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Klamath River flows free after the last dams come down, leaving land to tribes and salmon

By News Source|2024-09-02T15:50:02-07:00September 2nd, 2024|Comments Off

Governor’s San Juan visit focuses on climate change, Climate Commitment Act

By News Source|2024-08-31T15:33:16-07:00August 31st, 2024|4 Comments

The Green Economy is hungry for copper—and people are stealing, fighting, and dying to feed it

By News Source|2024-08-27T14:13:14-07:00August 31st, 2024|15 Comments

Some things about this Eastsound Water recall activity

By Community|2024-08-30T14:17:37-07:00August 31st, 2024|6 Comments

Letter to Editor | Landscaper for O’Day

By Community|2024-08-29T15:06:34-07:00August 30th, 2024|Comments Off

State officials scramble after discovering highly invasive species capable of wiping out major West Coast industry

By Community|2024-08-29T16:12:03-07:00August 30th, 2024|Comments Off

Resiliency planning for San Juan Islands included in transformational $73.6MM-Federal Climate Award

By Community|2024-08-29T11:25:38-07:00August 29th, 2024|2 Comments

Farm Funding Workshop

By Community|2024-09-03T12:32:42-07:00August 29th, 2024|Comments Off

Orcas challenge the Bering Sea’s black cod industry

By News Source|2024-08-27T13:08:23-07:00August 28th, 2024|Comments Off

U.S. officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save another species from extinction

By News Source|2024-08-28T12:46:39-07:00August 28th, 2024|8 Comments

7 steps to what a real renewable energy transition looks like

By News Source|2024-08-27T12:35:36-07:00August 27th, 2024|8 Comments

Master Gardeners Workshop

By Community|2024-08-26T14:35:02-07:00August 27th, 2024|Comments Off

Master Gardener clinic

By Community|2024-08-26T11:49:36-07:00August 26th, 2024|Comments Off

September Bird Walk at SJI Sculpture Park

By Community|2024-08-22T14:07:36-07:00August 26th, 2024|Comments Off

Of Leaks and Lies: A looming nuclear catastrophe threatens PNW

By News Source|2024-08-24T15:06:57-07:00August 25th, 2024|3 Comments

500-million-year-old alien-like sea creature discovered in Canada. It’s a new species

By News Source|2024-08-23T15:15:11-07:00August 25th, 2024|Comments Off

Eastsound Water Users draft recall documents

By Community|2024-08-24T14:36:40-07:00August 24th, 2024|10 Comments

Update from The Exchange

By Community|2024-08-23T14:47:33-07:00August 24th, 2024|Comments Off

Take a look: Updated plans for new Washington State Ferries hybrid-electric boats

By News Source|2024-08-24T12:40:35-07:00August 24th, 2024|6 Comments

Letter to Editor | Village Green community tree not looking good

By Community|2024-08-23T14:19:50-07:00August 24th, 2024|8 Comments

How it all went wrong for tourism

By News Source|2024-08-24T11:48:26-07:00August 24th, 2024|4 Comments

The return of the Kings (salmon, that is)

By Community|2024-08-23T12:21:47-07:00August 24th, 2024|Comments Off

Guest Opinion | What will it take?

By Community|2024-08-23T14:08:54-07:00August 23rd, 2024|11 Comments

Near-extinct bird exhibit at SJ Sculpture Park

By Community|2024-08-22T14:00:51-07:00August 22nd, 2024|Comments Off

Apache Stronghold heads east on prayer journey to Supreme Court

By Community|2024-08-22T12:06:46-07:00August 22nd, 2024|Comments Off

A new season begins for Orcas Island Garden Club

By Community|2024-08-21T14:19:31-07:00August 21st, 2024|Comments Off

Fire risk and climate change in the San Juan Islands

By Community|2024-08-21T15:06:29-07:00August 20th, 2024|Comments Off

Too many people, not enough management

By News Source|2024-08-19T11:49:25-07:00August 19th, 2024|1 Comment

Monday’s rare super blue moon is a confounding statistical marvel

By News Source|2024-08-17T17:30:00-07:00August 18th, 2024|Comments Off

State Democrat Environment and Climate Caucus adopts resolution to establish rights of the Snake River

By News Source|2024-08-16T18:52:24-07:00August 16th, 2024|9 Comments

Larsen: $1 Million for pipeline safety trust improves pipeline safety in PNW

By Community|2024-08-16T11:24:26-07:00August 16th, 2024|3 Comments

Workshop | Thinning your forest

By Community|2024-08-15T10:51:04-07:00August 15th, 2024|1 Comment

Land Bank Meeting

By Community|2024-08-14T13:45:28-07:00August 14th, 2024|Comments Off

Every farm has a story

By Community|2024-08-14T13:30:24-07:00August 14th, 2024|Comments Off

More reasons to protect our eelgrass meadows

By Community|2024-08-14T13:17:41-07:00August 14th, 2024|1 Comment

Meet gardening author at Library

By Community|2024-08-13T14:16:59-07:00August 13th, 2024|Comments Off

Island Ways: Steamship Authority apologizes to customers after cancelling weekend trips due to crew shortages

