Wildlife
Up one level- Wildlife Indicator - Highlights by andrew joel — last modified 06/12/2007 at 12:23 AM
- 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.
- Wildlife Indicator - Caribou by andrew joel — last modified 06/29/2006 at 05:13 PM
- 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.
- Wildlife Indicator - Greater Sage-Grouse by andrew joel — last modified 06/29/2006 at 05:18 PM
- 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.
- Wildlife Indicator - Orcas by andrew joel — last modified 06/29/2006 at 05:10 PM
- Sightline's wildlife index tracks the southern resident orcas that inhabit the inland seas of Washington and British Columbia.
- Wildlife Indicator - Chinook Salmon by andrew joel — last modified 06/23/2006 at 01:17 PM
- 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.
- Wildlife Indicator - Gray Wolves by andrew joel — last modified 06/29/2006 at 05:20 PM
- The west was wolfless until the mid-1990s, when small populations were re-introduced.
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