Topic: Environment
New Stairway to the Beach at Cattle Point
Written on August 15, 2017 at 5:52 am, by Tim Dustrude
The most gorgeous public stairway on the island was built this summer in May and June at the Cattle Point Interpretive Area by the State Department of Natural Resources (DNR). It’s built of quarried stone, with a hemp rope handrail with lovely stainless steel stanchions, reaching from the top of the bluff to a large Continue Reading
Bees Love Blue and Violet! Visit Master Gardeners at the Fair.
Written on August 9, 2017 at 5:35 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Learn about bees at the Master Gardeners booth at the San Juan County Fair August 16 – 19… Did you know that native bees and honey bees love blue and violet flowers? Why? Plants may have evolved blue and violet flowers to be attractive to their most efficient pollinators. A bee’s eye perceives blue, violet, and Continue Reading
Work Party on Cady Mountain Preserve
Written on August 3, 2017 at 5:42 am, by Tim Dustrude
Hello Oakies and welcome August! In the words of Glenn Fry, the heat is on! Be sure to pack plenty of water and a hat – we’ll be up in Morrel and Erratic this Sunday continuing with girdling and small tree removal. When? Sunday, August 6 – 10:00am to 2:00pm RSVP required (email [email protected]). Where? Continue Reading
FHFF Local Hero Award – Dylan D’Haeze
Written on July 28, 2017 at 5:52 am, by Tim Dustrude
This is the second in a 3-part series about this year’s Friday Harbor Film Festival. See part 1 here… The Local Hero Award is presented each year to a present or former resident of the San Juan Islands who has made outstanding contributions to our quality of life, impacting people, animals, the arts, or the Continue Reading
FHFF 5th Anniversary
Written on July 27, 2017 at 5:45 am, by Tim Dustrude
This is the first in a 3-part series of this year’s Friday Harbor Film Festival… The Friday Harbor Film Festival is celebrating its 5th anniversary on November 3, 4, 5 2017. Lynn Danaher and Karen Palmer founded this important documentary film festival with a vision to share compelling documentary films that tell relevant stories that Continue Reading
Safe Shippers in the Parade
Written on June 30, 2017 at 5:44 am, by Tim Dustrude
Dear Safe Shippers (aka “Orca Protectors”), Get ready to march in solidarity for the orcas in the Friday Harbor 4th of July Parade! Safe Shippers will be joined by 15 other local organizations who care about the protection of our Southern Resident Killer Whales and our shared Salish Sea home. Let’s show how much we Continue Reading
Mount Ben Preserve Public Meeting
Written on June 29, 2017 at 5:49 am, by Tim Dustrude
Public Comment Invited on DRAFT Stewardship and Management Plan for Mount Ben Preserve Thursday, June 29, 5:30pm at Mullis Community Senior Center The Land Bank is inviting public comment on the DRAFT Mount Ben Preserve Stewardship and Management Plan (PDF). We value public input in helping guide the long term care of our County’s conservation Continue Reading
Orca Protectors
Written on June 26, 2017 at 5:47 am, by Tim Dustrude
In this year’s Fourth of July parade in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, sponsored by the San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce, 16 organizations — each dedicated to the protection of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale — will be marching together showing their shared support of the orcas. Our region’s resident orcas — Continue Reading
One Place, Many Histories: Thunderbirds Raised Her
Written on June 23, 2017 at 5:48 am, by Tim Dustrude
The San Juan Island Grange Lecture Series, in conjunction with the Setting Sun Institute (Lummi), Students for the Salish Sea (WWU), and Whiteswan Environmental (WE) is honored to host an evening of music, food, and conversation with the remarkable vocal group WAGEEYAH-I-CHX-IYABAE, Thunderbirds Raised Her. Thunderbirds Raised Her are sisters Billie Lynn Jefferson, Danielle Kili Continue Reading
Island Girl Recycled Crayons
Written on June 22, 2017 at 5:54 am, by Tim Dustrude
Eleven year-old Meg wants your end-of-the-school-year broken crayons for her recycled crayon business, Island Girl Recycled Crayons (IGRC). This is the second year of her project. Last year IGRC created an opportunity for another local student to sell her products at the IGRC table at the holiday market, and giving both a creative entrepreneurial experience. Continue Reading
Shifting Shoreline Workshops
Written on June 21, 2017 at 5:51 am, by Tim Dustrude
