The answer is pretty simple: Keep plants growing in it. Plants that germinate in the late summer, sending their roots deep into the soil, will provide a place for water to go. This also provides for ...

A skier in the backcountry area of Mount Baker and Snoqualmie National Park died after falling head-first into deep snow and ...

The Whatcom County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan does include a section on wildland fire and the county adopted a wildland fire-specific action plan in November 2023. But Whatcom County is still ...

What better way to get people together than to talk about a book, ask organizers of Whatcom READS. For 17 years, the program has connected people across the county for a profound — and fun — ...

The city of Bellingham, Wash., is set to acquire forest land near Lake Whatcom with the intention of protecting the city’s drinking water source. The city is purchasing the 754 acres property for ...

Bellingham’s latest effort to preserve land from logging and development in the Lake Whatcom watershed is its largest purchase since the program started more than 20 years ago, according to city ...

Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to this factsheet, the visualization includes nearly six billion measurements.

Drug overdoses and overdose deaths appear to have dropped sharply across Whatcom County over the past year, as programs aimed at prevention, intervention, treatment and follow-up care are showing ...