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
In his memory, Ken Balcomb’s whale research work will go on
||| FROM HOWARD GARRETT for CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Ken Balcomb, the Center for Whale Research founder, respected orca researcher, and my beloved brother passed on December 15, 2022. Ken and I shared a
Extreme winter weather leads to countywide 10-hour power outage
||| FROM KRISTA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| Just before 5 pm on Thursday, December 22, as temperatures dipped into the low 20s, a mainland electrical feeder serving San Juan County lost
Melting snow is stormwater – protect your property and drains
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| With high levels of expected snow melt (stormwater), San Juan County’s Public Works Department encourages residents to be proactive in monitoring and reporting potential blockages to culverts and
Winter Storm Warning | Brrrrrr again (still)
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| Winter Storm Warning * What, for the Winter storm Warning, Heavy Mixed Precipitation Expected. total Snow Accumulations of Up to Two Inches and Ice Accumulations of Up to Two
WINTER STORM WATCH: WIND CHILLS MAY BE 10 BELOW
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| * WHAT...For the Wind Chill Advisory, very cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 10 below zero. For the Winter Storm Watch, heavy mixed precipitation possible. Total snow
Urgent from National Weather Service | How many ‘Rs’ are in Brrrrr?
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Seattle WA 350 PM PST Tue Dec 20 2022 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING (TUESDAY) TO
Happy holiday wishes from an Orcas Garden Club poet
||| FROM ORCAS GARDEN CLUB ||| ‘Twas December on Orcas, when all through the isle Not a green thing was growing, or would be for a while The gardening catalogs were marked up with care
Nearly every country signs on to a sweeping deal to protect nature
Roughly 190 nations, aiming to halt a dangerous decline in biodiversity, agreed to preserve 30 percent of the planet’s land and seas. The United States is not officially a participant. ||| FROM THE NEW YORK
Let it snow? Sure, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| Description * What, Heavy Snow Expected. total Snow Accumulations of 2 to 8 Inches. * Where, Portions of Northwest and West Central washington. * When, from 7pm this Evening
Heavy snow on the way?
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| * WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 6 inches possible. * WHERE...San Juan County, including Stuart Island, Waldron Island, Orcas Island, San Juan Island, Lopez Island,
Orcas Islander writes of being alone on a SUP in the Arctic
||| FROM 48NORTH.COM ||| She was surrounded by women. They all sat on the bench at the front of the community hall in the center of Paulatuk in the Inuvik region of Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Sustainable Tourism Management Plan has been updated
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, ORCASONIAN OP-ED REPORTER ||| After a busy 2022 of surveys and public meetings, the process for developing the Sustainable Tourism Management Plan (STMP) has shifted its focus. As described by Kendra
Court recommends halting Alaska’s unsustainable harvest to protect Wild Chinook, Southern Resident Killer Whales
||| FROM EMMA HELVERSON for WILD FISH CONSERVANCY ||| December 16, 2022— In a massive international and coast-wide decision for wild Chinook and Southern Resident killer whale recovery, Seattle’s federal Court issued a landmark opinion
San Juan County is prepared for inclement weather – and you should be, too
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County is pleased to provide the public with a reminder of Public Works services, priorities, and mission during inclement weather. Additionally, there are several ways in
Inslee issues emergency proclamation for a series of severe autumn storms
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee issued an emergency proclamation today related to a series of severe autumn storms that occurred between Nov. 3 and Nov. 8 in Clallam, Cowlitz, Grays
