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Environmental prospects look iffy in Olympia (Crosscut)
An abruptly canceled meeting, a moonlighting state
senator and the nascent Trump administration all had something to do with
killing several high-profile attempts to protect the environment and promote
clean energy before the Washington Legislature could even reach the halfway
mark in its 2017 session. Among the measures considered dead as of this week
are a push to regulate toxics in children’s electronics, a measure to provide
more charging stations for electric vehicles and steps to propel forward the
state’s transition to cleaner energy sources. All died because they failed to
make it out of a committee by the end of last week. But many major issues still
are on the table, including oil transportation safety, toxic lead exposure in
kids, and the debate over whether thousands of people who want to build rural
homes should be allowed to do so if sinking water wells to serve those homes
will hurt nearby streams and the creatures that live in them.
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Proposed Policies Could Make America Overfished Again
(Hakai Magazine)
The United States is one month into its 115th Congress
and it has already earned a reputation for dismantling environmental laws.
Rules governing methane flaring and stream protection have already bitten the
dust; a bill to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency is floating
around the House of Representatives; and the Senate is holding hearings to
overhaul the Endangered Species Act. And while Congress has so far kept its
focus terrestrial, it may soon set its sights on the nation’s main marine
fisheries law: the Magnuson-Stevens Act, often referred to as the “fish bill.”
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Making Sure Salmon Can Cross (Under) The Roads In
Washington (KUOW | EarthFix)
Steve Hinton has a pretty unusual mindset when it comes
to his job. “I try to think like a fish,” he says. That’s a crucial part of
Hinton’s job as the director of habitat restoration for the Swinomish Tribal
Community and the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe. He spends a lot of his time trying to
figure out how salmon will respond to obstacles in their way as they return
from the Puget Sound, up the Skagit River, into little creeks and streams to
spawn. One of the problems they encounter are road culverts.
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Do we have enough land for all the people moving to
Washington state? (KUOW)
Do we have enough land for all the people moving to
Washington state? There’s a bill working its way through Olympia that would
change how planners would answer that question. It’s backed by builders and
realtors. To understand the bill, you have to go back to the the Growth
Management Act of 1990. That law requires us to plan for growth. Here’s how we
do it: We look out, 20 years into the future, and estimate how many people are
going to move here. And then – we have to find room for them to live.
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With land sparse in Puget Sound, a huge win for farmers
(Crosscut)
... But there’s no questioning his relief that 284 acres of
prime farmland will be farmed instead of developed into 59 estate homes, as was
initially slated. A 30-minute drive from his existing farm near Enumclaw, the
property boasts a panoramic vista of Mount Rainier and a name he hopes will
live for generations: Mountain View Dairy. He knew the farmer who used to farm
the property and knew it was up for sale. He also knew he couldn’t afford the
asking price, a cool $2.8 million. That is where PCC Farmland Trust comes in.
Founded in 1999 by PCC Natural Markets, the trust works to secure, protect and
steward farmland in Washington, in particular chemical-free land with rich
soils. To date, the trust has conserved eight farm properties in Pierce
County’s Puyallup watershed and 18 statewide.
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State considering buying land in Skagit County (Skagit
Valley Herald)
The state Department of Fish & Wildlife is accepting
email comments on potential land acquisitions, including two in Skagit County,
until March 13. The state agency is considering acquiring land for conservation
projects in 12 areas, including near Rockport State Park and along the north
fork of the Skagit River on Fir Island. Fish & Wildlife is tasked with
managing lands to preserve wildlife and provide outdoor recreation. According
to a news release, land acquisition is a way the agency meets those
responsibilities.
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Sum of their parts: Researchers use math to foster
environmental restoration (Phys.org)
The oft-quoted proverb, "Too many cooks spoil the
broth," is apt wisdom for describing challenges facing policy makers,
public resource managers, ag producers, industry, residents and other
stakeholders in attempts to jointly tackle major environmental restoration
projects. The myriad of varied interests—some conflicting; some aligning -
results in a confusing tangle of authority and responsibility. "Resource
management boundaries seldom align with environmental systems," says Utah
State University researcher Jacopo Baggio.… With colleague Jesse Sayles of McGill
University, Baggio employed analytic modeling to unravel the confusion in a
case study of estuary watershed restoration efforts in Washington's Puget
Sound.
