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Frost Island off Spencer Spit, Lopez Is [Ecology]

Frost Island
Frost Island is an island in the San Juan Islands. The approximately 70-acre island has no public electric service or land-line telephone service. There is a water-taxi that runs between the island and Anacortes. The name was given by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, in honor of John Frost, the boatswain of the expedition's Porpoise. (Wikipedia)

No Skagit River steelhead fishery for 2022
Too few wild steelhead are forecast to return to the Skagit River watershed this year for the state to allow for a steelhead fishing season. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife forecast, developed in partnership with tribes that co-manage the region’s fisheries, indicates 3,833 steelhead may return to the watershed. That’s below the 4,000-fish forecast needed for a season. (Skagit Valley Herald)

Ocean warmth sets record high in 2021 as a result of greenhouse gas emissions
Since the late 1980s, Earth’s oceans have warmed at a rate eight times faster than the preceding decades. Kasha Patel reports. (Washington Post)

Salish Sea Institute receives $300,000 gift to continue its transboundary environmental work
In December 2021, the Salish Sea Institute received the first installment of a $300,000 gift from the Greer/Solien Foundation to expand its work on transboundary issues. (Western Today)

Department of Agriculture releases new data on Asian giant hornet spread
Officials said that DNA samples taken from three Asian giant hornet nests matched those of the first hornets discovered in 2020. According to researchers, that suggests that the queens of the initial nest were not eradicated. Instead, they created several new nests across northern Whatcom County. (KGMI)

B.C. environmental, rights groups welcome court win over RCMP delay in approving watchdog report
B.C. Civil Liberties Association took force to court over 3½-year wait for review of monitoring complaint. David P. Ball reports. (CBC)

What are we willing to do to protect Southern Resident orcas?
Lynda V. Mapes, author of Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, writes about their history, their interactions with humans, and what it will take to help them survive. John O'Brian reports. (KUOW) In November 2021, she spoke at Town Hall on "The natural history of the orca and the threats to their survival."

Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  256 AM PST Thu Jan 13 2022   
TODAY  SE wind 5 to 15 kt becoming N in the afternoon. Wind  waves 2 ft or less. SW swell 8 ft at 12 seconds. A chance of rain  in the morning. 
TONIGHT  SE wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 ft or less. SW swell  7 ft at 11 seconds.

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