Understanding Sea Level Rise in the San Juan Islands The notion of climate change driven by human emissions has been with us for a long time. In 1896, Svante Arrhenius published a paper from Denmark that applied basic chemical and physical principles to demonstrate that humans, by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, could change Continue Reading
Shifting Shorelines Workshops
Written on June 16, 2017 at 5:40 am, by Tim Dustrude
Shifting Shorelines Sea Level Rise Workshops – June 29-30 The San Juan Islands are one of the most beautiful places in the world. And increasingly vulnerable to more frequent and extreme storms that will affect the waterfront. But with good planning, we can protect the people and places we love. Attend a workshop near you Continue Reading
A Banner Day for Island Families
Written on June 7, 2017 at 5:23 pm, by Tim Dustrude
by Theresa Simendinger In collaboration; the SJ Trails Committee, and Island Rec sponsored the great idea from the Land Bank and the National Park Service of a family event, hiking out to Briggs Lake, for the Family Nature Club on June 4th. On a bright spring-like day, youth leader Ava Martin, 11, and friends set Continue Reading
Nature Conservancy Photo of the Month
Written on June 7, 2017 at 4:37 pm, by Tim Dustrude
Local photographer extraordinaire Chris Teren is the Nature Conservancy’s Photographer of the Month. Check out Chris’ awesome photo of the Aurora Borealis and read some background on his photography career… “Right after college, I had a rough break up. I was breaking up with the Rocky Mountains. I loved them dearly, and they loved me Continue Reading
SJI Nat’l Monument Earns Gold Standard Designation
Written on June 6, 2017 at 5:50 am, by Tim Dustrude
The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics Names 10 Exemplary Outdoor Areas Across the Country to Receive New Gold Standard Designation The Gold Standard Sites Help Achieve the Organization’s Goal of ‘Leave No Trace in Every Park’ The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics today announced 10 public land recreation areas across the Continue Reading
Call for Artists
Written on June 3, 2017 at 5:44 am, by Tim Dustrude
Deadline Extended – Call for Artists: Design a License Plate for the San Juan Islands! The Terrestrial Managers Group and the Madrona Institute are kicking off their San Juan Islands Specialty License Plate Design Initiative with a contest! The initiative encourages the public to help create and select a specialty license plate that will generate Continue Reading
New Stairway to the Beach at Cattle Point
Written on August 15, 2017 at 5:52 am, by Tim Dustrude
The most gorgeous public stairway on the island was built this summer in May and June at the Cattle Point Interpretive Area by the State Department of Natural Resources (DNR). It’s built of quarried stone, with a hemp rope handrail with lovely stainless steel stanchions, reaching from the top of the bluff to a large Continue Reading
Bees Love Blue and Violet! Visit Master Gardeners at the Fair.
Written on August 9, 2017 at 5:35 am, by Peggy Sue McRae
Learn about bees at the Master Gardeners booth at the San Juan County Fair August 16 – 19… Did you know that native bees and honey bees love blue and violet flowers? Why? Plants may have evolved blue and violet flowers to be attractive to their most efficient pollinators. A bee’s eye perceives blue, violet, and Continue Reading
Work Party on Cady Mountain Preserve
Written on August 3, 2017 at 5:42 am, by Tim Dustrude
Hello Oakies and welcome August! In the words of Glenn Fry, the heat is on! Be sure to pack plenty of water and a hat – we’ll be up in Morrel and Erratic this Sunday continuing with girdling and small tree removal. When? Sunday, August 6 – 10:00am to 2:00pm RSVP required (email [email protected]). Where? Continue Reading
FHFF Local Hero Award – Dylan D’Haeze
Written on July 28, 2017 at 5:52 am, by Tim Dustrude
This is the second in a 3-part series about this year’s Friday Harbor Film Festival. See part 1 here… The Local Hero Award is presented each year to a present or former resident of the San Juan Islands who has made outstanding contributions to our quality of life, impacting people, animals, the arts, or the Continue Reading
FHFF 5th Anniversary
Written on July 27, 2017 at 5:45 am, by Tim Dustrude
This is the first in a 3-part series of this year’s Friday Harbor Film Festival… The Friday Harbor Film Festival is celebrating its 5th anniversary on November 3, 4, 5 2017. Lynn Danaher and Karen Palmer founded this important documentary film festival with a vision to share compelling documentary films that tell relevant stories that Continue Reading
Safe Shippers in the Parade
Written on June 30, 2017 at 5:44 am, by Tim Dustrude
