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Construction Equipment Guide May 16, 2016 Broadway Avenue is billed as the gateway into Boise, and this gateway is receiving a makeover with the construction of a new Broadway Bridge that is slated to open later this fall. Since fall 2012, the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) has shepherded this $20.2 million-dollar project through its design…
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U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station Science Findings July 2016 Much of the water supply in the Pacific Northwest originates in national forests. It sustains the region’s aquatic ecosystems, agriculture, hydroelectric power, and community water supplies. Understanding how climate change will affect water supply is one of the most pressing issues of our time.…
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TimberWest May/June 2016 After 35 years, R.L. Smith Logging has seen it all. The next challenge will be passing on the torch. Read more…
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Construction Equipment Guide June 10, 2016 Weyerhaeuser will become downtown Seattle’s newest tenant when the company moves into its brand-new corporate headquarters in the coming months. This eight-story building is billed by Urban Visions, the Seattle-based real estate development firm responsible for the project, as “a keystone project for Pioneer Square.” Pioneer Square is a…
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TimberWest March/April 2016 Preston Drew says he “just slid into the industry.” Cutting firewood in high school turned into a career path that he hasn’t been able to shake. Forty years later, even after experiencing all the ups and downs in the industry and reinventing himself so many times to keep working, Drew does not…
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Construction Equipment Guide April 13, 2016 The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is currently improving the traffic flow for a number of Western Washington residents. Yet these residents don’t use the roadways; instead they travel in the streams flowing beneath the state’s roadways and bridges. Just as improperly designed roadways result in backups or…
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Acres U.S.A. March 2016 Washington couple trades their tractor for draft horses and finds a new appreciation for an old way of farming. Read more…
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U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station Science Findings March 2016 Trees bursting forth with new leaves signal the arrival of spring. Budburst for most temperate tree species occurs after a tree has been exposed to a sufficient number of chilling and forcing hours over the winter. Waiting until these chilling and forcing hours have…
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Construction Equipment Guide February 21, 2016 Beginning this spring, the northern stretch of Idaho 55 between McCall and New Meadows will have another round of road closures and reduced speed zones as work resumes on the Goose Creek Grade project. With road building and blasting on only one curve remaining, construction is expected to be…
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Construction Equipment Guide February 5, 2016 Since its construction in 1957, the Vashon Island Ferry Terminal is the critical link that connects the communities on Puget Sound’s western shore to the Seattle mainland — an average of 30 sailings per day depart to West Seattle’s Fauntleroy dock. With there being an estimated 50 percent chance…
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Writings by Andrea Watts 