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 | Thoughts on litter funding
||| FROM WILLIAM THOMPSON (AKA THE ROAD GUY) ||| I've been removing litter from Orcas roads on pretty much a daily basis for twenty years. It's my way of honoring the privilege of living on
Lekanoff wraps up a successful 2003 Legislative session
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. DEBRA LEKANOFF ||| Happy Fantastic Friday! It’s hard to believe we’ve finished the 2023 legislative session! I want to take a moment to thank you for your engagement and
Landmark legal victory ending overharvest marks turning point for SRKW, wild chinook recovery
||| FROM ELMA HELVERSON for WILD FISH CONSERVANCY ||| Yesterday, in an international, coastwide environmental victory, Seattle federal Court issued a landmark order halting the overharvest of Chinook salmon in Southeast Alaska that has persisted
301 volunteers made the Spring Great Islands Clean-up a success
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County would like to thank the 301 dedicated volunteers who collected 4,574 pounds of litter on Shaw, Orcas, San Juan, Stuart, Decatur, Sucia, and Lopez Islands
Earthrise | Healing nature
||| EARTHRISE BY JAY KIMBALL ||| Some years ago, I struggled with mild depression, fueled by delayed grief over the loss of my sister to breast cancer at the too-young age of 43. With the
Consultant sought to update Critical Areas Ordinances
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Department of Community Development (DCD) seeks a qualified consultant to review and update Best Available Science (BAS) and write an update of the Critical Areas
Safe? Nutritious? Local food science challenges
||| FROM RUSSEL BARSH for KWIAHT ||| Growing, harvesting, and eating locally is gaining momentum in the islands. As islanders add more local plants and animals to their diets; break ground for new gardens, farms
Green Crab community science opportunity
Calling all community scientists, volunteers, shoreline landowners, and beachgoers! ||| FROM JESS NEWLEY for FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ||| The European green crab is a hardy and voracious predator native to Western Europe and
Coming Soon: Master Gardeners spring plant sale
||| FROM MO SLOANE for SJ MASTER GARDENERS ||| Healthy herbs, tomato and pepper starts, and locally grown perennials need new homes! Perennials include both natives and non-natives adapted to many different garden environments, including
Another opportunity to partake in a SJI Sculpture Park bird walk
||| FROM KRISTEN ARNIM for SJI SCULPTURE PARK ||| Join us at the San Juan Islands Sculpture Park on Wednesday, May 3 from 8-10 a.m. for our monthly bird walk with avid birder, Tyler Davis,
Our current Noctiluca bloom is early in the season, but harmless to humans
||| FROM RUSSEL BARSH for KWIAHT ||| I just got off our boat; we were sampling plankton around Waldron. The "tomato soup" blooms are Noctiluca scintillans, a largely harmless dinoflagellate. Noctiluca blooms often give way
You’re invited to join Port in removing noxious weeds, invasive species next month
||| FROM KIM KIMPLE for PORT OF ORCAS ||| The Port of Orcas will be holding two work parties for the purpose of removing noxious weeds and invasive species. On Saturday, May 13 and on
San Juan County’s annual Hazardous Waste Round-Ups now scheduled
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s hazardous waste round-up collection event is our community’s once-yearly opportunity to legally and responsibly dispose of poisonous, flammable, corrosive or other hazardous chemicals. “Proper disposal
Guest Opinion | Rep. Ramel strongly supports OI EV Charging Project
||| FROM ALEX RAMEL, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ||| via Orcasonian reader I am writing to express my strong support for the Orcas Island EV Charging Project which was submitted by the Port of Orcas for
It’s a small world, this Earth of ours
||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| Earth Day is an opportunity to honor this remarkable world, our home, the blue planet. The Earth Day Orcas event combines the forces of dozens of groups, artists,
