11/9 Witch's hair, 'Brazil of the North,' polluter catalogue, Coastal GasLink, Stanwood fishing

Witch’s Hair [Dennis Paulson]

Witch’s Hair Alectoria sarmentosa
Witch’s Hair hangs from conifer branches in moist forests, especially in the more open old-growth forests where much sunlight penetrates. It is more desiccation-resistant than many other lichens and mosses, so it grows well in the upper canopy where the humidity is lower and winds are higher. It does equally well on lower branches where enough sunlight is present. Alectoria looks much like Old Man’s Beard, Usnea, but lacks the central stemlike cords that characterize that genus. (Slater Museum)

The “Brazil of the North” Grapples with Cutting its Old Growth Forests
British Columbia’s government proudly announced this past week that logging of old-growth forests in the province, once nicknamed “Brazil of the north” for its vast clearcuts, has declined to a record low in the past six years. Not low enough, critics responded.  The movement against cutting ancient forests has seen protests and sit-ins from Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island, where 1,200 people have been arrested, to Argonaut Creek north of Revelstoke in B.C.’s interior rain forests. The R.C.M.P. has spent $9 million (Canadian) policing the Fairy Creek protests. Joel Connelly writes. (Post Alley)

Who’s Driving Climate Change? New Data Catalogs 72,000 Polluters and Counting
A nonprofit backed by Al Gore and other big environmental donors says it can track emissions down to individual power plants, oil fields and cargo ships. Raymond Zhong reports. (NY Times)

‘You will be arrested’: Coastal GasLink security denies Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief access to monitor project construction
Private security workers told Chief Na’moks he would be arrested if he walked past a gate on a forest service road. RCMP on location did not speak with the Chief. Matt Simmons reports. (The Narwhal)

The fishing history of Stanwood, Camano Island
The marine bounty of the Salish Sea near the Stanwood and Camano Island area has been harvested for thousands of years. Archaeological evidence shows that the Indigenous people’s way of life included fishing, clamming and gathering a variety of aquatic life from the waterways of northern Puget Sound. With the arrival of Euro-Americans in the Stillaguamish Valley in the 1800s and the ensuing 1855 Treaty of Point Elliot, embattled tribes ceded the land which also resulted in diminished access to much of the water’s abundance. Mary Jennings reports. (Stanwood-Camano News)

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Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  302 AM PST Wed Nov 9 2022   
TODAY  E wind 5 to 15 kt becoming S to 10 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. NW swell 2 ft at 8 seconds. 
TONIGHT  W wind to 10 kt in the evening becoming light. Wind  waves 1 ft or less. W swell 2 ft at 7 seconds.

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