A reminder to the com­mu­ni­ty about the San Juan Island Gar­den Club Gar­den Plan­ning Party/Meeting Tues­day at the Mullis Cen­ter begin­ning at 10:00 a.m. There will be plant­i­ngs of kale, sweet peas, flow­ers, etc., cat­a­logs, mag­a­zines, con­tain­ers, books, pic­ture frames, pho­tos, etc., and advis­ers for plan­ning your gar­den and advice for some gar­den prob­lems all in the  Con­tin­ue Reading

  The Land Bank is excit­ed to announce an addi­tion­al 800 feet of pub­lic access to beach and tide­lands locat­ed west of Bayshore Road on the San Juan Chan­nel side of Fish­er­man Bay on Lopez Island. This acqui­si­tion would not have been pos­si­ble with­out the sup­port of the Sun­set Acres Own­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, a res­i­den­tial com­mu­ni­ty on  Con­tin­ue Reading

The trails and open spaces on the island are pop­u­lar with both res­i­dents and vis­i­tors, but they don’t just appear out of nowhere. Where does the mon­ey come from to keep them open? What can mem­bers of the pub­lic do to help? This is the sec­ond in a series of reports by Louise Dus­trude try­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Islands Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict and Mas­ter Gar­den­ers Foun­da­tion of SJC col­lab­o­rate to bring you the annu­al Native Plant Sale and Expo. This year we are offer­ing 16 species of native trees and shrubs. Come join us! Refresh­ments Ven­dors Edu­ca­tion­al exhibits Spe­cial day-of plant sales! Sat­ur­day March 11 from 9:00 am til noon at the Fairgrounds

Aaron Shep­ard shares this pho­to of the M/V Sal­ish sail­ing into a rain­bow. This was shot yes­ter­day morn­ing. Thanks for shar­ing Aaron!

The trails and open spaces on the island are pop­u­lar with both res­i­dents and vis­i­tors, but they don’t just appear out of nowhere. Where does the mon­ey come from to keep them open? What can mem­bers of the pub­lic do to help? This is the first in a series of reports by Louise Dus­trude try­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

Hap­py Valen­tines Day Oakies! Look­ing for­ward to shar­ing our love of Oaks this Sun­day atop Cady Moun­tain! Tan­ja is back on island Fri­day, but won’t be able to check email, so please be sure to alert Thom if you’re com­ing this Sun­day. Just RSVP at the email shown below to con­nect. When? Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 19 10:00am to 2:00pm  Con­tin­ue Reading

An invi­ta­tion from the Land Bank… Please join us with your vision for the future of Mount Grant. This is just the first step in the plan­ning process and we want to be sure to start with input from the com­mu­ni­ty: What kinds of trails and uses do you want to see? How often should the  Con­tin­ue Reading

WSU Exten­sion Forestry offers class for Wood­land Own­ers Wood­land own­ers can build skills for car­ing for their trees by tak­ing Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­si­ty Exten­sion Forestry’s For­est Stew­ard­ship Coached Plan­ning course. This course teach­es own­ers of wood­ed prop­er­ty how to assess their trees, avoid insect and dis­ease prob­lems, enhance wildlife habi­tat, improve wood qual­i­ty, reduce fire  Con­tin­ue Reading

Grif­fin Bay Book­store, in Col­lab­o­ra­tion With The San Juan Island Library and The San Juan Preser­va­tion Trust presents: TIDES: The Sci­ence and Spir­it of the Ocean By Jonathan White Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 19, 7:00 pm San Juan Island Library 1010 Guard Street Expert mariner and marine con­ser­va­tion­ist Jonathan White’s love for the sea is life­long. He grew up div­ing, sail­ing and fish­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

For Feb­ru­ary, the Fam­i­ly Nature Club is pro­mot­ing Nature Walk: Birds Join Shona Aitken from Wolf Hol­low and become cit­i­zen sci­en­tists by par­tic­i­pat­ing in a glob­al bird study. Count­ing birds is a fun, free, fam­i­­ly-friend­­ly way to dis­cov­er and help the birds in your com­mu­ni­ty. Meet at the West­side Lake park­ing lot, which is locat­ed on the  Con­tin­ue Reading

This is shared with you from The Town of Fri­day Harbor/San Juan Coun­ty Depart­ment of Emer­gency Man­age­ment… A swarm of eight small earth­quakes hap­pened near San Juan Island on Jan­u­ary 29th & 30th. All of the quakes were locat­ed in San Juan Chan­nel, rough­ly between Jones Island and Min­er­al Point on San Juan Island. The  Con­tin­ue Reading

Here’s a nice panora­ma pho­to of Spring Street from Kevin Holmes. Thanks Kevin! To see the full size image, right-click here and choose “Open link in new win­dow” (and then you might have to click the image there again to see it full size). 

Over 150 peo­ple came to San Juan Coun­ty Park on MLK day to oppose the Kinder Mor­gan Trans Moun­tain Pipeline project. If the pipeline is allowed as pro­ceed as pro­posed it will increase the tanker ship­ping in Haro Straits from 5 tankers a month to 34 tankers and three barges per month. This increase in the  Con­tin­ue Reading

Okay Oakies — the weath­er has turned favor­able and the ground has soft­ened to make work on the moun­tain plau­si­ble! This Sun­day’s plans are to pick up where we left off in 2016: the con­tin­u­a­tion of cage clean­ing, as well as prun­ing the saplings with­in them. And, with luck, a lit­tle this­tle and black­ber­ry removal  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Coastal Obser­va­tion and Seabird Sur­vey Team (COASST) will deliv­er two free train­ing ses­sions: one focused on beached birds and one focused on marine debris. The Beached Bird train­ing will be held in East­sound, WA on Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 28 and the Marine Debris train­ing will be held in Fri­day Har­bor, WA on Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 29. COASST  Con­tin­ue Reading