Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences Publications
2025
- Changes in Pesticide Use in Washington Sweet Cherries [PDF 1.5 MB]
- 2023 Technical Report: Ambient Monitoring for Pesticides in Washington State Surface Water [PDF 4.1 MB]
- AGR2-2504-027 - Vacant Lands Analysis Report
2024
- 2021 Technical Report: Ambient Monitoring for Pesticides in Washington State Surface Water [PDF 7.6 MB]
- 2022 Technical Report: Ambient Monitoring for Pesticides in Washington State Surface Water [7.38 MB]
- Pesticide Detections in Municipal Wells, 2021-2022 [PDF 0.3 MB]
- 2022 Surface Water Monitoring Watershed Fact Sheets
Ahtanum Creek [PDF 2.72 MB]
Brender Creek [PDF 2.3 MB]
Burnt Bridge Creek [PDF 2.7 MB]
Dry Creek [PDF 3.1]
Indian Slough [PDF 2.2 MB]
Juanita Creek [PDF 2.3 MB]
Kamiache Creek [2.79 MB]
Lower Bertrand Creek [PDF 2.9 MB]
Lower Big Ditch [PDF 1.9 MB]
Lower Crab Creek [PDF 3.1 MB]Marion Drain [PDF 2.5 MB]
Mission Creek [PDF 2.8 MB]
Stemilt Creek [PDF 2.6 MB]
Snipes Creek [PDF 2.8 MB]
Sulphur Creek [PDF 2.6 MB]
Touchet River [PDF 3.3 MB]
Upper Bertrand Creek [PDF 3.2 MB]
Upper Big Ditch [PDF 2.3 MB] - Pesticide Stewardship Program Brochure [PDF 3 MB]
2023
- 2021 Surface Water Monitoring Watershed Fact Sheets
Ahtanum Creek [PDF 2.6 MB]
Brender Creek [PDF 3.7 MB]
Burnt Bridge Creek [PDF 1.9 MB]
Dry Creek [PDF 7.9]
Indian Slough [PDF 1.8 MB]
Juanita Creek [PDF 1.6 MB]
Kamiache Creek [PDF 2.5 MB]
Lower Bertrand Creek [PDF 2.2 MB]
Lower Big Ditch [PDF 1.6 MB]Marion Drain [PDF 2.1 MB]
Mission Creek [PDF 1.8 MB]
Stemilt Creek [PDF 2.2 MB]
Snipes Creek [PDF 2.2 MB]
Sulphur Creek [PDF 2.1 MB]
Thorn Creek [PDF 2.7 MB]
Touchet River [PDF 9.3 MB]
Upper Bertrand Creek [PDF 2.2 MB]
Upper Big Ditch [PDF 1.8 MB] - Report: Estimating Economic Impacts of Drought on Proratable Irrigation Districts in the Yakima Basin [PDF 3.2 MB]
- Infographic - Yakima Basin Proratable Irrigation [PDF 3.4 MB]
- A Farmer's Guide to Soil Sampling [PDF 605 KB]
- Soil Management in Washington's Dryland Wheat: WSDA Survey Results [PDF 5.6 MB]
- Washington Soil Health Initiative Overview: 2023 Updates
- Trifold Brochure [PDF 3.5 MB]
- Vertical Factsheet [PDF 2 MB]
2022
- Pesticide Detections in Municipal Wells, 2019-2020 [PDF 0.3 MB]
- 2020 Surface Water Monitoring Watershed Fact Sheets
- 2020 Technical Report: Ambient Monitoring for Pesticides in Washington State Surface Water [PDF 16.9 MB]
- Legislative District Agricultural Land Use Maps
- Congressional District Agricultural Land Use Maps
- Fact Sheet: Grant County Groundwater Sampling 2021 [PDF 1 MB]
- Toma de muestras de agua subterránea del condado de Grant en 2021 [PDF 1 MB]
2021
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- Pesticide Groundwater Sampling in the Sumas-Blaine Surficial Aquifer [PDF 2.0 MB]
- 2019 Surface Water Monitoring Watershed Fact Sheets
Brender Creek [PDF 3.3 MB]
Burnt Bridge Creek [PDF 4.1 MB]
Indian Slough [PDF 3 MB]
Lower Bertrand Creek [PDF 3.9 MB]
Lower Big Ditch [PDF 2.8 MB]
Lower Crab Creek [PDF 4.8 MB]
Marion Drain [PDF 2.5 MB]
Mission Creek [PDF 2.5 MB]Naneum Creek [PDF 3.1 MB]
Stemilt Creek [PDF 3.5 MB]
Snipes Creek [PDF 2.4 MB]
Sulphur Creek [PDF 3.2 MB]
Touchet River [PDF 3.8 MB]
Upper Bertrand Creek [PDF 3.8 MB]
Upper Big Ditch [PDF 2.2 MB]
Woodland Creek [PDF 6.4 MB]
2020
- Glyphosate: Ecological Fate and Effects and Human Health Summary [PDF 0.9 MB]
- Fact Sheet: Pesticide Application and Water Quality [PDF 4.6 MB]
- Key Components and Contrasts in the Nitrogen Budget Across a U.S.-Canadian Transboundary Watershed
- Fact Sheet: Understanding Pesticide Leaching Potential and Protecting Groundwater [PDF 0.5 MB]
- 2018 Technical Report: Ambient Monitoring for Pesticides in Washington State Surface Water [PDF 3.9 MB]
- Fact Sheet: Understanding Pesticide Product Labels [PDF 2.0 MB]
- 2017 Technical Report: Ambient Monitoring for Pesticides in Washington State Surface Water [PDF 3.8 MB]
2019
- Natural Resources Assessment Section Fact Sheet [PDF 0.3 MB]
- 2018 Surface Water Monitoring Watershed Fact Sheets
Brender Creek [PDF 2.2 MB]
Burnt Bridge Creek [PDF 2.1 MB]
Indian Slough [PDF 2.1 MB]
Lower Bertrand Creek [PDF 2.8 MB]
Lower Big Ditch [PDF 2.3 MB]
Lower Crab Creek [PDF 1,9 MB]
Marion Drain [PDF 2.5 MB]
Mission Creek [PDF 2.8 MB]Naneum Creek [PDF 1.1 MB]
