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
Island Rec, Conservation Land Bank announce new trail partnership
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Saturday, August 3, Island Rec, the Conservation Land Bank and the San Juan Preservation Trust will celebrate a short and significant new trail connection between John O. Linde
Master Gardeners answer plant questions
||| FROM DIANNE MACONDRAY for MASTER GARDENERS ||| Hopefully your garden is providing you a bountiful supply of tasty and nutritious fruits and vegetables! If not, perhaps a visit to the Master Gardeners at the
Ferry captains ask fishermen to give them space on the water
||| FROM KING-TV SEATTLE ||| Captain Russell Fee has spent 20 years at the helm of Washington State Ferries. Puget Sound is his wheelhouse, and fishing season is always an adventure. "He's right where we want
Abbreviated return time of extreme events
How many climate blows before communities start to break? ||| BY BILL MCKIBBEN on SUBSTACK ||| All week, as I’ve helped cut storm-fallen trees, a phrase has been echoing in my brain. It came from
County releases public comment analysis report for Draft Destination Management Plan
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County published a report that concludes the County’s current tourism planning efforts and analyzes the public comments submitted for the Preliminary Draft Destination Management Plan. The draft received
Rating Bureau classification for Orcas Fire protection class reduced
More volunteers needed ||| FROM CHAD KIMPLE, ACTING CHIEF for ORCAS ISLAND FIRE & RESCUE ||| The Washington Surveying and Rating Bureau (WSRB) has completed its evaluation of Orcas Island's fire protection capabilities related to
Calling local businesses and community members for Monthly Beach Cleanups at Jackson’s Beach
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Have you noticed the microplastics at Jackson Beach? These tiny bits of plastic harm our marine ecosystem, affecting forage fish, salmon, seabirds, and even killer whales. That’s why
Land Bank monthly meeting
||| FROM SJC CONSERVATION LAND BANK COMMISSION ||| The San Juan County Conservation Land Bank Commission will hold a regular monthly meeting on July 19, 2024 from 8:30am – 11:15am via Zoom. The meeting will
Transportation and climate change in the San Juan Islands
First in a series about climate change in the San Juans ||| FROM ISARA GRAECEN for LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ||| Transportation is a unique and multifaceted system that both shapes and is shaped by our
Certifier pulls sustainable recommendation for SE Alaska Fisheries to protect dwindling salmon, endangered orca
||| FROM EMMA HELVERSON for WILD FISH CONSERVANCY ||| In a groundbreaking decision, Canadian seafood certifier Ocean Wise announced they can no longer recommend salmon caught in Southeast Alaska fisheries as ‘sustainable’. The delisting responds
Sinister reason 77 whales may have washed up dead on Scots beach revealed as it emerges they were healthy
Experts have revealed the more sinister reason why a pod of 77 pilot whales may have been beached on Orkney shores ||| FROM THE SCOTTISH SUN ||| After post-mortem examinations found that the stranded whales
Nature Rx: A health and wellness walking series with the Land Bank
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Join the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank every third Thursday evening at 6:30pm, July through September, for an opportunity to spend time on Land Bank trails with local
San Juan County’s ‘wicked problem’
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, theORCASONIAN OP/ED REPORTER ||| The long wait for the release of comments to the draft San Juan Islands Destination Management Plan (SDMP) finally ended on July 8 when the results were
Copenhagen may have cracked how to get tourists to behave: Free glasses of wine and kayaking
||| FROM BUSINESS INSIDER ||| Copenhagen will launch the CopenPay initiative to reward climate-conscious tourists. The monthlong trial offers incentives such as free museum entry for green deeds like cycling. The aim is to reduce
Fires banned on DNR-protected lands
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| As of July 10, 2024, at 1:00pm, Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued a declaration banning all fires statewide on DNR protected lands. This ban extends