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With changes looming on Blanchard Mountain, volunteers
continue to preserve Oyster Dome (Skagit Valley Herald)
About two dozen volunteers took to Blanchard Mountain early
Saturday morning to help the state Department of Natural Resources maintain the
well-traversed Oyster Dome Trail. The work party, hosted by the Washington
Trails Association, braved the rain to improve steep and root-filled sections
of the trail. Arlen Bogaards, Northwest regional manager of the WTA, said he
enjoys being able to interact with volunteers who turn out to help with trail
maintenance.
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Americans once moved away from forests. Now forests are
moving away from Americans. (Washington Post)
Over several decades in the past century, city
populations swelled as Americans moved away from rural forests. Now the forests
are moving farther away from Americans. A new study of satellite images taken
over 10 years starting in 1990 shows the rural forest canopy disappearing.
Forest space disappeared from the United States in such big chunks that the
average distance from any point in the nation to a forest increased by 14
percent, about a third of a mile. While that’s no big deal to a human driving a
car with a pine-scented tree dangling from the rearview mirror, it is to a bird
hoping to rest or find food on epic seasonal flights across the globe,
according to the study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.
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Timber! ‘Silent Giant’ tree likely to come down
(Crosscut)
The “Silent Giant” might be silenced once and for all. On
Jan. 25, a Seattle hearing examiner ruled against the group of neighbors known
as the Friends of the Silent Giant who tried to block a developer’s plans to
cut down the beloved neighborhood tree. The group challenged the plans of real
estate developer Cliff Low, who purchased the property in the Admiral
neighborhood of West Seattle in 2015.
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Redwood grove to be planted in Bainbridge park (Kitsap
Sun)
The saplings sitting out on Anne Lovejoy’s deck are tiny
and fragile now. Yet locked away in their genetics is towering potential.
They’re coastal redwood trees, cloned from Northern California’s iconic giants.
Lovejoy is watching over the 10 trees for the Bainbridge parks district during
the winter months. They soon will be taken to Sakai Park, where they’ll be
planted as part of an effort to expand the redwood’s footprint around Puget
Sound. Bainbridge Island is one of about 30 communities in the region that
receiving redwood cuttings through the program Moving the Giants to Puget
Sound. More than 300 of the saplings will be planted in the region as part of
the effort, according to organizer Philip Stielstra.
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In Trump era, Washington governor says relationship with
B.C. becoming more important (CBC News)
The governor of Washington State says in the Trump era of
U.S. politics, the relationship between his state and British Columbia will
become even more important. Gov. Jay Inslee says on trade, tourism and the
environment, Donald Trump's policies could hurt his state, which is why he says
he wants to work closer with B.C. and like-minded states.
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Why To Say “Protections,” Not “Regulations” (Sightline |
Column)
Quite a while back I wrote about how the Environmental
Protection Agency should be renamed the Environmental Protection Army, with the
idea that the name might prompt people to take its role in protecting American
people more seriously—on a par with the way they see (and fund, staff, and
empower) the military. Call it what we will, it’s time now again to revisit the
reasons majorities of Americans of all political stripes believe in a strong
EPA.
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How The EPA Became A Victim Of Its Own Success (KNKX)
The Environmental Protection Agency has a pretty simple
mission in principle: to protect human health and the environment. It's a
popular purpose too. Nearly three out of four U.S. adults believe the country
"should do whatever it takes to protect the environment," according
to a 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center. Political support for the EPA,
though, is less effusive. On Friday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Scott
Pruitt as the newest administrator of the EPA, despite protests from Democrats,
scientists and nearly 800 former employees of the agency.
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The cleanup of Port Gamble Bay is now complete (Kitsap
Sun | Column | Jeremy Sullivan, Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe)
I’m very happy to report that the cleanup of Port Gamble
Bay is now complete. In January, crews — who began working on the site in 2015
— finished the cleanup work, which was being managed by Port Gamble’s owner,
Pope Resources, and overseen by the state Department of Ecology. Over the
two-year cleanup, 70,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment and wood waste
were dredged and removed. The project also broke records as one of the biggest
creosote piling removal projects in the Puget Sound with more than 6,000 piles
removed from the waters of the bay.
