Backgrounders

Materials to provide context, establish facts, and aid understanding.

How to measure a tree

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Measuring height, diameter, and crown spread of a big tree can present many challenges. Here’s a few tips and tricks to help you out.

A killer future

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By restoring Chinook salmon, reducing underwater noise, and stopping pollution there is still time to protect these iconic animals for generations to come.

Honey, I shrunk the Chinook

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Chinook salmon are getting smaller, and one explanation is uncomfortably familiar.

What is a watershed?

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How can we use the movement of water through the landscape to inform our understanding of water quality?

Beaver-based restoration

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In a time when catastrophic conflagrations are becoming a new normal, an unlikely character is being welcomed back onto the landscape after generations of trapping and removal.