7/25 Lorquin's admiral, heat watch, BC ferries, Terry Williams, Seattle Audubon, Big Oil lawsuit, Happy Birthday Deception Pass

 Lorquin's admiral [Amy Nelson]

Lorquin's admiral Limenitis lorquini
Lorquin's admiral is a butterfly in the Nymphalinae subfamily. The butterfly is named after Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin, a French naturalist who came to California from France during the Gold Rush, and made important discoveries on the natural history of the terrain. The Lorquin's admiral can mostly be found across the Upper Sonoran to the Canadian Zone, east to western Montana and Idaho. Known areas include southern British Columbia (including Vancouver Island, north of Emerald Lake), and Cypress Hills in southwestern Saskatchewan as well as southwestern Alberta. The butterfly resides mostly in forest edges, mountain canyons, parks, streamsides, fencerows, orchards, and groves of cottonwood and poplar. Usually the butterflies feed on California buckeye, yerba santa, privet, bird droppings, and dung. They are extremely territorial and will attack any intruders into their habitat, including large birds.(Wikipedia)

Excessive Heat Watch: heatwave to impact Washington this week
Monday will largely see temperatures in the 80s for the Puget Sound lowlands away from water, with coastal areas staying a touch cooler, but the typically warmer spots in Mason, Lewis, Thurston, Pierce, and King counties could see an isolated 90-degree reading. Most of the Puget Sound lowlands from Seattle south will see temperatures in the 90s from Tuesday through Friday. (KING)

B.C. Ferries fires president and CEO after 173 cancelled sailings in 28 days
After a tumultuous few years marked by staffing challenges, sailing cancellations and pandemic losses, B.C. Ferries has fired its president and CEO, Mark Collins. The corporation announced the decision in a statement on Friday. Collins led the company since 2017. (CBC) Staffing shortage forces B.C. Ferries to cancel evening sailings to and from Salt Spring Island  (CBC)

Terry Williams, Tulalip’s ‘champion of climate issues,’ dies at 74
The bolo tie-wearing elder shaped state and national environmental policy. He was both soft-spoken and a powerful advocate. Isabella Breda reports. (Everett Herald)

Seattle chapter of the Audubon Society dropping "Audubon" from its name to be more inclusive
The Seattle chapter of the Audubon Society announced that it is dropping "Audubon" from its name because of its association with white supremacy. There are hundreds of state and local chapters of the National Audubon Society, the nonprofit dedicated to protecting birds and their habitats, but Seattle Audubon is one of the largest in the country. Earlier this month, the board voted to change the chapter’s name because the man the organization is named after – illustrator, painter and bird lover John James Audubon, author of the seminal work "The Birds of America" – owned enslaved people and opposed abolition. Lilly Ana Fowler reports. (KNKX)

Vancouver’s Big Oil Lawsuit, Explained
Companies such as ExxonMobil — which owns the Canadian oil sands producer Imperial Oil —are being singled out because they privately researched climate change decades before it was a mainstream issue and determined that burning fossil fuels creates grave global threats, according to extensive documentation surfaced by researchers and journalists. But instead of acting on that life-saving information, Exxon and others then ran media campaigns throughout the 1990s and 2000s — crucial decades for getting the climate emergency under control — to convince the public that human-induced warming isn’t real. It’s an alleged disinformation campaign that continues to this day.  Geoff Dembick reports. (The Tyee)

Deception Pass State Park celebrates 100 years
Deception Pass State Park celebrated its 100th anniversary Saturday with a community picnic at East Cranberry Lake...Thousands of people came to the park on Saturday for Deception Pass’ busiest day of the year. The most visited state park in Washington, Deception Pass welcomes more than 3 million visitors a year who enjoy camping, hiking, kayaking and sightseeing. Oliver Hamlin reports. (Skagit Valley Herald)

Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  216 AM PDT Mon Jul 25 2022   
TODAY  Light wind becoming NW to 10 kt in the afternoon. Wind  waves 1 ft or less. W swell 4 ft at 8 seconds. 
TONIGHT  W wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 ft or less. W swell 4 ft  at 8 seconds.

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