4/7 Clara Butt tulip, Lummi reefnet, land-based fish farm, 'Chainsaw,' WA water, week in review

 

Clara Butt tulip

Clara Butt tulip  (1889)
Once the world’s most popular tulip, gracing hundreds of catalog covers, this willowy, shell-pink beauty was lost to gardeners in 2007 when the last US grower finally gave it up. To save it, we sent 100 bulbs from his last harvest to our friends in Holland, and now there’s enough to share! Though bred from antique Flemish stock, ‘Clara’ was the prototypical 20th-century tulip – not feathered or flamed, not short and bright, but tall, late, pastel, and lovely. (Old House Gardens)

Sustainable salmon fishing the Lummi way
Reef netting is an integral part of Lummi culture that was once widely practiced. But shortly after the Point Elliott Treaty was signed in 1855, everything about how Indigenous people fished — from their waters and catch limits, to the land where they processed their catch — was forcibly taken away until the practice nearly died out. The Lummi have spent more than 100 years trying to claw their way back to it. Jackie Varriano reports. (Seattle Times)

WA’s DNR pivots to fish farms on land after net-pen controversy
...The state Department of Natural Resources this week signed an agreement with Sustainable Blue, a Nova Scotian Atlantic salmon farming company, to identify state lands that could support a fish-farming facility and to eventually negotiate a lease. The agreement is not binding. Isabella Breda reports. (Seattle Times)

Famous killer whale ‘Chainsaw’ returns to Salish Sea
A local celebrity killer whale has returned to the Salish Sea, the Pacific Whale Watch Association said on Thursday. T63, known as Chainsaw for his jagged fin, is a member of the coastal Bigg’s killer whale population. He was first spotted on Tuesday morning in Boundary Pass near Washington’s San Juan Islands. Julia Dallas reports. (KIRO)

Experts have ‘serious drought concerns’ for WA this summer. Here’s why they’re worried
Much of Washington is entering spring dangerously close to drought conditions, and the low snowpack in the Cascades and throughout eastern Washington isn’t doing much to alleviate conditions. Shauna Goodman reports. (Tacoma News Tribune)

Salish Sea News Week in Review 4/7/23: Beaver Friday, Snake R dams, disaster lessons, dissolved oxygen, bat fungus, plastic fish, green crabs, Willow drill, BC water levels, WA water

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Now, your weekend tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  400 AM PDT Fri Apr 7 2023   
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM PDT THIS MORNING   
TODAY  W wind to 10 kt becoming SW 5 to 15 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. SW swell 5 ft at 9 seconds. Showers  likely in the morning then a chance of showers in the afternoon. 
TONIGHT  S wind 10 to 20 kt becoming SE 15 to 25 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 3 to 5 ft. SW swell 4 ft at 9 seconds. A  chance of showers in the evening then rain likely after midnight.   
SAT  SE wind 15 to 25 kt. Wind waves 3 to 5 ft building to 6 to  8 ft in the afternoon. W swell 10 ft at 8 seconds. Rain. 
SAT NIGHT  SE wind 10 to 20 kt rising to 15 to 25 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 7 to 9 ft. W swell 9 ft at 10 seconds  becoming S 8 ft at 14 seconds after midnight. 
SUN  SE wind 20 to 30 kt. Wind waves 6 to 8 ft building to 8 to  10 ft in the afternoon. SW swell 10 ft at 14 seconds becoming S  8 ft at 14 seconds in the afternoon.

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