Here’s a thought…
“The competition between Nature and the economy is deep and broad.
In the short term, the economy usually wins. In the long term …?”
BILL APPEL
As of 4 p.m. Friday, here’s the actual, local forecast for this weekend’s heat wave
||| FROM UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES ||| WAZ001-261100- San Juan County- Including the cities of Friday Harbor, Eastsound, and Roche Harbor 312 PM PDT Fri Jun 25 2021 TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s
Guest Opinion | Explosive development drives interest in County’s Comp Plan update
||| FROM BRENT LYLES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ||| Judging by construction activity and real estate transactions, the pressures and speed of development in San Juan County have never been greater. Fortunately,
This week’s orca survey blog looks back at legendary superpod encounter from 1976
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| On June 6, Center for Whale Research (CWR) staff participated in the Orca Salmon Alliance’s Orca Action Month Kick-off Event hosted at CWR’s ORCA SURVEY Outreach & Education
There’s a new location for Garden C on this weekend’s Garden Club tour
||| FROM ORCAS GARDEN CLUB ||| Due to unexpected circumstances, we have had to find a substitute garden for GARDEN C. Sara’s Garden at Outlook Inn (171 Main Street, Eastsound, WA) is the new GARDEN
Find your totem… What Southern Resident Orca arrived in the San Juans the same year you did?
SRKW community demographics since 1998 ||| SOURCE: ORCA NETWORK ||| Southern Resident Orca Community Demographics Composition of Pods, Births and Deaths since 1998Updated February 17, 2021 As of February 17, 2021, the Southern Resident Killer
CWR revisits a mini-superpod encounter with J pod and L12s from June of 1995
This year, the Center for Whale Research (CWR) celebrates 45 years of ORCA SURVEY: documenting and studying the Southern Resident orca population. In this Orca Month 2021 Blog, long-time CWR staff member and orca photo
Master Gardeners return to Driftwood Nursery to offer gardening help
||| FROM DIANNE MACONDRAY for MASTER GARDENERS ||| As the growing season accelerates you may find yourself in need of gardening help. If so, the Master Gardeners of Orcas are here to help answering your
Statewide chlorine supply limited due to equipment failure at manufacturing plant
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Department of Health (DOH), Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), Tacoma Public Utilities, the City of Everett and partner agencies across the state emphasized today that drinking water throughout
Observing orca from the air gives a novel look into their social structure
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| The Southern Resident killer whales are well known for their complex societies, with whales living in family units referred to as matrilines, which are part of larger units
State Parks pilot program lets you be your own ‘Agent of Discovery’ with new app
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to discover the secrets of a ghost town and a well-known Washington state park… ||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE PARKS ||| Did you know the Washington State
Letter to Editor | Really sad the last few days
||| FROM JOHN TITUS ||| I have been talking to various people who say they are just going to have to leave Orcas. These folks are hard working, love their jobs, but can’t afford to
Orcas Garden Club readies Safe Garden Tour as pandemic nears end
||| FROM NITA COUCHMAN for ORCAS GARDEN CLUB ||| The Orcas Island Garden Club invites you to join us at our 2021 Safe Garden Tour on Saturday, June 26 and Sunday, June 27 from 11
Navy wraps up third sound monitoring period; no final report yet
||| FROM MIKE WELDING for NAS WHIDBEY ISLAND ||| NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - The Navy completed its third week of real-time sound monitoring at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island as directed by
Could Portsmouth to Cherbourg in 40 minutes mean Anacortes to Orcas in 11 minutes?
Seagliders will whisk 150 passengers to France at speeds of 180 mph by 2028 ||| FROM THE DAILY MAIL ||| 'Seagliders' will transport passengers across the Channel in just 40 minutes by 2028, if a
San Juan County Land Bank agenda for June 2021 meeting
||| FROM TANJA WILLIAMSON for SAN JUAN COUNTY LAND BANK ||| The San Juan County Land Bank Commission will hold its monthly meeting on June 18, from 8:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. via Zoom. The
