Washington - Research & Publications

10/31/2006
Video

No on Washington's I-933: What the Neighbors Could Do

A video showing how Washington's I-933 will pave the way for irresponsible development, huge costs to taxpayers, and an end to many commonsense protections

10/12/2006
Report

Property Wrongs: Lessons from Oregon

Sightline's 2006 analysis of property rights initiatives in western states includes a report on lessons from Oregon's Measure 37.

07/18/2006
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?

05/07/2006
Fact sheet

Sprawl and Health Connections

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

03/07/2006
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.

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 - 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.

06/30/2005
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.

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.

08/07/2004
Fact sheet

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.

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.

02/24/2004
Report

Flame Retardants in Puget Sound Residents

A study of flame retardants in women in Puget Sound confirms that PBDEs have been rapidly building up in people and the environment, and suggest that all northwesterners are contaminated with PBDEs.

07/25/2002
Report

Sprawl and Smart Growth in Greater Seattle-Tacoma

An examination of metropolitan growth in greater Seattle-Tacoma--including King County and Pierce County--during the 1990s.

05/09/2002
Report

Sprawl and Smart Growth in Metropolitan Portland

An analysis of how greater Portland grew during the 1990s, and why the Oregon counties sprawled less than Clark County, Washington.