By News Source|2024-08-12T16:16:03-07:00August 12th, 2024|Comments Off

Recreational shellfish harvesting remains closed

By Community|2024-08-12T11:04:54-07:00August 12th, 2024|Comments Off

Plant questions answered

By Community|2024-08-10T12:04:59-07:00August 11th, 2024|Comments Off

County approves lease for Argyle lots

By News Source|2024-08-08T14:18:04-07:00August 9th, 2024|1 Comment

Garden Club looking for story contributors

By Community|2024-08-06T12:59:09-07:00August 6th, 2024|Comments Off

Friends of the San Juans unanimously endorses renewal of our Land Bank

By Community|2024-08-06T13:01:36-07:00August 6th, 2024|1 Comment

How the Southern Resident population reached an alarming low point

By Community|2024-08-05T17:46:18-07:00August 5th, 2024|Comments Off

The man who brought home Earth: Stories of Bill Anders

By Community|2024-08-05T17:11:41-07:00August 5th, 2024|Comments Off

Ship fire off Victoria shows Canada isn’t prepared for marine emergencies

By News Source|2024-08-01T10:28:17-07:00August 1st, 2024|2 Comments

‘Gut-wrenching’ photos show humpback whale with severed tail on B.C. coast

By News Source|2024-08-01T13:12:56-07:00August 1st, 2024|2 Comments

Endangered soupfin, broadnose sevengill sharks discovered in Puget Sound

By News Source|2024-08-01T10:07:14-07:00August 1st, 2024|Comments Off

Whale Museum’s summer lecture series continues

By Community|2024-08-10T16:02:51-07:00July 30th, 2024|Comments Off

Vessels in Strait of Gibraltar are being fitted with sharpened blades to rudders to ward off orcas

By News Source|2024-07-30T11:05:05-07:00July 30th, 2024|Comments Off

Indigenous communities catch lamprey at Willamette Falls every summer. That tradition could be in danger

By News Source|2024-07-28T15:46:56-07:00July 29th, 2024|Comments Off

Washington is giving tax breaks to data centers that threaten the state’s green energy push

By News Source|2024-07-28T12:03:18-07:00July 28th, 2024|Comments Off

US promises $240M to improve fish hatcheries, protect tribal rights in Pacific Northwest

By News Source|2024-07-27T15:30:14-07:00July 28th, 2024|Comments Off

Wildfire smoke safety tips

By Community|2024-07-26T12:16:59-07:00July 26th, 2024|Comments Off

Is B.C.’s precarious resident orca population swimming a path to extinction?

By News Source|2024-07-26T13:57:44-07:00July 26th, 2024|Comments Off

Guest Opinion | Tourism and us, Part II

By Community|2024-07-25T14:00:16-07:00July 25th, 2024|4 Comments

The 4 Lower Snake River Dams need to be removed

By News Source|2024-07-25T11:59:07-07:00July 25th, 2024|1 Comment

Life returns to Ukrainian reservoir drained by Russian strike on dam

By News Source|2024-07-25T11:37:17-07:00July 25th, 2024|Comments Off

Can B.C.’s southern resident orcas be taken off the path to extinction?

By News Source|2024-07-25T10:57:38-07:00July 25th, 2024|Comments Off

Washington secures $28M for salmon habitat restoration projects

By News Source|2024-07-24T15:41:11-07:00July 24th, 2024|1 Comment

Guest Opinion | Tourism and us

By Community|2024-07-24T21:06:42-07:00July 24th, 2024|2 Comments

August Bird Walk

By Community|2024-07-24T13:01:11-07:00July 24th, 2024|Comments Off

Island Rec, Conservation Land Bank announce new trail partnership

By Community|2024-07-23T10:54:28-07:00July 23rd, 2024|Comments Off

Master Gardeners answer plant questions

By Community|2024-07-22T11:51:08-07:00July 22nd, 2024|Comments Off

Ferry captains ask fishermen to give them space on the water

By News Source|2024-07-19T15:01:03-07:00July 21st, 2024|Comments Off

Abbreviated return time of extreme events

By News Source|2024-07-19T16:02:42-07:00July 21st, 2024|Comments Off

County releases public comment analysis report for Draft Destination Management Plan

By Community|2024-07-20T11:05:38-07:00July 20th, 2024|9 Comments

Rating Bureau classification for Orcas Fire protection class reduced

By Community|2024-07-19T13:21:02-07:00July 19th, 2024|2 Comments

Calling local businesses and community members for Monthly Beach Cleanups at Jackson’s Beach

