Susan Hess

Susan Hess

About Valerie Brown

Valerie Brown, lives near Portland, Oregon. She specializes in science and environment writing, particularly environmental health and climate change, including the health effects of chemical and radiation exposures, carbon sequestration, and climate change’s effects on forests and oceans.
Jan 9, 2020

Steigerwald Restoration: Reconnecting a floodplain to the Columbia

2020-09-30T18:58:22-07:00Jan 9 2020|Categories: Conservation, Features, Most Popular Articles, Natural Resources, Public Lands, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |3 Comments

Managed as part of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Complex since 1987, the Steigerwald Refuge sits right at the western boundary of the Columbia River Gorge. And this year, it will undergo a major transformation: being reconnected to the river...

Dec 12, 2019

Carbon Farming: Can agriculture help save us from climate change?

2019-12-12T09:30:59-08:00Dec 12 2019|Categories: Agriculture, Climate Change, Features|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |2 Comments

Intensive agricultural practices — especially plowing — have depleted soil carbon and released major amounts of methane and nitrous oxide, two potent greenhouse gases. But an existing approach known as regenerative agriculture helps to reverse the gradient...

Oct 17, 2019

River Gravel Gives up Human Secrets

2020-04-07T12:36:30-07:00Oct 17 2019|Categories: Features, Natural Resources|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

“There’s probably a whole series of encampments or occupation areas from the mouth of the Columbia River all the way up” to the Salmon River that are impossible to locate, says OSU professor Loren G. Davis...

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