LONGVIEW — Authors of a new situation report on Mount St. Helens flood threats will present their draft study March 6 in Kelso.

Researchers for the Seattle-based Ruckelshaus Center have interviewed about 50 officials and citizens familiar with the mountain and its flood hazards to compile a report for the U.S. Forest Service.

They will present their findings and recommendations from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum, at the corner of Allen Street and Fourth Avenue in Kelso.

The Center is a joint effort of Washington State University and the University of Washington that seeks to encourage collaborative public policy in the Pacific Northwest. It is hosted and administered at WSU by WSU Extensionand hosted at UW by the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance.

The report chastised agencies around the region for not working more collaboratively to address flooding challenges and said decision-making should involve a broader array of groups and parties. It also emphasized the importance of thinking of Spirit Lake and the Toutle River as a system.