Pacific Power filed a settlement agreement last week with nthe Public Utility Commission of Oregon in support of its napplication for an 8.4% rate hike to increase annual revenue nby $84.6 million to offset capital costs. nThe utility filed a request the week before seeking a 5.9% nrate ...
A negative phase of the PDO has been linked to decadal reductions in the rate of global mean surface temperature increase, as well as to the widening of the Northern Hemisphere tropical belt since 1979. In both cases there is evidence for an anthropogenic aerosol control (Allen et al. 2014)...
3.3. South of Washington State and Oregon Figure 3 shows that VLM decreases towards the south of Washington State (WA), reaching almost zero at the top and central parts of Oregon (Coos Bay). The VLM estimates are below 1 mm/yr (at P396 0.8 ± 0.2 mm/yr (BIC_tp–PANGA), −0.2...
and caused significant infrastructural damage in southern Washington and northern Oregon. Volcano-ice hazards can cause unforeseen impacts but they can also be predicted, as the following Colombia case study shows, through scientific research and monitoring of volcanic and glacier activity. Scientific moni...
Parks in western Washington and northwestern Oregon became part of the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN). Scientists keep their finger on the pulse of NCCN parks through monitoring ecological "vital signs." These characteristics, including wildlife populations, water quality, glaciers, forests, ...
Rather than slow down the factories or increase the workforce, internal company memos show that executives focused on changing employees’ “hearts and minds” and getting them to more tightly embrace the teachings of MBM.At a Georgia-Pacific warehouse complex in Portland, Oregon, Koch boosted ...
Pear psylla,Cacopsylla pyricola(Foerster) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), is one of the most important insect pests of pears (Pyrussp. (Rosaceae)) in Washington, Oregon and other pear-growing states in the USA. If not properly managed, pear psylla can rapidly build up and damage both fruits and ...
Glacier retreat poses risks and benefits for species of cultural and economic importance. One example is Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), supporting subsistence harvests, and commercial and recreational fisheries worth billions of dollars annually. Al
The Desert,the Sierra,Northern California,Oregon,Washington Demographics First, let’s look at information from the Pacific Crest Trail Class of 2022 that isn’t going to help anyone plan a thru-hike, but that’s interesting nonetheless. I delve deeper into the demographics of each year’s cla...
You can almost spit across the river from Niagara Falls New York to Niagara Falls Ontario. There are roughly the same amount of people in the blotch of suburbs and cities on the western end of Lake Ontario as there are in all of Washington and Oregon. Closer together. With lots of places...