Monday, March 28, 2016 Wendy Harris ACTION
Bold Visions is a small conservation organization in New Mexico that embodies the heart and soul of the old conservation movement, when people were willing to put their lives on the line to save the planet. And recently, they asked some important questions for everyone to consider.
Monday, March 21, 2016 Ryan Matthew Ferris
Early Sunday morning my accomplice and I car pooled from Bellingham to Bernie’s Seattle rally at the Key Arena . A friend of our family had made it to the head of the line before 6:00 AM and posted as such on Facebook. Continue reading
March 17, 2016 Lorraine Wilde
In our busy lives, it’s pretty easy to overlook where our furniture comes from, how it’s made, and the history of the materials from which it was built. But REvision Division, a modest part of RE Sources for Sustainable Communities’ RE Store, is trying to change that.
North is at top of photo. Hannegan in the road running bottom to top in the photo, and Pole Road is running left to right. The intersection is known as Hinote’s Corner from the original gas station here.
Mon, Mar 14, 2016, 5:13 pm John Servais
The Whatcom Conservation District is supported by our state taxes. The state legislature provides funds to the state conservation committee which in turn distributes those funds to each of the 45 conservation districts in Washington state.
“By consolidating small ‘isolated’ wetlands into one central, large mass has proven over time to preserve wetland integrity by reducing outside impacts. Think of it as reducing the amount of perimeter exposed.”
I do not know if this person believes this, or is lying, and which one is worse? Continue reading
February 29, 2016 Wendy Harris
Time to start calling people and organizations out for sustaining the status quo while pretending to do just the opposite. And we can feel the fall-out locally. Continue reading
February 1, 2016 Dena Jensen
As most folks who visit the Whatcom Hawk Facebook group are aware, Wendy Harris, who manages that Facebook group has done a great deal of research on wood smoke and wood burning over the course of the last couple months. Continue reading
One of the saddest and stupidest planning decisions I have seen since living here…more destruction of the irreplaceable Semiahmoo Spit. Continue reading
A trip today to the county park at Semiahmoo was not uplifting.
First, I saw heavy construction occurring in the middle of the spit right in the prime of the winter bird season. See that water in the first photo.. Drayton Harbor… it should be full of sea birds and waterfowl. I am not sure if this was planned, but it did not look like a sudden storm event that required emergency repairs. Continue reading
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.. like the fact that Intalco is cutting jobs all on its own, or that the coal industry is going bust, or that the Lummis have treaty rights, or that is the site of a marine reserve with several species that have been designated as biologically significant. Continue reading
noisy waters northwest 
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