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
Goldendale Observatory launches weekly virtual program
||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE PARKS ||| Viewers will learn about stars, planets, satellites and more via YouTube Live OLYMPIA – Nov. 5, 2020 – Washington State Parks will offer free weekly virtual programs livestreamed from Goldendale
WSU Extension to offer home horticulture training
||| FROM CAITLIN BLETHEN FOR SJC MASTER GARDENER PROGRAM ||| Learn to be a better home gardener and steward of the environment this winter with Washington State University – San Juan County Extension’s new online
These folks have been harvesting bee cocoons at Orcas School garden
||| FROM DIANNE MACONDRAY FOR ORCAS MASTER GARDENERS ||| On October 19th. a small contingent of the Orcas Master Gardeners harvested Mason and Leaf Cutter Bee cocoons from nesting materials at the Orcas School garden.
Murder hornets successfully removed from tree near Blaine
||| FROM KOMO NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS ||| BLAINE, Wash. – State entomologists successfully vacuumed several giant Asian “murder hornets” from a tree cavity near Blaine Saturday morning. Officials with the Washington State Department of Agriculture
Panel discusses threats to the Salish Sea
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, REPORTER ||| On October 13, the Lopez Island Library hosted a panel of legislators and environmental advocates titled “Protecting the Salish Sea in the Time of Covid-19.” The event was put
Local organizations take action to support recovery of Salmon and Orca
||| FROM FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS AND SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ||| An innovative partnership between Friends of the San Juans (Friends) and the San Juan Preservation Trust (Preservation Trust) has been quietly gaining
Learn to read the weather before you head out on the water in upcoming workshop
||| FROM WASHINGTON SEA GRANT ||| Washington Sea Grant and Jefferson County WSU Extension are co-sponsoring a Marine Weather Workshop. Topics to be covered include: The relationships of atmospheric pressure and wind Determining the path
Over 62,796 people, 41 organizations ask Governor Inslee to oppose new shipping terminal at Canadian border
||| FROM KATIE FLEMING FOR FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ||| Canada’s largest port, the Port of Vancouver, has proposed building a massive, new container- ship terminal, called Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2). The terminal
District 2 candidates respond: Is SJC prepared for “unanticipated growth”?
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| First, a lengthy preamble for context. In “How Climate Migration Will Reshape America,” journalist Abrahm Lustgarten, looking at the not-too-distant future, writes that “The millions of people moving
SJI Historical Park cautions visitors against aggressive attacking owls
||| FROM BRANDON CADWELL FOR SAN JUAN ISLAND NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK ||| San Juan Island National Historical Park is cautioning people recreating in the park about recent and aggressive behavior from owls that has resulted
After seven year project, salmon habitat restored on Sucia Island
||| FROM KATIE FLEMING FOR FRIENDS OF SAN JUANS ||| Almost seven years ago, Friends of the San Juans began working with Washington State Parks on a salmon recovery project on Sucia Island. After a
Burn permits will go on sale October 5th
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Fall is here and the time has come for burn permits to go on sale. Please follow the link below to purchase a burn permit through our online
State to provide $300K in emergency grants to Washington shellfish growers
Departments of Commerce and Agriculture partner with Impact Washington to create Shellfish Seed Bank, offering up to $5,000 to shellfish growers severely impacted by COVID-19 ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ||| OLYMPIA, WA --
Inslee on climate crisis: ‘We cannot give in to defeat and pessimism’
||| FROM GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE'S OFFICE ||| Rolling Stone published an op-ed this week from the governor in recognition of Climate Week and the many challenges that lay ahead in guaranteeing a sustainable future for
A second brand new calf born just yesterday into J-pod
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| The Center for Whale Research confirms that another calf has been born into the Southern Resident killer whale community, and the mother is J41. CWR will eagerly await
