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
News Brief | Scientists explain mysterious Orca boat attacks
||| FROM NEW SCIENTIST |||
Beaverton Marsh Trail Update II | Open House September 2
Plans for the grant-funded project to develop a structure across the marsh are complete ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Conservation Land Bank staff and Commissioners are ready to share the *final* design for
News Brief | ‘Roadless Rule’ repeal would affect 2M acres of Washington forest land
||| FROM KING-TV SEATTLE ||| The Trump Administration is paving the way to increase logging and road construction in national forests, including two million acres of land in Washington alone, in a move that would
2026 Fall Native Wildflower Sale
Don’t miss this opportunity to purchase locally grown wildflowers native to San Juan County ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Mark your calendar for the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank’s Fall Native Wildflower
K Pod back in the Salish Sea
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Full Encounter Report ObservBegin: 09:48 AM ObservEnd: 11:30 AM Vessel: KCB III Staff: Dave Ellifrit Other Observers: Charli Grimes, Navi Zwart, Aspen Kendrick-Cisneros, Henry Moreau-Smith Pods: K IDsEncountered:
Garden Club Presentation | Gardening with mushrooms
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, when we welcome Alex Winstead to share helpful advice for Gardening with Mushrooms in the Pacific
News Brief | Marine biologists finally found what scares orcas
And it makes no sense ||| FROM APEX PALEO |||
Prospective Critical Areas Ordinance update process
San Juan County is currently reviewing and revising its Critical Areas Ordinance. The County expects to complete the process by the end of the year. ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County
Upcoming Garden Club Event | Flower pressing workshop with Tony Suruda
Saturday, August 22nd, 2:30 pm at the Orcas Library (please note the change in time) ||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| In this workshop participants will use microwave oven presses to dry flowers and
San Juan County Conservation Land Bank farmland property proposed for sale
The Conservation Land Bank seeks a buyer who wants to continue the agricultural heritage of a 40-acre property on San Juan Island ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The San Juan County Conservation Land
Forests in potential danger as Trump admin scraps roadless rule
||| FROM NEWSWEEK ||| The Trump administration has taken a major step toward repealing one of the most significant federal forest conservation policies in the United States, arguing the decades-old rule has hindered efforts to
Gardening with mushrooms in the PNW Garden Club presentation
JOIN US AT 9:30 AM (just before the program) for social time, and feel free to bring something for the Sharing Table ||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Please join the Orcas Island Garden
News Brief | Saving old trees might save lives
||| FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ||| Many cities across the country, including New York, have been planting trees in neighborhoods where cooling shade has been sparse because of neglect in decades past. But a new
News Brief | Judge rules WA utility can take land for data center power lines
||| FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES ||| Grant County Public Utility District filed a lawsuit to condemn parts of their properties last year because their land sits in the path of a planned transmission line designed
CWR Encounter with Biggs
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Encounter Report ObservBegin: 02:36 PM ObservEnd: 03:44 PM Vessel: KCB III Staff: Michael Weiss Other Observers: Charli Grimes, Lily King, Rachel John, Aspen Kendrick-Cisneros Pods: Bigg's killer whales
