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An easy hike through Oaks Bottom, Portlands urban wildlife refuge
2016-04-15 01:50:45| PortlandOnline
Jamie Hale in The Oregonian, April 14, 2016
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Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge - April 23 (Printable flyer)
2016-03-15 01:13:05| PortlandOnline
Help us spread the word! Print some out and hang them up at your favorite community board! PDF Document, 145kbCategory: Explore Your Natural Areas!
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Finding Refuge for Salmon, Cold Water Preferred
2015-12-11 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When Lewis and Clark first encountered the Columbia River in 1805, they wrote about nearby streams so thick with salmon that you could all but walk across on their backs. Last summer, those streams looked very different. As a torrid heat wave settled over the Pacific Northwest, the salmon heading up the Columbia River from the ocean in their ancient reproduction ritual started dying en masse, cooked in place by freakishly hot water that killed them or made them vulnerable to predators. Sockeye died...
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Arkansas a refuge from rising seas in Marshall Islands
2015-11-26 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Valentino Keimbar hides from the intense heat in the shade of a breadfruit tree, waiting for his basketball game to begin. It was supposed to start a couple of hours ago, maybe three, but time matters little here on the Marshall Islands. Keimbar would love to stay on this tiny string of atolls in the vast Pacific Ocean, which he considers a precious gift from his ancestors. But he fears hotter weather and rising seas may soon force everyone to go, and that many will choose an unlikely place 6,000...
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Bikini islanders seek US refuge as sea levels threaten homes
2015-10-27 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: About 1,000 Bikini islanders have applied to relocate to the United States as rising seas threaten their adopted home. The residents were moved from their Pacific atoll as result of atomic bomb tests in the 1940s. But their new home, on another of the Marshall Islands, is struggling against huge tides and increasing storms. The islanders have now asked Washington to change the terms of a trust fund to allow them settle in the US. In 1946 several hundred islanders were moved from Bikini...
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