5/24 English ivy, unstuck orca, Water Always Wins, stolen orca

English ivy

 
English ivy Hedera helix
English ivy, a non-regulated Class C noxious weed, is a woody, evergreen, perennial vine often found in King County's urban and suburban forests. Vines are trailing or climbing, and can reach 90 feet long with stems 1 foot wide. The four cultivars of English Ivy that have been shown to be the most invasive in the Pacific Northwest are Class C noxious weeds on the Washington State Noxious Weed List.

Orca, stuck overnight, finds its way into Strait
A young orca whale safely found its way out of a lagoon near McKinley Paper Mill on Monday. The whale was initially spotted swimming in the lagoon late Sunday night, researchers with Feiro Marine Life Center and the West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network said. Ken Park reports. (Peninsula Daily News)

Letting the Sea Have Its Way
Welcome to Medmerry, a community that welcomed back the marsh. [An] excerpt is from the book Water Always Wins, in which Hakai contributor Erica Gies follows innovators in what she calls the Slow Water movement who are instead asking a revolutionary question: what does water want? What water wants is to reclaim its slow phases—wetlands, floodplains, mangrove forests—that we’ve erased with development. Merida Gies writes. (Hakai Magazine)

Washington tribe fighting to return stolen orca to the Salish Sea
Members of the Lummi Nation are fighting to return Lolita, an orca stolen from her home and forced to spend her life in a Miami aquarium. (KING)

Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  304 AM PDT Tue May 24 2022   
TODAY  SW wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 ft or less. W swell 3 ft  at 8 seconds. A slight chance of rain in the afternoon. 
TONIGHT  SW wind to 10 kt becoming E after midnight. Wind waves  1 ft or less. W swell 2 ft at 9 seconds building to 4 ft at  9 seconds after midnight. A chance of rain in the evening then a  slight chance of rain after midnight.

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