6/1 Douglas aster, House of Tears totem pole, Fairy Cr protest, TM pipe tunnel, orca attack, Howe Sound maps, old growth guitars, hummer poop

Douglas aster [East Multnomah Conserv. Dist.]

 
Douglas Aster Aster subspicatus
Douglas Aster is a tall spreading perennial that blooms into the late summer and thrives on saltwater shorelines. The rather lanky stems are topped with bluish purple flowers that look like miniature daisies (ray flowers). The prolific blooms will draw lots of butterflies. (East Multnomah Conservation District)

House of Tears Carvers visit Bellingham with totem pole bound for DC
Several hundred people took part in an opportunity in Bellingham to view a totem pole created by Lummi carvers — the latest stop in the Red Road to D.C. tour of the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere across the U.S. Amy Nelson reports. (Salish Current)

Hundreds of protesters flood back into old-growth blockade camps cleared by RCMP
In the middle of the woods, 20 kilometres from a police barricade, sits a man in a boat in a tree. He is one of hundreds of activists who have returned to camps the RCMP has spent weeks trying to clear to enforce a B.C. Supreme Court injunction allowing a forestry company to continue old-growth logging activities in the area near Port Renfrew, B.C...Since RCMP began enforcing the injunction on May 17, officers have arrested 142 people for breaching the injunction or for obstruction. Nine people have been arrested more than once, according to police. Kieran Oudshoorn reports. (CBC) See also: Three Days in the Theatre of Fairy Creek  The drama playing out today was set in motion 150 years ago. One person can change the ending. Arno Kopecky writes. (The Tyee)

Trans Mountain pipeline begins construction of tunnel in Burnaby, B.C.
Construction has begun on the 2.6-kilometre tunnel in Burnaby, B.C., for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The company says in a news release the work on the tunnel connecting the Westridge Marine and Burnaby terminals began Wednesday. It says the start of construction of the tunnel represents one of the major components of the expansion project in the Lower Mainland and is expected to take a little over half a year to complete. The tunnel construction began after a year of preparation and more than six years of planning, design and regulatory processes. Trans Mountain says the tunnel will be more than four metres in diameter and have three delivery pipelines to load vessels at the Westridge Marine terminal. (Canadian Press)

Humpback mother and calf fend off orca attack in wild video captured off Nanaimo
A Vancouver Island Whale Watch crew set out on a search Monday, worried for a humpback mother and her calf that they last saw Saturday off Nanaimo’s Neck Point. The two humpbacks haven’t been seen since a wild video was recorded by sailor Darcy Irwin on Saturday night. According to witnesses, three pods of transient orcas, the T100, T123s and T46Bs former a bigger group of 13 whales and moved in on the humpback mom and her calf around dinner time. The video shows bodies slamming against the water over an elapsed time of more than 30 minutes. Skye Ryan reports. (CHEK)

Howe Sound guide to launch maps for World Oceans Day
On the eve of World Oceans Day on June 8, the Howe Sound/Átl’ka7tsem Marine Reference Guide project will be launching two maps of the region. The first is an interactive tool that was three years in the making and has more than 400 layers built into it. In an interview, Gibsons-based project director Fiona Beaty said the interactive map helps visualize how people, industry and marine life use the area. Keili Bartlett reports. (Pique NewsMagazine)

Use of Old-Growth Timber Hits a Sour Note in the Music Industry
Guitars are often made from big trees — but the industry is changing its tune. Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren writes. (The Tyee)

B.C. researchers request hummingbird poop to help measure planet's health
B.C. researchers are asking the public to send in feces from hummingbirds to determine their health which they say could help measure one of the indicators of a healthy planet. They're also asking those who are able to send in any hummingbird feces they collect. "It sounds like a strange thing, but we have sparked this investigation of hummingbirds because they are such great pollinators," said Lisa Wood, an associate professor and researcher at the University of Northern British Columbia. Brittany Roffel reports. (CBC)

Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  247 AM PDT Tue Jun 1 2021   
TODAY  NW wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 ft or less. W swell 4 ft  at 12 seconds. Patchy fog in the morning. 
TONIGHT  W wind 10 to 20 kt. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. W swell 5 ft  at 11 seconds. Patchy fog after midnight.

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