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
Add amateur radio to your disaster preparedness toolkit
||| FROM GREG HANCOCK for SJC AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY ||| Has COVID got you thinking about what you can do to prepare for future emergencies and disasters, like the inevitable Cascadia Subduction Zone mega-quake? We
Friends of San Juans achieves victory for southern resident orca in court
||| FROM LOVEL PRATT for FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ||| On April 6, Whatcom County Superior Court Judge David Freeman delivered a court victory both to Friends of the San Juans and to the
NAS Whidbey wraps up second sound monitoring period
||| FROM MICHAEL WELDING for WHIDBEY NAVAL AIR STATION ||| NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - The Navy completed its second week of real-time sound monitoring at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island as
County takes thoughtful approach to North Beach trees
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, theORCASONIAN OP-ED REPORTER ||| Back in January, concerns were raised about the condition of trees – mostly mature maples –along North Beach Road across the street from April’s Grove. One group
Six people in Washington sickened by Salmonella illness linked to wild songbirds
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Six Washington residents have been sickened as part of a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, believed to be linked to wild songbirds, particularly Pine Siskins. The Centers for Disease Control
New podcast examines endangered southern resident killer whales
‘Pod of Orcas’ is a podcast by local nonprofit, SeaDoc Society ||| FROM SEADOC SOCIETY ||| Among the many live events that were wiped away by the pandemic was the SeaDoc Society’s live Ocean Night
Huge dam demolition could save salmon on the edge of extinction
Spring-run Chinook salmon, critical to Indigenous fishers along the Klamath River, are in steep decline. But two recent developments may offer a path to their recovery. ||| FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ||| When Karuk tribal member
Check out Wolf Hollow’s upcoming photo competition
||| FROM SHONA AITKEN for WOLF HOLLOW ||| We are lucky to live in a place where there is so much wildlife all around us. During Earth Month in April, Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Studies shed light on why dams matter to salmon and orca
||| FROM KITSAP SUN ||| There is something inexplicable that draws us to orcas. The large dolphins — often referred to as killer whales — inhabit every ocean on Earth and have captured the attention
Center for Whale Research | This is the story of Ralph (J6)
For many years J pod contained three very iconic males - J1, J3, and J6. J6 was estimated to have been born in 1956 and was already a mostly full-grown adult male when CWR's Orca
Earth Day for the San Juans: Restore the earth, restore hope
“Here we all are, with nothing but our wit and our will to save the world.” – Samuel L. Jackson ||| FROM AMY NESLER for SAN JUANS VISITORS BUREAU ||| We might not have a
Oregon State University studied why people might support or reject orca conservation efforts
Oregon State University researchers analyzed more than 17,000 public comments focused on orca conservation in the state of Washington and found that the most common emotional sentiments were trust, anticipation and fear. ||| FROM SCIENCE
San Juan County Land Bank March 2021 meeting & agenda
||| FROM TANJA WILLIAMSON for SAN JUAN COUNTY LAND BANK ||| The San Juan County Land Bank Commission will hold its monthly meeting on March 19, from 8:30-11:30 a.m. via Zoom. This meeting will include
Meeting of the Minds to explore Cascade Creek coho salmon & water restoration
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Meeting of the Minds by Zoom – “Cascade Creek Coho Salmon and Water Restoration” by Orcas Senior Center: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 1 p.m. Please join
Workshop being offered to learn lean farming principles to boost production
||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| Join us for an engaging 90 minutes with Ben Hartman, author of The Lean Farm and The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables. In this workshop, Ben will
