Lummi tribal members use gear for reef netting, a traditional method of fishing.

Follow Route 101 through northwest Washington, and you’re sure to see it — the welcome sign outside the town of Aberdeen. It proudly proclaims "Lumber Capital of the World," but the mothballed mill...

Shipping around Longview could expand beyond logs and other products to include sending coal to China.

The biennial Clipper Round the World Yacht Race puts total novices aboard some of the fastest sailboats on the sea. Two have died this year already.

Ellen Sollod's "Cloud Veil" at 12th Avenue Square Park. Credit: Seattle Parks & Recreation

A section of the Yakima River

North Portland resident Stacey Schroeder stands on the bluff along WIllamette Boulevard overlooking Swan Island and the Daimler Trucks North America plant, as her daughter picks dandelions in the...

Fishing along the Duwamish River, where pollution is a considerable problem.

A warning sign near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

The Green River.

Lummi elders burn a dummy million-dollar check on the Cherry Point beach to make the point they will not be bought off (September 2012).

An August sunrise over the Snoqualmie Valley

Nutrient-rich wastewater makes Puget Sound particularly susceptible to acidification.