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Legislators have new plan to save Blanchard forest
(Skagit Valley Herald)
Legislators who represent the area in northwest Washington
that includes Blanchard Mountain have a new plan to prevent logging. Rep. Jeff
Morris, D-Mount Vernon, and Rep. Kristine Lytton, D-Anacortes, are pursuing a
land transfer that would use money already available in the state’s draft
budget rather than make cuts to free up $7.7 million to fulfill an agreement
between the state Department of Natural Resources and Skagit County.
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Building a green crab defense team (Skagit Valley Herald)
How invasive green crabs got here and how many may be
lurking along the shoreline remains a mystery. The Washington Sea Grant Crab
Team is training volunteers to help search for green crabs in the area. What
they find will help determine the extent of the invasion. Because a handful of
the invasive crabs were found in Padilla Bay in September, the team plans to
expand its volunteer monitoring efforts this year. The team trained a group of
about 30 volunteers Friday, and plans to train more in March.
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See also:
Crab Team training will foster the upcoming
hunt for green crab invaders (Watching
Our Water Ways)
Saving the Silverspot (Hakai Magazine)
At one point, Oregon silverspots, which are unique to the
Pacific Northwest, ranged from roughly northern California to Washington’s
Olympic Peninsula. They thrived in a number of different habitats—coastal
dunes, seaside meadows, montane grasslands in the Oregon Coast Range—but always
near the ocean. Salt spray and wildfires helped create the open, treeless
conditions needed for their favorite host plant, the early blue violet, to
flourish. A cocktail of factors caused silverspot numbers to dwindle, but they
all come down to one thing—habitat loss.
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Delta raptor rescue society sees dramatic spike in barn
owls this winter (Vancouver Sun)
B.C.’s barn-owl population is falling with the snow.
Delta’s Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society has taken in 43 barn owls
since Jan. 1, compared with just five barn owls over the same period last
winter, according to raptor care manager Rob Hope. Many of the rescued owls
have died. Winter is a tough time for many birds, but “it’s the barn owls that
have been the hardest hit this year,” said Hope.
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Gopher issue rears its head again (The Olympian)
In a story that is familiar to many landowners in south
Thurston County, Deborah McLain took to the podium Tuesday to address Thurston
County commissioners about her inability to build on her land. Federal
restrictions involving the endangered Mazama pocket gopher are holding up
McLain and her husband’s plans to build a home on a half-acre of an 8-acre plot
in the county south of Tumwater.
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Salmon make marginal recovery in local waters (Port
Townsend Leader)
The Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office has reported that
it is seeing some returns on its two decades of investment, but the results
remain uneven. While some salmon populations, such as Hood Canal summer chum,
are not only improving but very nearly reaching their recovery goals, other
populations, such as Puget Sound chinook and steelhead, have been classified as
“below goal” and “getting worse,” even though they’re already classified as
endangered species. What does this mean for Jefferson County specifically?
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Study says seals eat more Chinook than Southern residents
(Journal of the San Juan Islands)
Seals are eating more Chinook than Southern resident
killer whales. That’s bad for both endangered species’ recoveries. “The seals
might not be the enemy as much as the problem is that we’ve lost forage fish
available to them,” said Joe Gaydos, science director of the SeaDoc Society on
Orcas Island. According to a recent Canadian study, the amount of Chinook
salmon eaten by seals in the Salish Sea has increased from 68 metric tons in
1970 to 625 metric tons in 2015. That’s double the amount Southern resident
killer whales ate in 2015 in the same location, and six times more than
commercial and recreational fisheries according to the study.
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Winners, losers among fish when landscape undergoes
change (UW Today)
As humans build roads, construct buildings and develop
land for agriculture, freshwater ecosystems respond ― but not always in the
ways one might expect. A new study by the University of Washington and Simon
Fraser University finds that some fish lose out while others benefit as urban
and agricultural development encroaches on streams and rivers across the United
States. Having a diversity of species, each with different land-use
sensitivities and ecological functions, helps buffer ecosystems from failing in
the face of development. The findings were published online in December in
Global Change Biology.
