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Idaho has lost 61 federal employees, while other Western states also see major reductions in staff

Lack of snowpack going into the winter is putting more drought pressure on Oregon, Idaho, Washington and western Montana.

Study, published Oct. 30 in the journal Global Change Biology, described it as an ‘unprecedented amount of foliage death’

The U.S. Department of Defense quietly changed its timeline for cleaning up toxic forever chemicals contaminating groundwater at Fairchild Airforce Base and Portland's Air National Guard Base, delaying the process by six years without public announcement.

Extreme drought is currently most prevalent in western Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana

The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region Headquarters would be closed and the Pacific Northwest Research Station would be moved to Fort Collins, Colorado