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Douglas Maple Acer glabrum var. douglasii
Acer glabrum is better known as Rocky Mountain Maple in the interior regions of the country. Glabrum means smooth, without hair, referring to its smooth stems and leaves. The variety is named after David Douglas. The variety douglasii, is found from coastal southeast Alaska and British Columbia, to southern Oregon; east to Idaho and Montana. Natives used Douglas Maple for snowshoe frames. (Native Plants PNW)
Intalco aluminum smelter releasing high levels of sulfur dioxide
Despite curtailment, Ferndale’s Intalco aluminum smelter continues to exceed safe emission levels of sulfur dioxide, a respiratory risk, in the region. [T]he plant will need significant modification to produce “permanent and enforceable reductions to SO2 emissions” at the facility, including the installation and operation of a sulfur dioxide emissions control system. The plant will also need to merge existing stacks and increase the height of the merged stacks, as well as limit facility-wide and unit-specific sulfur dioxide emissions. Julia Lerner reports. (CDN)
Seattle Council OKs plan to ban gas-powered leaf blowers
The Seattle City Council has voted unanimously to plan the phasing out
of gasoline-powered leaf blowers for city departments and contractors by
2025 and businesses and residents by 2027, “or later, if necessary.”
The resolution passed Tuesday asks city departments to develop plans and
design a public-education strategy around the transition, The Seattle
Times reported. (Associated Press)
People from around Western Washington gathered at the Department of Natural Resources building on the Capitol Campus in Olympia on Tuesday with the Summit Lake Alliance to protest the DNR’s management of state lands and continued clear-cutting of trees they think should be conserved. Brel Froebe, with the Center for Responsible Forestry, led the event and introduced several speakers, including Thurston County Commissioners Tye Menser and Carolina Mejia, who attended as part of a special meeting. Ty Vinson reports. (Olympian)
More arguments heard in debate over environmental mitigation
The Skagit County Board of Commissioners heard new arguments Tuesday regarding its decision to prohibit certain salmon habitat projects on county farmland. Will Honea, senior deputy prosecuting attorney, proposed the ordinance based on concerns that Seattle City Light will propose such projects to compensate for the environmental impacts of its Skagit River dams 70 miles away, as it pursues a license to continue operating the dams. A number of Skagit County farmers spoke in support of the ordinance. Representatives of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community spoke against it. Honea said he expects the commissioners will vote on a permanent ordinance later this year. Brandon Stone reports. (Skagit Valley Herald)
Watch: 600-pound sea lion jumps into small BC boat
A panicked California sea lion launched itself out of the ocean off Pedder Bay onto a small aluminum boat in a desperate attempt to elude a group of transient killer whales. A group of three Bigg’s killer whales, also known as transients, had been eating a harbour seal that day. Carla Wilson and Alanna Kelly report. (Times Colonist)
Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-
235 AM PDT Thu Sep 8 2022
TODAY
NW wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 ft or less. W swell 6 ft
at 9 seconds.
TONIGHT
W wind 5 to 15 kt becoming SE to 10 kt after midnight.
Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 5 ft at 8 seconds.
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