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
Coming soon: Master Gardeners spring plant sale
||| FROM MO SLOANE for MASTER GARDENERS ||| Healthy veggie starts and locally grown perennial landscaping plants need new homes! Like last year, our sale is online at SpringSale.org. The sale begins Wednesday, May 5
Look up! There’s something to see up there besides pewter-tinted skies this weekend
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| The National Weather Service, in a seemingly routine release, is forecasting warm, 70-degree weather, possibly followed up by 80 degrees on Sunday, which is pleasurable news as we
The Snake River in the Pacific Northwest is the nation’s ‘most endangered river’ of 2021
||| FROM USA TODAY ||| The Snake River in the Pacific Northwest is the nation's most endangered river of 2021, according to a report released Tuesday by the environmental advocacy group American Rivers. © Jesse
Inslee signs bill to place Billy Frank statue in National Statuary Hall
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee signed HB 1372 today, which will place a statue of tribal leader Billy Frank Jr. in the National Statuary Hall. Inslee was joined by
Witnessed, recorded: More than 50 Orca hunted, killed blue whale off Australian coast
This is one of just a handful of times that orca have ever been recorded killing a blue whale As many as 70 orcas cooperatively hunted, killed and ate a roughly 50-foot long blue whale
Here’s the San Juan County Land Bank April 2021 meeting agenda
||| FROM TANJA WILLIAMSON for SAN JUAN COUNTY LAND BANK ||| A patch of uncommon native cactus discovered near the Turtleback shoreline, discovered during a monitoring outing. The San Juan County Land Bank
Add amateur radio to your disaster preparedness toolkit
||| FROM GREG HANCOCK for SJC AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY ||| Has COVID got you thinking about what you can do to prepare for future emergencies and disasters, like the inevitable Cascadia Subduction Zone mega-quake? We
Friends of San Juans achieves victory for southern resident orca in court
||| FROM LOVEL PRATT for FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ||| On April 6, Whatcom County Superior Court Judge David Freeman delivered a court victory both to Friends of the San Juans and to the
NAS Whidbey wraps up second sound monitoring period
||| FROM MICHAEL WELDING for WHIDBEY NAVAL AIR STATION ||| NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - The Navy completed its second week of real-time sound monitoring at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island as
County takes thoughtful approach to North Beach trees
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, theORCASONIAN OP-ED REPORTER ||| Back in January, concerns were raised about the condition of trees – mostly mature maples –along North Beach Road across the street from April’s Grove. One group
Six people in Washington sickened by Salmonella illness linked to wild songbirds
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Six Washington residents have been sickened as part of a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, believed to be linked to wild songbirds, particularly Pine Siskins. The Centers for Disease Control
New podcast examines endangered southern resident killer whales
‘Pod of Orcas’ is a podcast by local nonprofit, SeaDoc Society ||| FROM SEADOC SOCIETY ||| Among the many live events that were wiped away by the pandemic was the SeaDoc Society’s live Ocean Night
Huge dam demolition could save salmon on the edge of extinction
Spring-run Chinook salmon, critical to Indigenous fishers along the Klamath River, are in steep decline. But two recent developments may offer a path to their recovery. ||| FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ||| When Karuk tribal member
Check out Wolf Hollow’s upcoming photo competition
||| FROM SHONA AITKEN for WOLF HOLLOW ||| We are lucky to live in a place where there is so much wildlife all around us. During Earth Month in April, Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Studies shed light on why dams matter to salmon and orca
||| FROM KITSAP SUN ||| There is something inexplicable that draws us to orcas. The large dolphins — often referred to as killer whales — inhabit every ocean on Earth and have captured the attention