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B.C. farmed fish feed: Bug-based Enterra product boosts
sustainability (Vancouver Sun)
Federal approval of a B.C.-made, insect-based feed for
farmed fish may help take pressure off wild ocean fish stocks. The high-protein
product, made in Langley by Enterra, is the brainchild of environmentalist
David Suzuki and CEO Brad Marchant. The
Canadian Food Inspection Agency approved dried black soldier fly larvae for use
as a feed ingredient for farmed salmon, arctic char and trout, following the
lead of U.S. regulators who approved the product last year. The feed is also
approved for poultry.
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Environmental and fishing groups sue to save salmon
(Seattle PI | Associated Press)
Environmental and fishing groups sued the federal
government on Thursday as they seek cooler water for salmon in the Columbia
River system. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Seattle against the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump's
choice to lead the agency.
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Thoughts run to an orca called Granny and her clan of
five generations (Kitsap Sun | Watching Our Water Ways blog)
Looking back on the various comments that followed the
death of the killer whale named Granny, I realized that there were a couple of
thought-provoking tributes that I never shared with readers of this blog. Two
weeks ago, the town of Friday Harbor and The Whale Museum held a potluck to
celebrate the life of Granny, who had lived long enough to be survived by a
large well-documented family, including a great-great-grandchild. During the
event, local school children displayed “Granny quilts,” made of paper squares
bearing their drawings of Granny.
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Thurston County Commissioners Look for Water Rights
Solutions (The Chronicle)
Hirst Decision: Commissioner Edwards Sees Overreach of
Government
In the wake of the Washington state Supreme Court’s
ruling in Whatcom County v. Hirst, counties across the state are struggling on
how to monitor their groundwater and issue building permits. Thurston County is
stuck in a state of limbo, Commissioner Bud Blake said at a Tuesday work
session. Before the county takes any action to set up procedures to monitor the
groundwater to issue building permits that hold up to the court’s standards,
Blake wants to see what happens in the Legislature and in the courts.
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In Vancouver, a Climate Program That's All About the
Neighbors (The Atlantic | CityLab)
For all the work that goes into building climate action
plans, cities often run up against one problem: Many well-meaning residents are
stuck in the same old habits, unsure of how to make meaningful change. In
Vancouver, the solution is starting small. About two and a half years ago, some
residents in the Riley Park neighborhood wanted to put the city’s Greenest City
Action Plan to work in their community. With support from Evergreen and a grant
from the city, they created the Green Bloc initiative and set an ambitious
goal: to decrease the carbon footprint of participating households by 25
percent.
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B.C. forests get $150 million boost to battle climate
change (CBC News)
The B.C. Liberals are doubling down on their plan to
fight climate change by planting trees. Christy Clark announced a $150 million
investment Friday in the Forest
Enhancement Society — a government-funded stewardship organization — to carry
out projects to mitigate wildfire risk and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by
replanting ravaged forests.... The investment is meant to follow through on a
plan outlined in the government's Climate Leadership Plan to plant over 300,000
hectares of pine beetle ravaged forests over the next five years.
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Seattle is a world-class city — for traffic congestion
(Seattle Times)
Seattle has fulfilled its aspirations to be a world-class
metropolis, at least in terms of traffic. The metro area ranks No. 20 in the
worldwide INRIX Traffic Scorecard, released Sunday, and No. 10 in the United
States. Drivers here were delayed an average 55 hours last year in peak times,
ranking between Jakarta and Zurich, the report found.
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While transit use declines elsewhere, it’s booming in
Seattle (Seattle Times)
Transit ridership in the increasingly crowded Seattle
area grew more than 4 percent last year, even as most big metro areas across
the U.S. lost passengers. The pace of growth was double that of Houston and
Milwaukee, the next-highest-ranked cities, where rider counts increased just
over 2 percent.... Car trips also continue to grow in Western Washington, by as
much as 10 percent last year along northern Interstate 405 between Bothell and
Bellevue.
