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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (873718)	7/19/2015 12:30:55 PM
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Experts: No end in sight for Washington's historic drought By Kara Kostanich OLYMPIA, Wash. -- State officials at the Department of Ecology say there seems to be no end in sight for our historic drought. The dry conditions are causing a lot of problems across the state. "As of today, 98.6 percent of our state is in severe drought," said Maira Bellon, the director at the Washington State Department of Ecology. The drought is projected to impact all 39 counties in our state before summer's end. In all, 747 wildfires have burned 74,000 acres across Washington so far this year. That's twice as much charred land as this time last year. "It is unlike a drought we've seen before in the state of Washington," said Bellon. For the first time ever, hundreds of irrigators from across Eastern and Western Washington have been ordered to turn off their diversions and stop watering crops all together. State officials say fruit and vegetable crops are smaller and are getting scorched by the sun. "The heat in and of itself, the lack of precipitation and the overall dry climate we are having right now is affecting our agricultural economy in a really big way," said Bellon. On Saturday, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will enforce fishing restrictions on more than 30 rivers all because of the drought. "What we see with low stream flow is strandings of steelhead and salmon as they're trying to migrate up to spawn or migrate down to get out to the ocean," said Joe Stohr, the deputy director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. With river flows at records lows and temperatures in some rivers too high - fishing for many will have to wait until our rain returns. "No one wants to see the resource diminished as a result of drought," said Stohr. Some restrictions include complete closures on some rivers and reduced hours on others. A full list of impacted rivers is available here. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/State-No-end-in-sight-for-historic-drought-316985771.html