Through winter morning mist, thick fern underbrush and spongy ground, Nooksack Indian Tribe water resources program staffers Chris Trinies and Rich Auguston navigate steep forested slopes to reach a few dispersed trees that look, from a distance, like they have backpacks hugging their trunks. The packs are storage boxes, holding batteries that power two monitoring devices at each tree. Trinies, a hydrologist, and Auguston, a water resources tech…
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