The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

The proviso’s funds are more focused on the latter with $1.5 million going toward shrub steppe and rangeland cooperative fencing. “The bottom line is you have to have the habitat,” Kehne said.

Eli Francovich’s article on the shrub-steppe habitat last week ("Eastern desert thrives with hidden diversity," Feb. 14) was excellent. The beauty and diversity there is often overlooked.

Shrub-steppe once covered about 10 million acres in Eastern Washington, he said. About 60 percent has been lost because the land was converted for other uses, and officials are trying to preserve ...

Where to look: Big expanses of shrub-steppe are its favored haunts. Locally, the Yakima Training Center is a prime area as are foothills of the Cascade Range below the forest belt.

The annual Get Intimate with the Shrub-Steppe & Yakima River Canyon Bird Fest returns as a full in-person experience this year. Event organizers announced this week the event, now in its 23rd year ...

Miller: What is shrub-steppe? Livingston: Shrub-steppe is a term we use for a sagebrush-dominated landscape that also has an understory of grasses. Steppe is the Russian term for grassland.

Bird watchers, horseback riders and hikers at W.E. Johnson Park were shocked in early May to discover 10 acres of shrub steppe habitat — sagebrush — destroyed in Richland’s least developed park.

“Solar development on shrub-steppe will further degrade and fragment increasingly rare habitat for at-risk species,” the department states in a request to Inslee’s budget office.

Feb. 14—OLYMPIA — Washington's nickname, "the Evergreen State," doesn't only apply to the green of the pine trees but also applies to the green of the shrub-steppe that covers most of Eastern ...