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McLoughlin Point sewage plant gets green light, rezoning
application approved (CTV News)
Years of waiting and speculation over whether Esquimalt’s
new sewage treatment plant would ever move forward came to an end Monday night.
Esquimalt council unanimously approved a rezoning application, giving the green
light for the project to be built at McLoughlin Point. The project has been
years in the making.
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Clean water activists concerned about sewage discharge
(King 5 News)
Clean water activists are focusing on the area around the
West Point wastewater treatment facility at Discovery Park after historic
damage sent hundreds of millions of gallons of untreated discharge in Puget
Sound. Discovery Park is busy with crabbing boats and marine life, along with
hikers and tourists. It's now also busy with signs warning people to be less
busy swimming and fishing. The water is contaminated.
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No direct Tacoma consequences seen from ongoing Seattle
sewage spill (Tacoma News Tribune)
Although the failure of Seattle’s West Point wastewater
facility has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into Puget
Sound — and threatens to add more in any rainstorm in coming weeks — the upshot
for Tacoma and the South Sound is largely indirect. ... The sewage dump could affect migrating salmon,
which travel through the area of the spill, said Melissa Malott, executive
director of Citizens for a Healthy Bay.
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After the sewage flood: cleaning up at West Point
treatment plant (Seattle Times)
Clouds of steam billow and swirl in the dark amid the
roar of generators as workers aim a pressure washer at the walls in the West
Point treatment plant in a battle against filth. Outside, atop a cherry picker,
another worker trains 3,000 pounds per square inch of steam at the outside
walls of sludge digesters that overflowed. “It was raining sludge,” said Robert
Waddle, operations manager for the West Point plant, which flooded with raw
sewage and stormwater Feb. 9 when a power outage caused pumps taking effluent
from the plant to fail.
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National Park Service denies Port Angeles’ claim on Elwha
Water Facilities (Peninsula Daily News)
The National Park Service has denied Port Angeles’ $60
million claim regarding the Elwha River Surface Water Intake and treatment
facilities, continuing the impasse between the city and Park Service. The Park
Service wants to transfer the Water Intake facility and treatment facilities to
the city now that it believes the impacts of the dam removal have ended. The
facilities were built to mitigate impacts of the historic $325 million
tear-down of the Glines Canyon and Elwha dams on the city’s water supply while
the dam-depleted river habitat was restored to resurrect several fish species.
The city disagrees that the impacts are over.
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Leaves and junk are swept from streets — then dumped
where? (Everett Herald | Street Smarts blog)
Street Smarts reader Fabian Borowiecki, of Everett,
wonders what happens after the street sweepers move through. Where does all
that stuff go? And is the collected material considered toxic, with the car
fluids and whatnot they probably pick up along the way? In Snohomish County,
much of what’s swept up ultimately heads to a landfill.
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Doubling Down on Infrastructure (Planetizen | Opinion)
In the frenetic world that is Washington these days, one
proposal's bipartisan support endures: a massive new investment in infrastructure. ....
As towns and cities now work to manage aging infrastructure that is incapable
of handling impacts of more frequent storms and rising seas, they have a huge
opportunity to embrace new thinking and technology, whether in combined sewer
and stormwater systems or climate resilience.... Green infrastructure systems
rethink not only the overarching functions of infrastructure, but also the
experience of nature in the city.
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Health district lifts advisory for Bainbridge, North
Kitsap shorelines (Kitsap Sun)
Several stretches of shoreline that were closed after a
Seattle plant spilled millions of gallons of sewage and stormwater into Puget
Sound have reopened, the Kitsap Public Health District announced Tuesday.
Bainbridge Island's east side, as well as shoreline between Jefferson Point and
Restoration Point, including Port Madison Bay, have been closed since Feb. 9,
when a Seattle plant spilled between 150 and 200 million gallons of sewage and
stormwater into Puget Sound. Another spill Feb. 15 dumped an additional 10
million gallons of effluent into the sound.
