11/1 Dead man's fingers, Capitol Lake, Indigenous 'Salmon Seas' proclamation, Skagit Farms fine, tribal food sovereignty, feeding the people, bats

Sea Sac [Seaweeds of Pacific NW]

Dead Man’s Fingers/Sea Sac Halosaccion glandiforme
Resembling clusters of inflated rubber glove fibers, the name 'dead man's fingers' is highly descriptive of this seaweed's shape. Sometimes the 'fingers' will be deflated but usually they are filled with water. This species varies in color from purple-red to yellowy-green or brownish. While it can reach 30 cm tall, it is more commonly found at half that size or less. The 'fingers' attach to rocks via small disc-shaped holdfasts. (Biodiversity of the Central Coast)

State announces its official recommendation for future of Capitol Lake
The state’s Department of Enterprise Services will recommend allowing Capitol Lake to revert to an estuary, its final Environmental Impact Statement for Capitol Lake says. It’s really the only choice, if the water is to ever meet state quality standards again, according to an Oct. 31 news release from the DES. Estuary restoration achieves project goals such as improving water quality and managing sediment better than the other alternatives, which were managing the lake as is or creating a hybrid of a lake and estuary. An estuary also will allow for more community use, with healthier waters for recreation. And it restores more than 80 acres of marsh habitat that once existed in the area. Ty Vinson reports. (Olympian)
 
Indigenous people of the ‘Salmon Seas’ sign proclamation at Woodland Park Zoo
Dozens of Indigenous knowledge keepers, leaders and fishers from around the Salish Sea, Southeast Alaska and the Sea of Okhotsk gathered at Woodland Park Zoo over the weekend. They shared ancestral knowledge, ceremony and strategies to protect salmon and the people who have cared for them since time immemorial. The goal was to reinvoke Indigenous knowledge in conversations about salmon recovery, Se’Si’Le co-executive director Kurt Russo said. Isabella Breda reports. (Seattle Times)

Settlement for unauthorized irrigation in Skagit Valley benefits salmon
Skagit Valley Farm has agreed to pay $138,500 toward salmon restoration efforts in the Skagit area as part of a settlement agreement with the Washington Department of Ecology over unauthorized irrigation. (Dept. of Ecology)

How tribes, local organizations are bolstering food sovereignty
The U.S. government weaponized Indigenous reliance on traditional foods. Now, food sovereignty movements are taking back agency and rebuilding access. Luna Reyna reports. (Crosscut)

Who will farm to feed the people?
Read Kai Uyehara's story in Salish Current about farm centers equipping and empowering a new generation of farmers as their predecessors age. Support independent, free to read, fact-based news for Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties. YOUR REGION. YOUR NEWS.

'Yogurt for bats': A new way to fight a deadly pandemic
A deadly disease spreads across the country. Millions die as scientists race to develop vaccines and medicines that can lower the death toll. Covid-19? No, this disease is called white-nose syndrome, and its victims are bats. The bat-slaying fungus has gotten a foothold, or winghold, in Washington state, but scientists are racing to outflank this fungal disease before it decimates bats in the Northwest as it has back East. John Ryan reports. (KUOW)  See also: Forget Halloween — here's the scary story of a fungus coming for B.C.'s bats Georgie Smyth reports. (CBC)

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Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  244 AM PDT Tue Nov 1 2022   
TODAY  SE wind to 10 kt becoming NE 5 to 15 kt in the  afternoon. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 9 ft at 13 seconds. A  chance of showers and a slight chance of tstms. 
TONIGHT  NW wind to 10 kt becoming E 5 to 15 kt after midnight.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 9 ft at 13 seconds. A chance of  showers.

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