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  March 2025

How Water Use Affects Nooksack Streamflows

by Eric Hirst Editor’s Note: a longer, more detailed version of this article is available at: https://whatcomwatch.org/wpww2/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Effects-of-Human-Water-Use-on-Nooksack-Streamflows.pdf Climate change is dramatically affecting seasonal flows of water throughout the Nooksack River watershed, with substantial declines in summer flows. These declines are … Continue reading

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  December 2024

Nooksack Watershed Summer Water Temperature Trends

by Eric Hirst Over the past several years, I’ve written articles that document declines in summer streamflow throughout the Nooksack River basin. (1) This paper expands these prior analyses with an examination of water temperatures. I focus on summer (July, … Continue reading

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