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
Letter to Editor | Arctic Pie Surprise
||| FROM DAN GOTTLIEB ||| Arctic Pie Surprise Prep time: 4.7 billion yearsCook time: 260 yearsTotal time: 4,700,000,260 years Ingredients: Oil companies (see our cartel recipe) Mining companies (yup, here too) Adulterated media outlets (ditto) One
News Brief | Critically endangered North Atlantic right whale making a comeback
||| FROM SCIENCE ALERT ||| It's not yet time to take our foot off the gas, conservation-wise. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY SCIENCE ALERT Researchers at the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium have shared that in 2024,
News Brief | New underwater technology could give scientists a direct line to orcas
||| FROM KING-TV ||| "There are fiber optic cables everywhere, that's why we get internet. But we can basically use the same fiber for monitoring marine mammals." ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY KING-TV If successful, it could
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
