Army helicopters could be used for the vegetation study but would scare away birds. portions of shrub-steppe habitat in Washington state. The Hanford Reservation is the other. "It's a bit ironic ...

Called Columbia River Processing, the unmarked, windowless plant is actually a Tillamook factory, recognizable for its stainless-steel milk silos and double-tanker Milky Way trucks parked outside.

A state environmental review for the facility found the city’s site contained several active burrows and two breeding pairs on the 440 acres of prime shrub steppe and grassland habitat.