Land Use Archives

The Elwha River: Roaring back to life

February 14th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

In a special report for The Seattle Times, reporter Lynda V. Mapes tells the story of the resurgence of the Elwha River ecosystem, which is benefiting hugely from the largest dam removal project in human history, completed two years ago.

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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy arrested by FBI in Portland; last four militant holdouts at Malheur to surrender tomorrow

February 10th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, National Defense, Our Environment, Public Planning

The idiotic, dangerous right wing insurrection against the people and government of the United States in rural Oregon appears to be almost over. The Oregonian

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President Barack Obama briefed on Washington wildfires, White House says

August 20th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning

President Barack Obama’s staff have briefed him on the dangerous wildfires burning throughout the western United States, including in Washington, the White House says. From

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California drought tests history of endless growth

April 4th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Mother Nature didn’t intend for forty million people to live here… This is literally a culture that since the 1880s has progressively invented, invented and

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Tides wipe out two homes on Washaway Beach

December 10th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

Tides have wiped out two more homes on Washaway Beach, according to a report by KING5’s Drew Mikkelsen. A blogger who has been chronicling the

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For-profit tech companies are displacing nonprofits in San Francisco

November 13th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

For-profit tech companies are displacing nonprofits in San Francisco “Soaring rents drove 2,000 of San Francisco’s 8,000 nonprofits out of town or out of existence

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Ann Neumann: A pipeline threatens our family land

July 13th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Fracking, I once thought, was something that happened to other people, not mine. Hydraulic fracturing may be confined to the shale regions of the country,

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Oso neighborhood never should have been built

June 8th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning

Oso neighborhood never should have been built The Seattle Times has an in-depth article today about the neighborhood that was destroyed in the Oso mudslide

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Risk of massive slide ‘unforeseen’? Warnings go back decades

March 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning

Risk of massive slide ‘unforeseen’? Warnings go back decades The Seattle Times connects with geologists who have long been concerned with the a catastrophic failure

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