Sun, 06/14/2009 - 8:58am to Sat, 08/01/2009 - 9:59pm
Summer volunteers will participate in a wide variety of service projects and adventure tours throughout the country; make new friends, explore the culture, language and beauty of Costa Rica.
A wild, male, juvenile black bear that was captured in an area around Renton by the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife had suffered a dislocated hip and a fractured femur and the Progressive Animals Welfare Society based in Lynnwood (otherwise known as PAWS) was asked to help care for the bear's injuries.
Once common in the Puget Sound region, by 1990, only 150 western pond turtles remained in Washington State, and nearly all of those were in Klickitat and Skamania counties in the Columbia Gorge.