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    Clayton Franke / The Daily World
Issues with wetland delineation have arisen at this housing development site in Westport. The city hopes an independent study will provide clarity and consistency for permitting.
    Westport wants fresh eyes on wetlands
    By Clayton Franke • May 17, 2024 4:28 pm

    City commissions study to characterize wetlands throughout Westport

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    Clayton Franke / The Daily World
Cascade Natural Gas Corporation’s pipeline expansion project, set for this summer, will cross the Wishkah River 10 feet below the riverbed and land at 2852 Wishkah Road.
    Natural gas company to bury small pipeline under...
    By Clayton Franke • May 13, 2024 8:00 am

    1.7-mile addition will reinforce capacity in Aberdeen; construction starts late summer

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    Michael Wagar / The Daily World
A steady stream of people inspected a dead gray whale beached on the Pacific Ocean Wednesday afternoon, as a dog sniffs away. You can see the Quinault casino at the top far right.
    Dead gray whale beached near Ocean City
    By Clayton Franke • April 12, 2024 8:05 am

    First of 2024; feds recently declared end to four-year mortality event after strandings dropped

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    Courtesy of Brady Dier
Mark Smalley, an engineer for Rayonier, leads a field trip April 5 as part of the Washington State Society of American Foresters’ annual meeting, which took place at Grays Harbor College.
    Forestry leaders talk 50 years of forest practices
    By Clayton Franke • April 9, 2024 1:30 am

    1974 Forest Practices Act laid foundation for logging rules in Washington’s forests

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    Clayton Franke / The Daily World
Kyle Deerkop, farm operations manager with Pacific Shellfish, crosses a creek hauling pounds of marine debris collected from a beach on the Quinault Indian Reservation.
    Truckloads of trash hoisted from Quinault beaches
    By Clayton Franke • April 2, 2024 8:27 am

    Groups look to tackle marine debris on remote areas of reservation

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    Kimberly Johnson / Surfrider Grays Harbor
Local chapter chair Bruce Rittenhouse and state coordinator Liz Schotman, center, converse with an attendee at a launch party for the Surfrider Foundation’s new Grays Harbor chapter at the Oyhut Bay Grill in Ocean Shores on Feb. 27.
    Ocean Shores residents form local Surfrider Foundation chapter
    By Clayton Franke • March 5, 2024 2:26 pm

    Grays Harbor is the sixth location for group focused on plastics pollution and coastal protections

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    Clayton Franke / The Daily World
Bob Williamson of Brumfield Construction operates a bulldozer Thursday morning on the southern shoreline of Ocean Shores, where the company is building a large sand berm intended to stop waves from eroding public infrastructure this winter.
    Sacrificial sand: Berm to hold off waves in...
    By Clayton Franke • December 8, 2023 5:00 am

    City starts work on emergency erosion solution to protect infrastructure on southern shoreline

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    Clayton Franke / The Daily World
Houses south of Marine View Drive on the southern end of the Ocean Shores peninsula are on the front lines for erosion washing away roughly 60 feet of shoreline each year.
    Shoreline at full bore: Ocean Shores embarks on...
    By Clayton Franke • November 1, 2023 1:30 am

    Study shows erosion will lead to loss of homes, infrastructure without buffer

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    Clayton Franke / The Daily World
From left: Griffin Steele and Mathew Winter, Washington Conservation Corps crew members, work near a Scotch broom burn pile on Wednesday, Oct. 18. at the city of Ocean Shores public works yard.
    Climate solutions collide at Shores Scotch broom site
    By Clayton Franke • October 25, 2023 1:30 am

    Collaborative effort hopes to control invasive weed by burning it into useful byproduct

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    Michael Wagar / The Daily World
The Hungry Whale Grocery store and gas station sit on the west corner of North Montesano Street and Wilson Avenue in Westport, property owned by the Port of Grays Harbor. Excavators have begun to dig test holes into soil that was contaminated by a gasoline leak 40 years ago, and will soon demolish the gas station and excavate the site.
    Port to excavate toxic gas station site in...
    By Clayton Franke • June 29, 2023 5:00 pm

    $2.4M cleanup project will demolish store and fueling station, scoop up 40-year-old gas spill

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