency announced in a news release. The forest service will also increase the number of permits issued between May 15 and Oct. 31, from 100 to 110 per day, though it will not be enough to offset the reduction.
Cowlitz Indian Tribe gets grant to survey beaver habitat The Columbian
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LONGVIEW The Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s beaver re-establishment project got a federal boost this year, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose the tribe as a 2020 Tribal Wildlife Grant recipient.
The approximately $177,000 grant will allow the Tribe’s Natural Resources Department to survey habitat segments within the tributary sub-basins of the Lower Columbia River to help plan for strategic relocation of beaver into large areas of Southwest Washington, according to a Fish and Wildlife press release.
Beavers are a keystone species, meaning their presence in ecosystems greatly affects watershed function and all the other wildlife species around them, say wildlife experts.
Vancouver man’s ‘life was cut short’ by COVID-19
Coronavirus complications claim supportive, outdoorsy David Alt; his son wants family’s experience to get people to take disease seriously
Published: January 15, 2021, 6:02am
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5 Photos David Alt poses with his wife, Helen Alt. David Alt liked to hike and be outdoors. He died in November at age 75 due to complications from coronavirus. His son, David Alt II, is sharing his father s COVID-19 story in hopes that people who hear it will take the virus more seriously. We have a larger responsibility to the community, he said. (Contributed photo) Photo Gallery
When David Alt II was attending college in Pullman, he used to come home to visit his dad in Vancouver, and help him build an A-frame house.
Storm causes power outages, landslides in Clark County By Jerzy Shedlock, Columbian Breaking News Reporter, and
Published: January 13, 2021, 8:12pm
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4 Photos Stormy winter weather caused a small landslide Wednesday about a half-mile southeast of Daybreak Bridge in the 24700 block of Northeast 92nd Avenue in Battle Ground. Clark County Public Works crews planned to close Northeast Manley Road near where it becomes 92nd Avenue. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
An overnight storm left a wake of disruptions in Southwest Washington and the Portland metro area Wednesday, with numerous power outages and landslides impeding traffic in Clark County and into the Columbia River Gorge and toward the Oregon Coast.
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