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
COASST beached bird and marine debris training coming to Mount Vernon
||| FROM THE COASTAL OBSERVATION AND SEABIRD SURVEY TEAM ||| Join the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) and help make a difference for the environment! COASST participants collect data on beach-cast carcasses of
It’s World Orca Day – A celebration of the species
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| The Center for Whale Research joins the world in celebrating all Orca ecotypes worldwide. We can all do our part to make the planet safer and more habitable
We have never ever seen this before — never ever
||| FROM NASA ||| NASA today released this first image from the new James Webb Space Telescope. Words will not suffice...
It’s official: CWR visits, photographs K Pod’s new baby
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| On July 9, we met the newest member of K Pod, K45. We received word that Southern Resident orcas were inbound from the west side of Vancouver Island,
Guest Opinion | Open letter on breaching Snake River dams
||| FROM JANET ALDERTON ||| Governor Inslee and Senator Murray, Thank-you for caring about the struggling Southern Resident Killer Whales. Thank you for your draft report about the issues surrounding breaching of the four Lower
Great White Sharks are being scared from their habitat by just two predators
||| FROM SCIENCE ALERT ||| There is no sea creature whose name inspires terror – rightly or wrongly – as much as the great white shark. With its sleek body optimized for hunting, its sharp
e-Biking to beautiful gardens on annual tour
||| BY EDEE KULPER, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| This past weekend was stunning. The clouds finally parted all day, both days, signalling the true beginning of summer for us islanders. It couldn’t have been a more perfect time
The Whale Museum is looking for volunteers
||| FROM TRACIE MERRELL for THE WHALE MUSEUM ||| The Whale Museum is holding an open house for anyone interested in volunteering with TWM’s Education Department. The open house event will be held on Monday,
2022 Garden Tour is this weekend
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| The Orcas Island Garden Club invites you to our 2022 Garden Tour on Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26. Six lovely gardens will be open from 11:00
Glenwood Inn property secured by Land Bank for permanent conservation
58-acre parcel will add to publicly accessible shoreline on Orcas Island ||| FROM TANJA WILLIAMSON for SJC CONSERVATION LAND BANK ||| The San Juan County Conservation Land Bank and the San Juan Preservation Trust jointly
Next OPALCO community solar program to launch Spring of 2023
||| FROM ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| Thanks for your interest in OPALCO's ongoing community solar program! We are making good progress on the next big project - despite pandemic delays in the supply
CWR encounters transient whale activity in Presidents Channel
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH |||
CWR captures amazing drone video of orca pod
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| We've been on the water again with whales compiling video and data for our Aerial Observation study (UAV/drone). Here is a beautiful four-minute video with J Pod.
Bowhead whales that washed up in Nunavut in 2020 were likely killed by orcas
||| FROM CBC NEWS ||| Killer whales were likely responsible for the deaths of 11 bowhead whales found washed up in 2020 by the Gulf of Boothia in central Nunavut. "We never know for sure
Island Marble Butterfly recovery plan open for public comment (updated)
||| FROM CYRUS FORMAN for SJI NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK ||| The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the availability of a draft recovery plan for the island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus) and a
