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
Update on current status of Vacation Rental Permit moratorium process
-- from The Vacation Rental Work Group -- Per the request of County Council, the Vacation Rental Working Group has developed regulatory language and sent recommendations in Mid-December 2019 to Council. There is no guarantee that the Council will
PBS will soon air Hedrick Smith’s ‘Democracy Rebellion’
-- from Hedrick Smith -- The news flow has been pretty rough in the closing weeks of 2019 - the harsh conflict over impeachment, threats from North Korea and the persistent challenge of China, the
Friends of the San Juans ensures added protections for Southern Resident Killer Whales
-- from Katie Fleming for Friends of the San Juans -- On August 29, 2019, Friends of the San Juans appealed Whatcom County’s conditional approval of a 300,000-barrel external floating roof crude oil storage tank
Orcas Recycling asks for help to fix recycling
-- from Orcas Recycling/The Exchange -- The political and ecological challenges we face today can be overwhelming. The problems are vast, spanning the globe. We all know that we need to act, but how can we
Free movie, ‘Dammed to Extinction,’ coming to Sea View
Wednesday, January 8, 7 p.m., Sea View Theatre -- from Justin Cox for SeaDoc Society -- On Wednesday, January 8 head out to the Sea View Theatre for a free movie about salmon, killer whales,
Winter update from your conservation land bank
-- from Lincoln Bormann for San Juan County Land Bank-- Channel Preserve, LopezLopez Preserve Steward, Amanda Wedow, hosted a public scoping meeting in early October. The event was widely attended with break-out discussions covering a
Local weather alert: Heavy rain in the forecast for later this week
-- from Brendan Cowan for Department of Emergency Management -- 2010 Flooding on Bailer Hill on SJI (DEM Photo) While flood impacts in the islands are much less than for our mainland neighbors, every few
State awards more than $26M for salmon recovery projects statewide
$414,702 to San Juan County -- from Susan Zemek, WA Recreation and Conservation Office -- OLYMPIA–The Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board today announced the award of $26.1 million in grants for projects across the state aimed
Want to fight climate change? Experience what we’re fighting for
-- from Jay Inslee, Governor -- My first interaction with an orca whale took place when I was 5 years old. I was fishing on a boat with my dad in the San Juan Islands,
It’s the grandmother orcas that help their grand-whales survive, study says
-- from Washington Post -- An endangered female orca leaps from the water in Puget Sound in Seattle. A new study documents how grandmother orcas help their grand-whales survive. (Elaine Thompson/AP) In the Salish Sea
Whale Museum hosting storykeeper stargazing event to honor SRKW babies
Friday, December 20, 4:30 p.m., American Camp -- from Tracie Merrell for The Whale Museum -- Please join The Whale Museum (TWM) at the first parking lot at South Beach, American Camp on San Juan
Learn to create ornaments, gifts from trash
Saturday, December 14 12 - 4 pm., the Exchange Annex -- Marta Nielson for ORS/Exchange -- The Exchange, in conjunction with “Sew For Zero Waste," is having an Ornament/Gift Making Workshop on Saturday, December 14
Letter to Editor | Vacationing in a fools’ paradise
-- from Tom Evans -- There is no better time than right now to save what all of us hold sacred about the beauty of the land, water, trees, mountains and shoreline of the San Juan Islands. It has
Guest Opinion | Proposed Monument plan threatens fragile ecosystems
-- from Russel Barsh for Kwiaht -- The federal government’s plan for managing the San Juan Islands National Monument will do more harm than good, according to an analysis by the nonprofit conservation laboratory Kwiaht.
Guest Opinion | A call for rational climate action
-- from Bill Appel -- You attend lectures, subscribe to emails, newsletters and magazines, and buy books describing environmental degradation and the resulting death, destruction and misery suffered by all forms of life, and the
