Courtney Flatt
ReporterCourtney Flatt is a Richland-based multi-media correspondent for Northwest Public Broadcasting and the Northwest News Network focusing on environmental, natural resources and energy issues in the Northwest. She began her journalism career at The Dallas Morning News as a neighbors editor. There, she also wrote articles for the Metro section, where she reported on community issues ranging from water security to the arts. Courtney earned her master’s in convergence journalism at the University of Missouri and developed a love for radio and documentary film. As a producer at KBIA-FM she hosted a weekly business show, reported and produced talk shows on community and international issues. Her work took her from the unemployment lines, to a Methamphetamine bust, to the tornado damage aftermath in Joplin, Mo.
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A couple federal agencies are looking at several ideas to bring grizzly bears to Washington’s North Cascades. The feds are hoping to hear from you. -
President Biden today directed federal agencies to restore healthy and abundant wild salmon populations to the Columbia River Basin. The presidential memorandum says tribal treaties need to be honored.
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Fish counters are seeing thousands of lamprey going past Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. But tribal biologists say these toothy, eel-like fish have a long way to go before they’re in the clear.
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A measure that could have dissolved a small library district in southeastern Washington is no longer heading to a vote.
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In a historic agreement, the federal government announced Thursday it will fund tribal efforts to bring salmon back to the Upper Columbia River. Two massive dams have blocked salmon from that part of the river for close to a century.
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Two petitions to allow a spring black bear hunt next year – are denied by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission.
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A measure to dissolve a small library district in southeastern Washington is blocked – for now – from the November ballot.
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High-tech fire lookouts are now helping spot wildfires in Washington. This fire season, the state has cameras geared up with artificial intelligence. And so far, we’re told it’s working.
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Northwest researchers have discovered that turtle shells, of all things, can help track radioactive doses through time – like walking tree rings. Scientists say these heroes in a half shell could help with environmental monitoring at nuclear waste and fallout sites around the world.
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Washington’s Western gray squirrels are in trouble. So much so that state officials are considering uplisting the squirrels from threatened to endangered.
