Photo of the day
Outside a laboratory, a toy wagon is used to carry radioactive material at Hanford Atomic Energy plant in 1955. Photo by Nat Farbman, from the amazing LIFE/Google archive.
Down To Earth archive for Dec. 11, 2008
THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 2008
Wastewater treatment plant update: Hey, Spokane Valley, we need your money too!
This is sort of funny but par for the course. As Spokane County proceeds with a proposed $145 million wastewater treatment plant, commissioners had an idea for funding problems: The City of Spokane Valley, whose residents would actually represent three-fourths of the facility's customers, could…
Cheers for International Mountain Day
Photo of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan - one of DTE's favorite mountains *photo from Faisal.Saeed @ Flickr Today is International Mountain Day , a distinguished day first recognized by the UN General Assembly in 2003. For today, DTE is looking back on all of our…
Hunting at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. Yep.
Does “wildlife refuge” invoke the sound of gunshots? Well, officials at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge near Cheney have authorized hunting for the first time since it was established in 1937. Apparently, the area has reached its carrying capacity for large elk herds which are…
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