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from Daily Kos
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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)
Saturday afternoon Fire Update
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Editorial: Congress’ fiscal game of chicken hurts us all
Ask Dr. K: Monitor dosage of hormone
Calif dairies going broke due to feed, milk prices
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Contractor fined for ruining bird habitat
Hanford Nuclear Reservation contractor Battelle Memorial Institute is paying the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation almost $100,000 for destroying migratory bird habitat.
Battelle entered into an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for causing the destruction of more than 400 bank swallow nests and more than 3,000 bank swallow eggs during the 2010 nesting season, the office announced Friday in a news release.
In 2007, Battelle stockpiled topsoil at a construction site near the Hanford site and in 2009 removed some of the soil, creating a vertical face favored as a habitat by bank swallows. Topsoil was again removed in 2010, resulting in the destruction of the bank swallow habitat in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Battelle will pay $96,800 to the foundation for preservation and restoration of shrub-steppe habitats in Washington’s mid-Columbia region, the release said.
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