10/2 Shaggy mane, WA timber sales, Climate Commitment Act, winter crabbing, WA Cares insurance

Shaggy mane

 

 Shaggy mane Coprinus comatus
Shaggy mane or inky cap is a common fungus often seen growing on lawns, along gravel roads and waste areas. When young it is an excellent edible mushroom provided that it is eaten soon after being collected It keeps very badly because of the autodigestion of its gills and cap. (Wikipedia)

Today's top story in Salish Current: The undecided

Litigation looms over latest round of Washington state timber sales
A group pressing to save older forests from logging is threatening to sue. School officials and others are raising alarm about lost revenue. Bill lucia reports. (Washington State Standard)

Why Washington tribes are fighting effort to gut the state's Climate Commitment Act
Of the state's 29 Tribes, 17 are now opposing Initiative 2117, the effort to repeal a key part of the state’s Climate Commitment Act. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez reports. (KUOW)

Winter crabbing opens in Puget Sound
Open to crabbing seven days a week through Dec. 31 include: Marine Area 4 (Neah Bay, east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh line); Marine Area 5 (Sekiu and Pillar Point); Marine Area 6 (East Strait of Juan de Fuca); Marine Area 7 (San Juan Islands); Marine Area 8-1 (Deception Pass, Hope Island and Skagit Bay); Marine Area 8-2 (Port Susan and Port Gardner); Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet); Marine Area 12 (Hood Canal, portion north of Ayock Point only). Vince Richardson reports. (Skagit Valley Herald)

Initiative 2124 would make WA Cares insurance program tax optional
Opponents call the ballot measure “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” designed to destroy the program, since enough people dropping out could make it insolvent. John Stang reports. (Cascade PBS)

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Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  205 AM PDT Wed Oct 2 2024    
TODAY  SW wind 5 to 10 kt, becoming W 10 to 15 kt this  afternoon. Seas 5 to 8 ft. Wave Detail: W 8 ft at 14 seconds. A  slight chance of rain early this morning. A chance of rain late  this morning, then a slight chance of rain early this afternoon.  
TONIGHT  W wind 5 to 10 kt, veering to NE after midnight. Seas  6 to 9 ft, subsiding to 5 to 7 ft after midnight. Wave Detail: W  8 ft at 13 seconds.

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