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
No Place Like Loam | Edible landscape design
Aronia (Chokeberry) — Top 10 Permaculture Species ||| NO PLACE LIKE LOAM by ALEX TAMAYA WOLF ||| Why Aronia (Chokeberry) Is the Shrub That Crushes Blueberries in Nutrition, Resilience, and Design I woke this morning
Guest Opinion | Why we must speak up on deep sea mining in Alaska
Our Ocean, Our Voice | ||| FROM ELISABETH ROBSON ||| The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) recently opened a public comment period on a Request for Information and Interest that could pave the way
News Brief | Why orcas don’t kill people
||| FROM A-Z ANIMALS ||| Orcas are fully capable of killing a human, but such incidents almost never occur in the wild. Orcas maintain a 0 percent fatality rate against humans despite being the ocean’s
News Brief | Judge orders changes to Columbia and Snake River dam operations
||| FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ||| A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest in order to help salmon U.S.
Letter to Editor | Local democracy at work
||| FROM JEFF STRUTHERS ||| This week, I watched an Examiner’s hearing on OPALCO’s proposed upgrade to its facility on Decatur. A room full of islanders, including many from Decatur, expressed a variety of concerns.
Tides of March celebrates 18 years of Indian Island stewardship
||| FROM RUSSEL BARSH for KWIAHT ||| Last summer, more than three thousand people walked across the flats to Indian Island on daytime minus tides. Most of them were met by Kwiaht scientists, Orcas volunteers,
Agriculture speakers series
March 4th, 11 - 12 pm on Zoom ||| FROM AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE ||| If you own or manage farmland and are interested in lower property taxes, this informative Q&A will help clarify what qualifies
Beaverton Marsh Trail update open house
||| FROM CONSERVATION LAND BANK ||| Join Conservation Land Bank staff and commissioners at the Mullis Community Senior Center on Wednesday, March 4, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, for an open house about the Beaverton Marsh
No Place Like Loam | Four season gardening in the maritime northwest
A Guide to Growing Year Round: Part 1 ||| NO PLACE LIKE LOAM by ALEX TAMAYA-WOLF ||| What to Plant in February in 40–45°F Soil My grandparents kept a garden before the war. It was
Letter to Editor | Clark Well & Treatment Plant
Episode 1: History and questions that remain ||| FROM CORY HARRINGTON ||| Eastsound Water’s General Manager recently released the first installment of a new email series titled “The New Clark Well & Treatment Plant.” The
SE winds headed our way through Sunday afternoon
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Seattle WA 942 PM PST Sat Feb 21 2026 San Juan County- Including Friday Harbor 942 PM PST Sat Feb 21 2026
Butterflies Event at Odd Fellows Hall
Sunday, February 22nd, 2:00-3:30pm at Odd Fellows Hall ||| FROM DIDIER GINCIG for ODD FELLOWS HALL ||| Everyone seems to have heard about the Island Marble; but what about the Ochre Ringlet and Propertius Duskywing? Discover
Larsen joins entire WA delegation in supporting governor’s request for major disaster declaration to unlock individual assistance for WA flooding victims
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF U.S. REP. RICK LARSEN ||| WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Rick Larsen (WA-02) joined Washington state’s entire congressional delegation in a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to approve Governor Bob Ferguson’s request for
Letter to Editor | Decatur (who paid?) It’s not outright DECEPTION, but…..
||| FROM RIKKI SWIN |||
Salish Current | Contagious cancer poses possible threat to Salish Sea clams
Researchers monitor rare transmissible cancers spreading through two local species. ||| FROM THE SALISH CURRENT ||| What if cancer, already one of the deadliest diseases known to the animal kingdom, suddenly became contagious? The
