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
Guest Opinion | Will pigs fly? Will wishes become fishes?
||| FROM ED CHANEY ||| All quiet on the Pacific Northwest salmon front. Tomorrow, December 1, the Biden Administration reportedly will release a statement on the federal strategy for dealing with the disaster that has
CWR’s Dave Ellifrit launches new blog: Blow by Blow
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Excerpt from Dave Ellifrit’s new BLOG Blow by Blow / A step-by-step account of a CWR orca encounter: “CWR’s photo-ID encounters usually start with us being notified in
The price of paper
Coastal communities around the world contend with the toxic legacies of pulp and paper mills. ||| FROM HAKAI MAGAZINE ||| REPRINT AT REQUEST OF ORCASONIAN READER Opened in 1957, this pulp and paper mill
Weather Service warns of high winds today, tonight
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| High Wind Warning Description * What, East to Southeast winds 30 to 40 MPH with Gusts Up to 55 MPH Expected. * Where, San Juan County, Western Whatcom County,
DOH unveils free teacher resources to bring public health and climate change data into classrooms
Innovative lessons use state data to teach students about issues impacting their communities ||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) announces new educational resources created to introduce
Celebrate Indian Island virtually December 8
||| FROM RUSSEL BARSH for KWIAHT ||| I will present Kwiaht's 2022 annual monitoring and research report on Fishing Bay and Indian Island by Zoom on Thursday December 8 at 4:30 p.m., including time for
SJI Sculpture Park partners to plant Sequoias, Redwoods
||| FROM KRISTEN ARNIM for SAN JUAN ISLANDS SCULPTURE PARK ||| PropagationNation and the San Juan Islands Sculpture Park (SJISP) have joined forces to plant 6 Giant Sequoias and 14 Coast Redwoods at the sculpture
People in Portland planted trees. Decades later, a stunning pattern emerged
||| FROM SCIENCE ALERT ||| Money may not grow from trees, but something even better does. In a new study led by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, researchers found that each tree
Types of killer whale | Guide to killer whale types
||| FROM EXPLORE OUR PLANET ||| Killer whales (orca) ignite some debate when it comes to classification. There are known to be eleven different types of killer whale in our oceans, each with specific behaviours,
Learn how we can conserve Indian Island with Kwiaht presentation
The sheer number of feet on the beach and barnacle-encrusted boulders has become unsustainable ||| FROM RUSSEL BARSH for KWIAHT ||| Conservation research laboratory Kwiaht will host a virtual annual report on the changing Indian
SJC plans to relocate Public Works operations on Lopez
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County is entering the planning stages of an exciting project on Lopez Island. County Council has directed staff to develop a plan to relocate Public Works
In a first, rich countries agree to pay for climate damage in poor nations
||| FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ||| SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — Negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed for the first time to establish a fund that would help poor, vulnerable countries cope with climate
To save salmon, U.S. approves largest dam removal in history
||| FROM REUTERS ||| A U.S. agency seeking to restore habitat for endangered fish gave final approval on Thursday to decommission four dams straddling the California-Oregon border, the largest dam removal undertaking in U.S. history.
The Art of the Crevice Garden presentation now available online
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW !!! PAUL SPRIGGS Cracks & Crevices: The Art of the Crevice Garden In case you missed the program on November 9th or would like to
EPA reestablishes federal water pollution standards for Washington
||| FROM BILL DUNBAR for ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ||| SEATTLE (November 15, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule to reestablish federal water quality standards for the State of Washington.
