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
Turtleback Mountain Preserve temporary trail closures
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County's Conservation Land Bank will implement temporary trail closures on Turtleback Mountain Preserve during June and July to accommodate the installation of nineteen road culverts. In
Hawaii lends a helping hand In Pacific Northwest
The clam garden built by the Swinomish Indians with the help of people from Hawaii and elsewhere provides lessons for our own cultural practices. ||| FROM HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT ||| forwarded by SJ Makers Guild
Food hub expands availability for online orders
||| FROM KATHRYN WHEELER for SAN JUAN ISLANDS FOOD HUB ||| The San Juan Islands Food Hub, launched in 2020 by a group of passionate local agrarians, is a place of connection. The Food Hub
Depoe Bay OR is latest community to proclaim support for SRKWs
||| FROM KRISS KEVORKIAN for LEGAL RIGHTS OF THE SALISH SEA ||| [On June 6], the Mayor and City Council Members of the City of Depoe Bay, OR, signed a proclamation describing the City of
World’s largest single-masted sailing yacht stops by Orcas
"Because if you wait long enough on Orcas, everything will come to you." - an Orcas islander ||| BY LIN MCNULTY, EDITOR ||| I like that I am able to sit and wait for the
Sign up now for Whale Museum’s Marine Naturalist Training Program
||| FROM TRACIE MERRELL for WHALE MUSEUM ||| The Whale Museum’s Marine Naturalist Training Program is a high-quality, immersive experience that leaves graduates qualified as a regional professional or volunteer naturalist. The Summer 2023 Program
Homegrowers: Call Food Bank before you harvest
||| FROM RICK RHOADS for ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| It’s growing season! Each year dozens of you harvest more than you can consume, and each year thoughtful growers share their harvest with friends and
In search of Orcas litterers; this time it’s the lipsticked coffee drinker
||| FROM WILLIAM THOMPSON -- THE ROAD GUY ||| For two months now, a morning coffee drinker who gets her coffee at Orcas Hotel, tosses her lipstick stained cup out the window as she approaches
San Juan County’s fire danger level increases to MODERATE
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Effective Monday June 5, 2023, San Juan County, WA fire danger level increases to MODERATE as fuels continue to dry out. Moderate fire danger means that all fine
Early bird rates now available for upcoming Seaweed Excursions
||| FROM SAN JUAN ISLANDS MAKERS ||| Each Seaweed Excursion Experience is Unique There is so much to talk about with seaweeds—from life in the intertidal and sustainable harvesting to medicinal and nutritive properties and ocean
San Juan County celebrates new protections for endangered orca during Orca Action Month
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| June is Orca Action Month, and this year, San Juan County is joining partners around the Salish Sea to celebrate the Lasting Legacies of these sentient animals. This month,
San Juan County citizen input needed: Do you have waste tires?
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Do you have old tires you’d like to dispose of? Let the County know! San Juan County’s Solid Waste Program is assessing the waste tire disposal needs of
County to share draft report of Shoreline Cumulative Effects Evaluation
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County is conducting a Cumulative Effects Evaluation of its shorelines for the Department of Ecology. A virtual public meeting to review the draft report is scheduled
Kenmore Air to launch daily service from Friday Harbor to Victoria International
||| FROM DAVID GUDGEL, PRESIDENT, KENMORE AIR ||| SEATTLE, WA, May 22, 2023 Kenmore Air, the leading seaplane operator in the Pacific Northwest, is excited to announce the expansion of its land-based plane service from Boeing
Are these Tent Caterpillars going to kill my trees?
||| FROM KATE YTURRI for MASTER GARDENERS ||| Many of you are wondering and worrying about the black and orange tent caterpillars you see on your red alders, roses and fruit trees. The Western Tent