Stemilt Creek [PDF 1 MB]
Snipes Creek [PDF 1.3 MB]
Sulphur Creek [PDF 1.2 MB]
Touchet River [PDF 1.9 MB]
Upper Bertrand Creek [PDF 2.7 MB]
Upper Big Ditch [PDF 2.3 MB]
Woodland Creek [PDF 1.1 MB]
2018
- 2017 Surface Water Monitoring Watershed Fact Sheets
Burnt Bridge Creek [PDF 0.4 MB]
Crab Creek [PDF 0.4 MB]
Indian Slough [PDF 0.4 MB]
Lower Bertrand Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Lower Big Ditch [PDF 0.5 MB]
Lower Brender Creek [PDF 0.4 MB]
Marion Drain [PDF 0.4 MB]
Mission Creek [PDF 0.4 MB]Naneum Creek [PDF 0.3 MB]
Snipes Creek [PDF 0.4 MB]
Stemilt Creek [PDF 0.4 MB]
Sulphur Creek [PDF 0.4 MB]
Upper Bertrand Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Upper Big Ditch [PDF 0.5 MB]
Upper Brender Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Woodland Creek [PDF 0.4 MB]
- Data Report: Pilot Study of Pesticides in Washington State Stream Sediments [PDF 2.4 MB]
- Estimated Nitrogen Available for Transport in the Lower Yakima Valley Groundwater Management Area [PDF 2.9 MB]
- Assessment of Herbicides in Surface Water in the Hoh River Watershed [PDF 1.4 MB]
- Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance/SEPA Review: Liquid Nutrient Transport Easement [PDF 1.8 MB]
- Fact Sheet: DDT Removal by the Brender Creek Wetland [PDF 0.5 MB]
- 2016 Surface Water Monitoring Watershed Fact Sheets
Brender Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Clarks Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Indian Slough [PDF 0.5 MB]
Lower Bertrand Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Lower Big Ditch [PDF 0.5 MB]
Marion Drain [PDF 0.4 MB]Mission Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Snipes Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Stemilt Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Sulphur Creek [PDF 0.6 MB]
Upper Bertrand Creek [PDF 0.5 MB]
Upper Big Ditch [PDF 0.5 MB]
2016
- 2015 Surface Water Monitoring Watershed Fact Sheets
Brender Creek [PDF 0.8 MB]
Browns Slough [PDF 0.7 MB]
Indian Slough [PDF 0.9 MB]
Lower Bertrand Creek [PDF 0.8 MB]
Lower Big Ditch [PDF 0.8 MB]
Marion Drain [PDF 0.9 MB]
Mission Creek [PDF 0.8 MB]Peshastin Creek [PDF 0.8 MB]
Spring Creek [PDF 0.9 MB]
Stemilt Creek [PDF 0.8 MB]
Sulphur Creek [PDF 0.9 MB]
Thornton Creek [PDF 0.9 MB]
Upper Bertrand Creek [PDF 0.8 MB]
Upper Big Ditch [PDF 0.8 MB] - Focus Sheet: 2015 Drought [PDF 0.4 MB]
- Fact Sheet: 2015 Tenmile Creek Crayfish Kill [PDF 1 MB]
- Data Report: The Effectiveness of Riparian Vegetation at Intercepting Drift from Aerial Pesticide Application [PDF 15.8 MB]
- Final Report: Best Management Practices and Pesticides in Cranberry Bog Drainage Ditches [PDF 2.1 MB]
2014
- 2013 Data Summary: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 3.9 MB]
- Non-Agricultural Pesticide Use in Puget Sound Counties [PDF 3.6 MB]
- Dacthal Occurance in Washington State Groundwater [PDF 8.3 MB]
- 2013 Initial Report: Best Management Practices and Pesticides in Cranberry Bog Drainage Ditches [PDF 1.3 MB]
2013
- Thurston County Agricultural Land - Pocket Gopher Evaluation [PDF 2.4 MB]
- Agricultural Practices in Conboy Lake Oregon Spotted Frog Habitat [PDF 1.1 MB]
- Copper in Surface Waters from Urban and Agricultural Watersheds [PDF 1.9 MB]
- 2012 Data Summary: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 2.3 MB]
- 2009 - 2011 Triennial Report: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmon-Bearing Streams [PDF 6.9 MB]
2012 and earlier
- 2010 Data Summary: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 2.6 MB]
- 2009 Data Summary: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 5.3 MB]
- 2006-2008 Triennial Report: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 10.9 MB]
- WSDA Pesticide Management Strategy [PDF 3.7 MB]
- 2007 Data Summary: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 1.7 MB]
- 2006 Data Summary: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 1.9 MB]
- 2003-2005 Triennial Report: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 2.8 MB]
- 2004 Report: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 1.5 MB]
- 2003 Report: Surface Water Monitoring Program for Pesticides in Salmonid-Bearing Streams [PDF 0.8 MB]
- White Paper: A Process for Evaluating Pesticides in Washington State Surface Waters for Potential Impacts to Salmonids [PDF 0.9 MB]