11./22 Cranberry, paper price, salmon toxins, fish farm ban, Canada biodiversity, giant hornet

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Cranberry

Cranberry
In Washington State, you can find two species of cranberry. One is native to the area and one—the commercial one, from northeast North America—has escaped from cultivation. The cultivated, or large, cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) grows wild in various areas near the coast and in the Puget Trough, west of the Cascades. The native one, known variously as wild cranberry, swamp cranberry, bog cranberry, or small cranberry (V. oxycoccos) grows worldwide in the northern portion of the Northern Hemisphere....To see the cultivated cranberry, head for the Washington coast, mainly Pacific and Grays Harbor Counties, with some farms in Whatcom County too. In Long Beach, you could visit the Pacific Coast Cranberry Research Foundation Museum or go on their walking tour. To see the native cranberry, you'll have to find yourself a peaty area and look carefully for the plants, as Pojar and Mackinnon describe, "half buried in Sphagnum hummocks of bogs at low to middle elevations, and wet subalpine meadows." Sarah Gage writes. (WA Native Plants Society)

The Price of Paper
Coastal communities around the world contend with the toxic legacies of pulp and paper mills. Larry Pynn reports. (Hakai Magazine)

Unchecked pollution is contaminating the salmon that Pacific Northwest tribes eat
For decades, the U.S. government has failed to test for dangerous chemicals and metals in fish. So, we did. What we found was alarming for tribes. Tony Schick and Maya Miller report. (OPB and ProPublica)  Also: How we tested Columbia River salmon for contaminant OPB and ProPublica collected 50 salmon and followed standard methods for fish tissue testing (OPB and ProPublica)

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe decries DNR banning fish farming in Washington waters
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe on Monday blasted Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz’s Friday decision to end net pen fish farming in state waters managed by the Department of Natural Resources.  Brett Davis (Center Square)

Canada is hosting the largest biodiversity conference in the world. Here’s what’s at stake
Thousands of people will soon converge on Montreal for the United Nations’ biodiversity conference, the world’s big chance to agree on a path forward to save nature — and ourselves. Ainslie Cruickshank reports. (The Narwhal)

To outwit a giant hornet, scientists try speaking its language
Even the biggest insects’ brains are very small, though not so small they can’t communicate with each other—or, to an extent, with human beings. Researchers in Washington state, Japan, and South Korea aim to tell world’s largest hornets where to go by speaking the insects’ language: the potent, wafting substances known as pheromones. John Ryan reports. (KUOW)

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Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  238 AM PST Tue Nov 22 2022   
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM PST THIS MORNING  THROUGH THIS EVENING   
TODAY  E wind 5 to 15 kt becoming SW 15 to 25 kt in the  afternoon. Wind waves 1 to 2 ft building to 2 to 4 ft in the  afternoon. W swell 4 ft at 9 seconds. Rain in the morning then a  chance of rain in the afternoon. 
TONIGHT  W wind 15 to 25 kt easing to 5 to 15 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 2 to 4 ft subsiding to 1 to 2 ft after  midnight. W swell 9 ft at 10 seconds. A chance of rain in the  evening then a slight chance of rain after midnight.

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