Forests & Wildlife - Research & Publications

06/12/2007
Fact sheet

2007 Wildlife Indicator - At a Glance

The latest addition to the Cascadia Scorecard--Sightline's wildlife index--tracks population counts of five key indicator species: gray wolves, mountain caribou, greater sage-grouse, orcas, and Chinook salmon.

03/01/2006
Article by Sightline

Accounting 101 for Endangered Species

Dust off your sense of outrage, fellow taxpaying Americans. Endangered species are freeloading to the tune of $1.4 billion in state and federal spending, according to a new report from the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

12/12/2005
Newsletter article

Sightline Profile: Peter and Pam Hayes

Longtime Sightline friends Peter and Pam Hayes, who manage 800 acres of sustainably managed forests in Oregon, are pioneering a strategy called community-connected forestry.

10/07/2005
Fact sheet

Wildlife Indicator - Gray Wolves

The west was wolfless until the mid-1990s, when small populations were re-introduced.

10/07/2005
Fact sheet

Wildlife Indicator - Chinook Salmon

No creature, beside humans, penetrates the Pacific Northwest as thoroughly as salmon. The wildlife index tracks Chinook salmon returning as adults to the Bonneville Dam, the lowest dam on the Columbia River.

10/07/2005
Fact sheet

Wildlife Indicator - Orcas

Sightline's wildlife index tracks the southern resident orcas that inhabit the inland seas of Washington and British Columbia.

10/07/2005
Fact sheet

Wildlife Indicator - Greater Sage-Grouse

The greater sage-grouse, a popular gamebird in eastern Oregon and Washington, is an excellent indicator of the health of the sagelands country in the inland Northwest, an ecosystem rich in native biological integrity.

10/07/2005
Fact sheet

Wildlife Indicator - Caribou

Caribou are highly endangered in the lower 48 United States and British Columbia. The remaining population in the Northwest consists of the tiny Selkirk herd, which occupies a small area of northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and an adjacent portion of BC.

04/01/2005
Newsletter article

Sea Otters Show Signs of Life

Sea otters affect many layers of the ecosystem they inhabit, and the success of their return to British Columbia and Washington signifies the beginning of a return to healthy and thriving natural systems.

03/07/2005
Fact sheet

Forests Indicator - Highlights

Cascadia's success at caring for old-growth forests and putting a sustainable forestry system in place.

03/07/2005
Fact sheet

Forests indicator - Q&A

Facts on Sightline's satellite study of five forested areas in the Northwest, and how they compare in clearcutting and sustainable forestry.

07/22/2004
Article by Sightline

Fate of state forests rests in Olympia

Over the next year, a half-dozen people in Olympia will decide the fate of forests vast enough to fill Mount Rainier National Park nearly nine times over.

06/07/2004
Newsletter article

What's Green and Good for the Economy? FSC Certification

A market-based solution called Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) would keep timber harvest revenues flowing, leave old growth standing, and protect workers.

05/26/2004
Article by Sightline

Unhappy Trails

The Northwest's backcountry offers a grim preview of what's to come thanks to global warming.

06/01/1999
Book

Green Collar Jobs

A look at the Northwest's changing economy by chronicling the stories of five communities: Ketchikan, Alaska; Bend, Oregon; Haida Gwaii, British Columbia; Hayfork, California; and Boonville, California.