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Industry groups challenge EPA's new fish consumption rule
(The Daily News)
A fish consumption rule that could cost local industry
millions of dollars may once again be open for debate. A coalition of
Washington industry groups has petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency to reconsider its water quality standards and instead adopt less
stringent standards proposed by the state.... Industry groups argue that new
water rules are unrealistic and “cannot be met with existing or foreseeable
technologies and may seriously endanger family wage jobs at facilities across
the state”, the coalition said in a press release. Instead, the coalition —
which includes Association of Washington Business, Northwest Pulp and Paper
Association and six other groups — want to see a state version of the clean
water rule implemented.
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'Slow slip' earthquake season raises risk of 'The Big
One' (CBC News)
B.C. is headed back into another one of its riskier
seismic seasons, raising the risk of "The Big One," earthquake
experts say. Every 14 months, the Cascadian subduction zone — which runs from
northern Vancouver Island down to northern California — experiences what
seismologists call a "slow slip." This year's slip has already kicked
off underneath Washington State and is expected to reach B.C. any day now. The
phenomenon happens when seismic stress shifts onto the fault area where the
Juan de Fuca and North American plates lock together. That causes thousands of
mini-tremors and heightens the likelihood of a major earthquake event in B.C.,
according to seismologist Alison Bird.
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See also:
Big quake could damage, destroy nearly 40% of Victoria
buildings, report says (Times Colonist)
Gathering celebrates ongoing restoration of Western Flyer
(Peninsula Daily News)
Scientists, educators, shipwrights and artists gathered
at the Shipwrights Co-Op in Port Townsend to see the partial restoration of the
Western Flyer and to discuss what the future holds for the historic ship. The
ship, built originally in 1937 at the Western Boat Building Corporation in
Tacoma, has been undergoing a full restoration in Port Townsend with the help
of local craftsmen since 2015…. The ship’s fame started when it was chartered
in 1940 by author John Steinbeck, who with marine biologist Ed Ricketts would
take it on a six-week expedition to Mexico’s Gulf of California. That trip provided
the blueprint for Steinbeck’s 1951 book The Log from the Sea of Cortez.
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This year’s Snow Goose Festival is canceled, but geese
remain (Everett Herald)
Problems coordinating some key activities and a lack of
volunteers led to the cancellation of the 12th annual Port Susan Snow Goose
Festival. The festival had been scheduled for this weekend. Organizers
announced earlier this month that it had been called off.... The Snow Goose
Festival celebrates the flocks of large white birds that migrate through the
area, filling fields by the hundreds this time of year in parts of Western
Washington, including Stanwood. Though the festival is cancelled, the geese
have been around this winter for bird watchers to see.
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Scott Pruitt, longtime adversary of EPA, confirmed to
lead the agency (Washington Post)
Scott Pruitt woke up Friday morning as Oklahoma’s
attorney general, a post he had used for six years to repeatedly sue the
Environmental Protection Agency for its efforts to regulate mercury, smog and
other forms of pollution. By day’s end, he had been sworn in as the agency’s
new leader, setting off a struggle over what the EPA will become in the Trump
era.
To read more >>
Fort Worden volunteers win big in State Parks awards
(Peninsula Daily News)
Volunteers from Fort Worden were well-represented in this
year’s Washington State Parks Volunteer Awards, earning accolades for the
thousands of hours they contributed to the state park in 2016.... Fort Worden
volunteers won in the Outstanding Contribution by an Individual, Hosts of the
Year and Group of the Year categories. The award recipients were announced Feb.
14.... However, much of the volunteer efforts at Fort Worden are coordinated by
the Friends of Fort Worden, which was named the 2016 Group of the Year by State
Parks. The 135 members of the organization contributed more than 5,000 hours to
projects at the park, 2,000 of those hours going to trail and beach
maintenance.
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Love of woodlands earns Marysville man conservation kudos
(Everett Herald)
Jim Weisenbach always has been an outdoorsy guy.
Weisenbach, 70, grew up in rural New Jersey. His family owned at least 10
acres, mostly woods. He would hike back to a stream and catch frogs.... The
Snohomish Conservation District has recognized Weisenbach as a dedicated
volunteer. He regularly helps with multiple projects, including the annual
plant sale that took place Feb. 11 this year.
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