House
Finch [Greg Lavety]
House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus
House Finches are native to open and desert habitats, but have
expanded their range, naturally and through introductions, and now
can be found in almost any kind of human-altered habitat. They
prefer edge habitat and are absent from dense coniferous forests.
(BirdWeb)
Today's top story in Salish Current: The ocean is not an energy zone
Northbound I-5 cleared for traffic
Northbound I-5 south of Bellingham was opened to traffic Wednesday afternoon after the road was cleared of approximately 7,000 cubic yards of landslide material – comparable, according to WDOT, to filling two Olympic sized swimming pools. (WDOT)
San juan County-Anacorted power estored
Puget Sound Energy restored service to accounts on Fidalgo Island near the WSF terminal in Anacortes and all of SanJuan County after 8 hour beginning at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The cause of the outage was listed as "equipment failure" by the utility. (Puget Sound Energy/OPALCO)
Vancouver approves 250-room floating hotel in Coal Harbour
Sunborn Group, a Finnish hospitality company in partnership with local seaplane terminal Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre, received approval from the Vancouver City Council to build a low-carbon vessel with 250 hotel rooms and 200 new jobs in Coal Harbor. (CBC)
Bellingham approves deal with logging firm to thin trees in protected forest
Bellingham City Council has approved a contract with Janicki Logging and Construction Co. to thin about 80 acres of Douglas fir in the 148-acre North Beaver Creek Preserve on the north slopes of Galbraith Mountain. Robert Mittendorf reports. (Bellingham Herald)
Port of Port Angeles considers court filing on stream buffer expansion
Port of Port Angeles commissioners signaled support for filing or joining an amicus curiae brief in a legal challenge to a state rule expanding buffers on non-fish-bearing perennial streams that flow into fish-bearing waterways, citing potential economic impacts and questions about how the rule was adopted. The suit challenging the rule change was filed by the Washington Farm Forestry Association and Washington Forest Protection Association. Paula Hunt reports. (Peninsula Daily News)
Feds want to cut Hanford cleanup budget
Count efforts to address dangers at the Hanford nuclear site as another potential casualty of America’s global military ambitions. The Trump administration wants to cut $400 million from Hanford’s 2027 cleanup budget as part of a push to add a half trillion dollars to the national defense budget by slashing Hanford funding from a record $3.3 billion to about $2.9 billion. John Strong reports. (Columbia Insight)
BC’s Toxic Drug Crisis Hits a Grim 10-Year Anniversary
More than 18,000 British Columbians have been killed and there’s no end in sight. Michelle Gamage reports. (The Tyee)
Northbound I-5 south of Bellingham was opened to traffic Wednesday afternoon after the road was cleared of approximately 7,000 cubic yards of landslide material – comparable, according to WDOT, to filling two Olympic sized swimming pools. (WDOT)
San juan County-Anacorted power estored
Puget Sound Energy restored service to accounts on Fidalgo Island near the WSF terminal in Anacortes and all of SanJuan County after 8 hour beginning at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The cause of the outage was listed as "equipment failure" by the utility. (Puget Sound Energy/OPALCO)
Vancouver approves 250-room floating hotel in Coal Harbour
Sunborn Group, a Finnish hospitality company in partnership with local seaplane terminal Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre, received approval from the Vancouver City Council to build a low-carbon vessel with 250 hotel rooms and 200 new jobs in Coal Harbor. (CBC)
Bellingham approves deal with logging firm to thin trees in protected forest
Bellingham City Council has approved a contract with Janicki Logging and Construction Co. to thin about 80 acres of Douglas fir in the 148-acre North Beaver Creek Preserve on the north slopes of Galbraith Mountain. Robert Mittendorf reports. (Bellingham Herald)
Port of Port Angeles considers court filing on stream buffer expansion
Port of Port Angeles commissioners signaled support for filing or joining an amicus curiae brief in a legal challenge to a state rule expanding buffers on non-fish-bearing perennial streams that flow into fish-bearing waterways, citing potential economic impacts and questions about how the rule was adopted. The suit challenging the rule change was filed by the Washington Farm Forestry Association and Washington Forest Protection Association. Paula Hunt reports. (Peninsula Daily News)
Feds want to cut Hanford cleanup budget
Count efforts to address dangers at the Hanford nuclear site as another potential casualty of America’s global military ambitions. The Trump administration wants to cut $400 million from Hanford’s 2027 cleanup budget as part of a push to add a half trillion dollars to the national defense budget by slashing Hanford funding from a record $3.3 billion to about $2.9 billion. John Strong reports. (Columbia Insight)
BC’s Toxic Drug Crisis Hits a Grim 10-Year Anniversary
More than 18,000 British Columbians have been killed and there’s no end in sight. Michelle Gamage reports. (The Tyee)
Pass the Pufferball
California sea lions and other marine mammals engage in complex play that prepares them for life, improves their well-being—and may be just plain fun. Sarah Gilman reports. (bioGraphic)
California sea lions and other marine mammals engage in complex play that prepares them for life, improves their well-being—and may be just plain fun. Sarah Gilman reports. (bioGraphic)
Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca- 217 PM PDT Wed Apr 15 2026
THU W wind around 5 kt, rising to 10 to 15 kt in the afternoon. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Wave Detail: W 6 ft at 10 seconds.
THU NIGHT W wind 10 to 15 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Wave Detail: W 6 ft at 9 seconds.
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca- 217 PM PDT Wed Apr 15 2026
THU W wind around 5 kt, rising to 10 to 15 kt in the afternoon. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Wave Detail: W 6 ft at 10 seconds.
THU NIGHT W wind 10 to 15 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Wave Detail: W 6 ft at 9 seconds.
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