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
News Brief | Alaska receives disaster help from Western Washington
||| FROM KING-TV SEATTLE ||| The remnants of a typhoon slammed into western Alaska last week, leaving thousands with nowhere to live. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY KING-TV SEATTLE Back in Alaska, people are expected to be
Wind Advisory in effect thru 5am Sunday
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Seattle WA 1105 AM PDT Sat Oct 25 2025 San Juan County-Foothills and Valleys of the North Cascades- Foothills and Valleys of
Wind advisory posted this morning
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Seattle WA 158 AM PDT Fri Oct 24 2025 San Juan County-Lowlands of Western Whatcom County-Port Townsend Area-Island County- Including Friday Harbor,
Garden Club, Master Gardeners Program | Sow & grow native wildflowers
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB |||
CWR locates 26 Bigg’s Killer Whales traveling together
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| FULL ENCOUNTER REPORT ObservBegin: 05:05 PM ObservEnd: 05:27 PM Vessel: KCB III Staff: Dave Ellifrit, Michael Weiss, Katie Jones Other Observers: Rachel John Pods: Bigg's killer whales IDsEncountered:
News Brief | Inside ‘data centre alley’
||| FROM SKY.COM ||| Down at ground level you can see the hallmarks as you drive around what is known as "data centre alley". ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY SKY.COM There are enormous power lines everywhere -
News Brief | In Alaska, land is easy to come by. But energy and food are not
||| FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ||| Alaska tests a theory: Solar farms help nearby crops grow. The purpose is to study how food and energy can be produced together, in a place where food
New J Pod calf documented
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Full Encounter Report ObservBegin: 02:55 PM ObservEnd: 04:30 PM Vessel: KCB III Staff: Dave Ellifrit, Michael Weiss, Katie Jones Other Observers: Rachel John Pods: Southern Resident: J Pod
Odlin County Park to host interagency prescribed burn on Lopez Island
This burn will help with fuels reduction as well as providing a training opportunity for San Juan County Fire District 4 ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Parks, Recreation, and Fair
No Place Like Loam | Growing wine grapes in Seattle? Part 2
||| NO PLACE LIKE LOAM by ALEX TAMAYO-WOLF ||| If you missed part 1, read it first. I saw a picture of my daughter yesterday. She was eleven, standing proud as a docent for the
News Brief | Fault lines could be synchronized when ‘The Big One’ hits
||| FROM KGW NEWS ||| A new theory from Oregon State University researchers suggests that two fault systems along the West Coast may be synchronized — and could trigger each other. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY KGW
The Whale Museum announces virtual global Orca workshop
||| FROM CONOR AGNEW for THE WHALE MUSEUM ||| The Whale Museum will host its second annual Global Orca Workshop on November 13 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM PT. The theme of the workshop
News Brief | Whale with no tail swimming off Washington coast
||| FROM LIVE SCIENCE ||| Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY LIVE SCIENCE Read full article
SJC Land Bank to meet October 17
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY LAND BANK ||| The San Juan County Conservation Land Bank Commission will hold a regular monthly meeting on October 17, 2025 from 8:45am – 11:10am via Zoom. Lopez Island
News Brief | Researchers discover remote lake could hold the key to understanding elusive threat of microplastics
||| FROM THE COOL DOWN ||| "There's no point knowing all about microplastics in a lake without using it to make change. Research shouldn't happen in a vacuum." ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE COOL DOWN "There
