Nick Fisher rides his horse, Lady Liberty as Oregon standoff supporters celebrate outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Portland, Ore.

Loading logs onto the line at a mill in Glendale, Oregon.

A cougar at Northwest Trek

People who eat fish from Washington state waters will be protected by a combination of new federal and state pollution rules.

An uncovered coal train owned by BNSF.

A still image from Perpetual Ocean, a visualization showing ocean surface currents around the world produced using a high-resolution model of the global ocean and sea-ice.

Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River.

A rendering of what the Vancouver Energy Project would look like at the Port of Vancouver. The facility could move 360,000 barrels of crude oil from rail to ship every day.

Empty coal cars flank Bakken Oil tankers at the Port of Everett.

Diablo Lake, a reservoir in in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state

The first invasive European green crab that was found in Puget Sound was trapped on San Juan Island.