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July 6, 2004	Spokane Spokesman-Review	Collection of hair from bears goes well	http://www.spokesmanreview.com/idaho/story.asp?ID=14222	Associated Press	GREAT FALLS - A federal grizzly bear study that has research teams plucking bear hair from barbed wire is advancing smoothly in its second year, the U.S. Geological Survey says.	2004
July 7, 2004	Portland Oregonian	Small earthquakes, 50 recently, persist near Lakeview	http://www.oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/science/108920277146160.xml	RICHARD L. HILL	Earthquakes are continuing to rumble beneath the Lakeview area in south-central Oregon near the California border. A magnitude 3.2 quake occurred at 9:42 p.m. Sunday, and a magnitude 2.6 quake at 2:01 a.m. Tuesday.	2004
July 12, 2004	Corvallis Gazette-Times	Earthquakes rattle western Oregon	http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/07/12/news/top_story/top_story.txt	By THERESA HOGUE	Two earthquakes centered about 30 miles off the Oregon Coast near Yachats were felt in Philomath and Corvallis this morning. The first was a magnitude 2.7 at 9:41 a.m., followed by a 4.9 earthquake at 9:45 a.m.	2004
July 13, 2004	Portland Oregonian	Offshore earthquakes rattle coast	http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1089719826144960.xml	RICHARD L. HILL	Beachgoers received a short, scary surprise Monday morning when two offshore earthquakes rattled the central Oregon coast. 	2004
July 13, 2004	Tri-City Herald	Digging for answers about burrowing owls	http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/5295102p-5232514c.html	By Anna King	Mark Southern often lies down on his stomach in the dirt alongside roads. 	2004
July 14, 2004	Corvallis Gazette-Times	Agency Web site busied with coastal quake reports	http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/07/14/news/community/wedloc03.txt	By EMILY STUTZMAN	The U.S. Geological Survey Web site registered more than 560 reports from people throughout Western Oregon who reported feeling Monday's offshore earthquakes.	2004
July 15, 2004	Seattle Times	Quake risk ignored, say critics of Brightwater plan	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001979985_brightwater15m.html	By Christopher Schwarzen	A former geology professor and earthquake expert says King County failed to determine the danger of a potential fault before choosing a Snohomish County site for a planned sewage-treatment plant. 	2004
July 18, 2004	Bend (Oreg.) Bulletin	Oregon water district buys forest land to expand	http://www.bendbulletin.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=13958	By Lily Raff	The Oregon Water Wonderland Unit II sanitary district took a major step toward realizing plans for a $7 million expansion when it recently finalized the purchase of 480 acres of U.S. Forest Service land. 	2004
July 21, 2004	Seattle Times	Vashon Island scientist's lifelong love affair with glaciers	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001984553_post21m.html	By Nancy Bartley	VASHON ISLAND - Austin Post first felt the pull of glaciers as a young boy thinning apples beneath the blazing sun on his father's orchard at Lake Chelan. 	2004
July 25, 2004	Seattle Times	Survey assesses elusive Olympic Mountain goats	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001988032_goats25m.html	By Jim Downing	OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK - It was the 1920s when a few pairs of snow-white mountain goats were brought to the Olympic Peninsula for the pleasure of hunters. 	2004
July 26, 2004	Corvallis Gazette-Times	Scientists dig for answers about owls	http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/07/26/news/the_west/wst02.txt	By ANNA KING	KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Mark Southern often lies down on his stomach in the dirt alongside roads.	2004
July 27, 2004	Spokane Spokesman-Review	State restricts water from Little Spokane River	http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=17738	Karen Dorn Steele	Surging growth in Spokane's northern suburbs and the hot July weather have once again forced state regulators to send registered letters to 136 property owners about dwindling water in the scenic Little Spokane River watershed.	2004
July 28, 2004	Skagit Valley Herald	Searching for the Skagit River's 'n'	http://www.skagitvalleyherald.com/articles/2004/07/28/news/news01.txt	By JAMES GELUSO	CONCRETE - A peculiar blend of treasure hunt and math problem has had government crews searching this week for clues along the banks of the Skagit River, even rappelling down a rocky cliff face.	2004
July 29, 2004	Seattle Post-Intelligencer	Eruption possible as Alaska volcano stirs	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/184051_volcano29.html	THE ASSOCIATED PRESS	ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mount Spurr is showing some life these days, 12 years after the volcano last erupted.	2004
August 3, 2004	Seattle Post-Intelligencer	Open house will let the public see what fishery researchers do	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/184586_dbriefs03.html	Staff	The U.S. Geological Survey's Western Fisheries Research Center in Seattle will be open to the public Saturday, Aug. 14, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. 	2004
August 3, 2004	Seattle Times	Sea otters' revival in state waters brings new concerns	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001995325_otters03m.html	y Sandi Doughton	CAPE ALAVA, Clallam County - It's a three-mile hike to this rugged headland on the Washington coast, and Mark Stafford starts scanning for sea otters as soon as he emerges from the rainforest to an ocean overlook.	2004
August 4, 2004	Seattle Post-Intelligencer	High mercury risk in fish raises alarm	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/184782_fish04.html	By LISA STIFFLER	Mercury is turning up in fish in Washington state's remote lakes and reservoirs at levels that could be harmful to women and children, and more than half the fish tested nationwide also are contaminated, according to a study by an environmental coalition.	2004
August 5, 2004	Corvallis Gazette-Times	Alaska volcano stirs after 12 years of quiet	http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/08/05/news/the_west/thuwst03.txt	By MATT VOLZ, Associated Press writer	ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The last time Mount Spurr erupted, it covered Anchorage in a cloud of ash that drove residents indoors, shut down the airports and left the city with volcanic soot a quarter of an inch thick. The ash spewed 50,000 feet in the air and drifted on air currents as far away as Greenland.	2004
August 5, 2004	Portland Oregonian	Complexity 'humbles' environmental chiefs	http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/109170693847151.xml	RICHARD L. HILL	Top federal officials in Portland Wednesday said science is playing an increasingly key role in decisions about the management of about forests, oceans, watersheds and other vital ecosystems -- but that science alone can not provide foolproof solutions to complex environmental problems. 	2004
August 6, 2004	Seattle Times	Elwha dam removal gets final go-ahead	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001998230_elwha06m.html	By Jim Downing	PORT ANGELES - After years of negotiations, the biggest dam-removal project in history is about to begin, promising to restore one of Washington's legendary salmon rivers.	2004
August 9, 2004	Seattle Times	Mount St. Helens is an active laboratory for scientists	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002000275_volcanoscience09.html	By BRIAN MITTGE and JENNIFER LATSON, The (Centralia) Chronicle	WINDY RIDGE, Skamania County - The pumice-strewn crater of an active volcano is the last place one might expect to see a toad, but one hopped into scientific view on a research excursion at Mount St. Helens.	2004
August 11, 2004	Seattle Times	Agency helping fight invaders from the sea 	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002002195_usgs11m.html	By Ian Ith	With a push of a laboratory button, Rusty Rodriguez sets in motion a shiny robotic arm, which silently dabs samples from a dish onto a microscope slide, possibly the world's most complicated and expensive eyedropper. 	2004