Dear Safe Shippers (aka “Orca Protectors”), Get ready to march in solidarity for the orcas in the Friday Harbor 4th of July Parade! Safe Shippers will be joined by 15 other local organizations who care about the protection of our Southern Resident Killer Whales and our shared Salish Sea home. Let’s show how much we Continue Reading
Mount Ben Preserve Public Meeting
Written on June 29, 2017 at 5:49 am, by Tim Dustrude
Public Comment Invited on DRAFT Stewardship and Management Plan for Mount Ben Preserve Thursday, June 29, 5:30pm at Mullis Community Senior Center The Land Bank is inviting public comment on the DRAFT Mount Ben Preserve Stewardship and Management Plan (PDF). We value public input in helping guide the long term care of our County’s conservation Continue Reading
Orca Protectors
Written on June 26, 2017 at 5:47 am, by Tim Dustrude
In this year’s Fourth of July parade in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, sponsored by the San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce, 16 organizations — each dedicated to the protection of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale — will be marching together showing their shared support of the orcas. Our region’s resident orcas — Continue Reading
One Place, Many Histories: Thunderbirds Raised Her
Written on June 23, 2017 at 5:48 am, by Tim Dustrude
The San Juan Island Grange Lecture Series, in conjunction with the Setting Sun Institute (Lummi), Students for the Salish Sea (WWU), and Whiteswan Environmental (WE) is honored to host an evening of music, food, and conversation with the remarkable vocal group WAGEEYAH-I-CHX-IYABAE, Thunderbirds Raised Her. Thunderbirds Raised Her are sisters Billie Lynn Jefferson, Danielle Kili Continue Reading
Island Girl Recycled Crayons
Written on June 22, 2017 at 5:54 am, by Tim Dustrude
Eleven year-old Meg wants your end-of-the-school-year broken crayons for her recycled crayon business, Island Girl Recycled Crayons (IGRC). This is the second year of her project. Last year IGRC created an opportunity for another local student to sell her products at the IGRC table at the holiday market, and giving both a creative entrepreneurial experience. Continue Reading
Shifting Shoreline Workshops
Written on June 21, 2017 at 5:51 am, by Tim Dustrude
Understanding Sea Level Rise in the San Juan Islands The notion of climate change driven by human emissions has been with us for a long time. In 1896, Svante Arrhenius published a paper from Denmark that applied basic chemical and physical principles to demonstrate that humans, by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, could change Continue Reading
Shifting Shorelines Workshops
Written on June 16, 2017 at 5:40 am, by Tim Dustrude
Shifting Shorelines Sea Level Rise Workshops – June 29-30 The San Juan Islands are one of the most beautiful places in the world. And increasingly vulnerable to more frequent and extreme storms that will affect the waterfront. But with good planning, we can protect the people and places we love. Attend a workshop near you Continue Reading
A Banner Day for Island Families
Written on June 7, 2017 at 5:23 pm, by Tim Dustrude
by Theresa Simendinger In collaboration; the SJ Trails Committee, and Island Rec sponsored the great idea from the Land Bank and the National Park Service of a family event, hiking out to Briggs Lake, for the Family Nature Club on June 4th. On a bright spring-like day, youth leader Ava Martin, 11, and friends set Continue Reading
Nature Conservancy Photo of the Month
Written on June 7, 2017 at 4:37 pm, by Tim Dustrude
Local photographer extraordinaire Chris Teren is the Nature Conservancy’s Photographer of the Month. Check out Chris’ awesome photo of the Aurora Borealis and read some background on his photography career… “Right after college, I had a rough break up. I was breaking up with the Rocky Mountains. I loved them dearly, and they loved me Continue Reading
SJI Nat’l Monument Earns Gold Standard Designation
Written on June 6, 2017 at 5:50 am, by Tim Dustrude
The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics Names 10 Exemplary Outdoor Areas Across the Country to Receive New Gold Standard Designation The Gold Standard Sites Help Achieve the Organization’s Goal of ‘Leave No Trace in Every Park’ The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics today announced 10 public land recreation areas across the Continue Reading
Call for Artists
Written on June 3, 2017 at 5:44 am, by Tim Dustrude
Deadline Extended – Call for Artists: Design a License Plate for the San Juan Islands! The Terrestrial Managers Group and the Madrona Institute are kicking off their San Juan Islands Specialty License Plate Design Initiative with a contest! The initiative encourages the public to help create and select a specialty license plate that will generate Continue Reading