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5 stories matching pest
- The Hidden Costs of Invasive Pests
A single discarded fruit box from California brought the destructive San Jose scale to a local orchard, illustrating the need for strict quarantine measures.
- The Unlikely Peace of the Port Townsend Wharf
A cat known for its hunting prowess inexplicably raises an enormous rat alongside her own litter of kittens.
- Engineers Complete Survey for Lake Washington Ship Canal
In 1891, engineers surveyed the path for a ship canal to connect Lake Washington to the Sound, envisioning a future where vessels could cleanse their hulls of barnacles in fresh water and double Seattle's commercial capacity.
- Yakima's Artesian Boom: Turning Desert Into Hop Fields
Attorney Fred Parker told a Tacoma reporter that artesian wells and the big irrigation ditches would reclaim 30,000 acres of desert and draw Sound-country hop growers to Yakima County.
- A Fortune in Strawberries: The Grower Who Says Thurston County Is Sleeping on Its Own Soil
Olympia closed the fruit season with its biggest shipments yet, but veteran orchardman George B. Hartman says the county's trees are thriving on forty years of neglect — and that proper cultivation could out-earn Oregon and California combined.