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 on State of the Salish Sea | Science Day Tuesday
||| FROM EARTH DAY ORCAS MONTH ||| Tuesday Apr 8th is Science Day for Earth Day Orcas Month. Two informative and valuable events full of local environmental impact news are meeting at the Parish Hall
Community feedback requested on 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan
||| FROM SAN JUAN ISLANDS CONSERVATION DISTRICT ||| The San Juan County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is being updated from its original 2012 version and is now open for public comment – community feedback
June is Orca Action Month 2025. Please join us
||| FROM ORCA SALMON ALLIANCE ||| It’s that time again! June is Orca Action Month in the Pacific Northwest, and the Orca Salmon Alliance is looking forward to all kinds of activities throughout the region.
Friday Harbor High School students advocate for recycling reform in Olympia
||| FROM JESS NEWLEY for FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ||| On March 24, Friends of the San Juans led a group of passionate student advocates from the Friday Harbor High School Eco Club to
Commerce rescinds funding for tidal energy project after tribal objections
Decision to rescind funding respects sovereignty of tribal nations ||| FROM WASHINGTON DEPT. OF COMMERCE ||| OLYMPIA, WA – The Washington State Department of Commerce has withdrawn funding for a proposed tidal energy research project
Gardening at the Orcas Christian School to make way for spring planting
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| We're looking for a few enthusiastic volunteers on next Monday, April 7th at 10:00 am to help out a local school garden. We need just one hour of your
Project Update: | Bayhead Creek Culvert project on Killebrew Lake Rd prepares for fall construction
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County is pleased to share updates on the Bayhead Creek Culvert Repair Project on Killebrew Lake Rd on Orcas Island. This project seeks to address damage
Spring 2025 Great Islands Clean-Up | Think global, act local
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Small actions make a world of difference! This spring, join your fellow islanders in the 2025 Spring Great Islands Clean-Up and take action to keep our beaches and
Garden Club | Victorian ideas for the modern shade garden
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Richie Steffen Please join us on Wednesday, April 16th, when the Orcas Island Garden Club welcomes Richie Steffen, Executive Director of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical
Loyalty to Earth | Loyalty to the natural world
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." -- Aldo Leopold, author of Sand County Almanac ||| LOYALTY TO THE EARTH by ELISABETH ROBSON |||
Securing Your Farm’s Future | Legal tools for farm succession
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County farmers can gain essential legal insights for farm succession planning by attending a free virtual workshop hosted by WSU San Juan Extension on April 9
Spring has sprung – and so have noxious weeds
What to look out for this Spring ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Noxious Weed Control Program is preparing for spring weeds – and you should be, too! The spring adage,
OPALCO’s member appreciation event celebrating local power
OPALCO Annual Member Festival: April 25, 3-6 pm ||| FROM KRISTSA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| Get ready for the most electrifying event of the year – the OPALCO Annual Member Festival!
Guest Opinion | Concerns about the Rosario Tidal Energy Project
||| FROM ELISABETH ROBSON ||| On Friday, March 28, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) sent out notifications that OPALCO has applied for a draft license application for their Rosario Strait Tidal Energy Project; OPALCO posted
Earth Day Month in the San Juans
||| FROM EARTH DAY ORCAS & FRIENDS ||| We are delighted to share news that several local community collaboratives are hosting month-long learning, making, and celebration events in the San Juan Islands. Each island has
