10/11 Anemone, kelp farm, AK crab seasons, airplane lead fuel, The Weather, gray whales, The Border

Christmas anemone
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Christmas anemone Urticina crassicornis
Urticina crassicornis, commonly known as the mottled anemone, the painted anemone or the Christmas anemone, is a large and common intertidal and subtidal sea anemone. Its habitat includes a large portion of the coastal areas of the northern hemisphere, mainly polar regions, and it lives a solitary life for up to 80 years. Mottled anemones are similar to Dahlia anemones (U. felina) and both are commonly referred to as northern red anemones. (Wikipedia)

Can kelp farming help save our marine environment?
SEA2SEED, a Guemes Island nonprofit, sees multiple benefits from kelp, for land and sea. Richard Arlin Walker reports. (Salish Current)

Conservation concerns cancel Alaska’s Bering snow, king crab seasons
Alaska officials have canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest, and in a first-ever move, also scuttled the winter harvest of smaller snow crab. The move is a double whammy to a fleet from Alaska, Washington and Oregon pursuing Bering Sea crab in harvests that as recently as 2016 grossed $280 million. Hal Bernton reports. (Seattle Times)

EPA targets lead airplane fuel, citing children living near runways
The EPA said Friday that it was proposing to declare emissions from piston-engine aircraft operating on leaded fuel pose a danger to public health. Michael Laris reports. (Washington Post)

Seattle’s record-setting warm and dry weather is both random and a dress rehearsal, experts say
Seattle’s identity has been synonymous with drizzle, moss and the angsty grunge music and compulsive coffee drinking that’s fueled by its notoriously damp, gray weather. But this year’s summer and start of fall are threatening to wring those traits from the city’s long-held character. Lisa Stiffler reports. (GeekWire)

West Coast gray whale population continues to decline but scientists remain cautiously optimistic
U.S. researchers say the number of gray whales off western North America has continued to fall over the last two years, a decline that resembles previous population swings over the past several decades. According to an assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries released Friday, the most recent count put the population at 16,650 whales — down 38% from its peak in 2015-16. Associated Press and Bellamy Pailthorp report. (KNKX)

How a federal border became a dividing line for Nooksack citizenship
Disenrolled Nooksack citizens believe that the U.S.-Canada border, and legal metrics like blood quantum, ignore the nuances of pre-colonial Indigenous belonging. Luna Reyna reports. (Crosscut)

Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  237 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022   
TODAY  E wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 ft or less. NW swell 9 ft  at 9 seconds becoming W 5 ft at 9 seconds in the afternoon. 
TONIGHT  Light wind. Wind waves less than 1 ft. W swell 3 ft at  9 seconds.

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