Douglas County isn't the largest population center in Washington State. With ten towns and 33,000 people, it isn't even close. But what this north central county does have that other places don't is one of the last remaining populations of three endangered animal species - the Sharp-Tail Grouse, the Sage Grouse, and the Pygmy Rabbit. ...
Third-generation farmer David Adams has seen Sage Grouse, other birds, and deer on his Douglas County, Washington, Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres. But his main interest in CRP is soil conservation....
In Whitman County, Washington, the rolling wheat fields are the scenic signature of the area known as the Palouse. Each year, national and international visitors marvel at the steep, fertile hills of amber waves of grain. It is a photographer's dream. But those same steep hills pose an erosion control challenge for Whitman County producers. ...
Clark Miller is one of the Conservation Reserve Program (CR)) pioneers in Whitman County, Washington. He enrolled some of his least productive land in CRP the second year of the program. Since then, CRP has transitioned for Clark into 53 acres of contour buffer strips combined with 222 acres of wildlife habitat laid out on the contour....
On a clear day in Adams County, Washington, you can see the 14,410-foot volcano Mt. Rainier 150 miles in the distance. But when strong winds blow, it may be difficult to see even 150 feet. Adams and surrounding counties in the Columbia Basin have finely-textured soils containing volcanic ash deposited over centuries. Soils with fine particles, smaller than 10 microns, are called PM-10...
