We’re not the only ones with a salmon crunch….the numbers of King salmon are drastically down to the North…here’s more.

As we watch them & they watch us, is interspecies communication possible? Caroline Grauman passes along this article from the New York Times.

Ace whalewatcher & killer whale photographer Monika Wieland saw minke whales this week off the west side & posted them in her blog – here they are – check them out!

That’s a common murre that Jim Maya photographed over the weekend….

Almost everywhere I go off-island, most folks don’t seem to have heard that farmed salmon are a problem. A huge problem. Not just for the killer whales (why would you want to deplete their salmon stocks on purpose?!?) but for humans as well. One of the more articulate folks in the farmed salmon discussion campaigning  Continue Reading

Almost everywhere I go off-island, most folks don’t seem to have heard that farmed salmon are a problem. A huge problem. Not just for the killer whales (why would you want to deplete their salmon stocks on purpose?!?) but for humans as well. One of the more articulate folks in the farmed salmon discussion campaigning  Continue Reading

In our ongoing series about folks who help out at Lime Kiln State Park, today we present Shirley – she answered the questions we gave her so you could find out a bit more about her: Name: Shirley Zyph Number of years visitin &/or living in the San Juan archipelago: 2 Occupation in your real,  Continue Reading

There’s going to be a public forum on the CAO this week on Tuesday at FHHS – Gordy Peterson sent this along for me to share with you: San Juan County’s controversial Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) has caught the attention of some influential and powerful citizen’s advocacy groups around Washington State. Several distinguished guests from  Continue Reading

I was gearing up to hear Kevin tonight at the Whale Museum, as part of the WM’s summer lecture series, but he’s getting over a medical situation & can’t come (here’s more about that, from the Bellingham Herald.) The lecture is still happening, though, and people who care about the direction of protection of Puget  Continue Reading

I was gearing up to hear Kevin tonight at the Whale Museum, as part of the WM’s summer lecture series, but he’s getting over a medical situation & can’t come (here’s more about that, from the Bellingham Herald.) The lecture is still happening, though, and people who care about the direction of protection of Puget  Continue Reading

The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord Nelson, former governor of Wisconsin, founder of Earth Day

Jim Maya reported this was a photo he took yesterday shot in the fog, of L7 – he and Jeanne Hyde id’d this as L& because you can see the notch on the dorsal fin….

Good news – the Land Bank is getting funds to help with Judd Cove, over on our sister-island Orcas. Here’s more from the Land Bank’s Judy Cumming: Public Agencies Work to Expand and Restore Land Bank’s Judd Cove Preserve The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office announced this week that the San Juan County Land  Continue Reading

Sea Shepherd’s Traci Walter tells me that KING5 had a story about the Friday Harbor-based group – here’s more (click here to see the video.)

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option…they will become a necessity. Fujio Cho, President of Toyota Motors, 2004

One of my great friends, Jerry Gentemann, writes from Tokyo that the answer to reducing our energy consumption is right under our noses (and as we’ll find over the next century, includes using the free solar power just out the window). There already are people on the island working to re-write neighborhood covenants & getting  Continue Reading