By Lin McNulty|2024-07-17T12:42:19-07:00July 17th, 2024|Comments Off

Land Bank monthly meeting

By Community|2024-07-22T14:14:59-07:00July 17th, 2024|Comments Off

Transportation and climate change in the San Juan Islands

By Community|2024-07-23T11:08:28-07:00July 16th, 2024|18 Comments

Certifier pulls sustainable recommendation for SE Alaska Fisheries to protect dwindling salmon, endangered orca

By News Source|2024-07-16T10:27:52-07:00July 16th, 2024|Comments Off

Sinister reason 77 whales may have washed up dead on Scots beach revealed as it emerges they were healthy

By News Source|2024-07-16T10:29:21-07:00July 16th, 2024|2 Comments

Nature Rx: A health and wellness walking series with the Land Bank

By Community|2024-07-14T15:16:50-07:00July 14th, 2024|Comments Off

San Juan County’s ‘wicked problem’

By Matthew Gilbert|2024-07-12T21:06:24-07:00July 12th, 2024|7 Comments

Copenhagen may have cracked how to get tourists to behave: Free glasses of wine and kayaking

By News Source|2024-07-11T17:12:31-07:00July 12th, 2024|Comments Off

Fires banned on DNR-protected lands

By Community|2024-07-11T14:57:51-07:00July 11th, 2024|Comments Off

Whale Museum’s Global Orca Workshop

By Community|2024-08-10T16:23:59-07:00July 11th, 2024|Comments Off

4.7, 5.4, 6.4 earthquake swarm recorded off Vancouver Island

By Community|2024-07-11T13:27:59-07:00July 11th, 2024|Comments Off

How Native nations forced federal investment in salmon reintroduction

By News Source|2024-07-10T16:13:06-07:00July 11th, 2024|Comments Off

Squirt guns and ‘go home’ signs: Barcelona residents take aim at tourists

By News Source|2024-07-10T15:07:24-07:00July 10th, 2024|8 Comments

Green invasion hits Orcas Island’s Cascade Lake

By News Source|2024-07-11T11:05:49-07:00July 10th, 2024|9 Comments

Cultivating Success | Growing future farmers

By Community|2024-08-13T14:18:43-07:00July 10th, 2024|Comments Off

Master Gardener Clinic

By Community|2024-07-09T15:13:17-07:00July 9th, 2024|Comments Off

Islanders launch campaign to renew Land Bank’s funding

By Community|2024-07-10T10:45:24-07:00July 9th, 2024|13 Comments

Whale Museum’s summer lecture series continues

By Community|2024-08-11T15:06:22-07:00July 9th, 2024|Comments Off

Why ‘deadbeat dam’ removals are so difficult in WA, PNW

By News Source|2024-07-07T10:30:42-07:00July 7th, 2024|Comments Off

Whale researcher says orphan orca ‘likely’ seen off Vancouver Island

By News Source|2024-07-06T20:35:49-07:00July 7th, 2024|Comments Off

Weather Alert | Hot, hot, hot through weekend

By News Source|2024-07-03T11:32:58-07:00July 3rd, 2024|Comments Off

Visitors Bureau response to Letter to the Editor in theOrcasonian

By Community|2024-07-02T11:55:13-07:00July 2nd, 2024|Comments Off

Pea Patch campus awarded $98,675 to explore a solar microgrid from WA Dept. of Commerce

By Community|2024-06-29T15:37:53-07:00June 30th, 2024|1 Comment

State Democrat Environment, Climate Caucus (ECC) adopts resolution recognizing inherent rights of Southern Resident Orca

By Community|2024-06-26T13:05:11-07:00June 26th, 2024|3 Comments

SJC Monthly News Digest – June 2024

By Community|2024-06-26T10:56:37-07:00June 26th, 2024|Comments Off

Shaw Island house purchase by county makes no sense

By Community|2024-06-24T13:25:34-07:00June 24th, 2024|4 Comments

Whale Museum Pod Nod

By Community|2024-06-24T13:11:18-07:00June 24th, 2024|Comments Off

Barcelona to ban apartment rentals to tourists in bid to cut housing costs

By News Source|2024-06-23T12:56:30-07:00June 24th, 2024|Comments Off

Capri lifts ban on tourists after resolving problems with water supply

By News Source|2024-06-23T14:50:11-07:00June 23rd, 2024|2 Comments

Crucial marine plant under study: Eelgrass health in San Juans

By Community|2024-06-21T13:59:37-07:00June 21st, 2024|3 Comments

Biden-⁠Harris administration launches Task Force to advance historic commitment to restore wild salmon, other native fish in Columbia River Basin

By News Source|2024-06-20T14:29:52-07:00June 20th, 2024|Comments Off

US admits dams in Pacific northwest have devastated Native Americans

By News Source|2024-06-19T14:41:05-07:00June 19th, 2024|1 Comment

Land Bank hosts public meeting and field trip

By Community|2024-06-18T16:43:56-07:00June 18th, 2024|Comments Off

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