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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.

Article by Sightline

Car-less In Seattle

Pedestrian pioneer Alan Durning describes what his family of five is learning by living without four wheels in Cascadia's largest city. Can they survive without the essential currency of the modern American community?

Backgrounder

Backgrounder: Who's Leading on Climate Policy in the Northwest?

A look at how the Northwest's climate strategies stack up by region.

Backgrounder

Backgrounder: New population numbers for Washington State

Washington's population could double in less than fifty years, according to new research from Sightline Institute.

Backgrounder

Analysis: Increases in greenhouse-gas emissions from highway-widening projects (pdf)

Sightline researchers do the math on whether adding lanes adds greenhouse gas emissions--it does.

Fact sheet

PBDEs and PCBs in the Northwest - Regional Data Sheet

Local data for Montana, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon on PBDEs and PCBs in northwesterners.

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Sprawl and Health Connections

Emerging research is discovering that the design and layout of your neighborhood can affect your health. Here's how.

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Sprawl Indicator - Midsize Cities

How Boise, Victoria, Spokane, and Eugene stack up in curbing sprawl.

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Sprawl Indicator - Seattle and Portland

How Seattle and Portland stack up in curbing sprawl.

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Sprawl Statistics for Seven Northwest Cities

How Cascadia's seven largest cities--Vancouver, Victoria, Spokane, Seattle, Eugene, Portland, and Boise--stack up in livability.

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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.

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Wildlife Indicator - Orcas

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

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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.

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Scorecard 2007 Regional Data Supplement (pdf)

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Trouble at Paradise: Urban air pollution travels to Mt. Rainier

The mountain air near the Pacific Northwest’s biggest cities may be worse than the air in those cities—at least in terms of round-the-clock levels of one pollutant, ozone.