4/6 Creeping jenny, stormwater map, heat dome, WA EVs, Skagit water, murder hornet, Bowker Cr. dog doo

Creeping jenny [Gardenista]

Creeping jenny Lysimachia nummularia
Creeping jenny is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family Primulaceae. Its common names include moneywort, creeping jenny, herb twopence and twopenny grass. (Wikipedia) With some plants there is a fine line between friend and foe and lots of ground covers, by their very nature, fall into this category. Useful plants that will cover banks or unsightly, “tricky” areas can be prone to rapidly colonizing areas too, smothering everything in its path. (Gardenista)

First-of-its-kind stormwater ‘heat map’ lights up pollutants fouling waters in Washington state
...[A] first-of-its-kind heat map is making stormwater pollution visible across the 16,700-square-mile watershed that drains into Seattle’s Puget Sound.The Nature Conservancy led the six year effort to create the free, interactive Stormwater Heatmap, which publicly launched in March. Lisa Stiffler reports. (GeekWire)

Middle Schoolers Tackle the Heat Dome
Washington State seventh graders are studying how the heat dome hurt shellfish and, in the process, learning to engage with science in a new way. Lindsay VanSomeren reports. (Hakai Magazine)

Washington wants drivers to plug into clean cars by 2030 before other West Coast states
Democratic-led states on the West Coast are setting ambitious timelines to phase out sales of gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. The Washington Legislature just approved a goal that all new cars sold in the state beginning with model year 2030 be electric. Oregon and California have 2035 as their target. Some of these dates are aspirational, but one has teeth. Tom Banse reports. (NW News Network)

Skagit Valley vegetable grower fined for irrigating without water rights
The state Department of Ecology has fined Skagit Valley Farm $267,000 for irrigating 348 acres in 2021 without having water rights. The crops unlawfully irrigated were in the lower Skagit and Samish watersheds, according to a news release from Ecology...Ecology estimated the crops that were irrigated unlawfully were worth about $1.7 million. Skagit Valley Farm operates on about 3,100 acres of farmland in Skagit County and other areas of the state, according to the release. (Skagit Valley Herald)

Sex bait seen as useful tool in tracking murder hornets
Researchers at the University of California in San Diego have been testing the powerful pheromones in traps and results show it’s impossible for males to resist. Darron Kloster reports. (Times Colonist)

Salmon fry return to Victoria's Bowker Creek for first time in nearly a century
In January, 28,000 salmon chum eggs were distributed into a gravel bank in Bowker Creek, a waterway on Vancouver Island that runs through Saanich, Victoria and Oak Bay. Volunteers are rejoicing as salmon fry have successfully emerged from the gravel in an urban B.C. creek for the first time in nearly 100 years. Courtney Dickson reports. (CBC)

Seattle loves dogs — but not picking up after them
With more than a million dog owners in Seattle, the city consistently ranks among the most pooch-friendly metropolises in the nation. But some irksome concerns come along with that love. Among them: Seattle has been named the second-worst city in the country when it comes to complaints about dog poop on Twitter, according to pet insurance web company Protect My Paws. The company released the report in honor of International Pooper Scooper Week at the beginning of this month... The problem is a regional one, and other Puget Sound cities are having their own battles over it. Christine Clarridge reports. (Seattle Times)

Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  207 AM PDT Wed Apr 6 2022   
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM PDT THIS MORNING   
TODAY  SE wind 5 to 15 kt rising to 15 to 20 kt in the  afternoon. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. W swell 10 ft at 12 seconds  subsiding to 8 ft. 
TONIGHT  E wind to 10 kt becoming SE 5 to 15 kt after midnight.

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