12/10 Red-legged frog, BC wind power, Carlisle Indian School, 'Chevron doctrine,' caviar pizzas, bad news deer

 

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Red-legged frog [Julia Kirby]

Northern red-legged frog Rana aurora
The Northern red-legged frog is active for most of the year from late February through October, with breeding occurring in late winter through early spring. These frogs are most commonly found in and around fish-free bodies of fresh, still water, especially those in more open areas exposed to sunlight. (Save The Frogs)

Today's top story in Salish Current: Our private freeway: Burning rubber on the new I-5

B.C. announces 9 new wind projects to power equivalent of 500,000 homes
That number is roughly equivalent to the power projected to be generated by the Site C dam, which recently started feeding power into B.C.'s electrical grid at a construction cost of $16 billion. Majority of projects are in Interior and north and will add about 8% to power supply, government says. (Canadian Press)

Honoring the children: Biden proclaims new national monument at Carlisle
President Joe Biden announced the creation of a new national monument on the site of the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School to honor the tens of thousands of students who attended boarding schools...Deb Parker, a citizen of the Tulalip Tribes and executive director of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Project, known as NABS, who attended the summit, said the monument will honor the survivors as well as those children who died at the school and never made it home. Mary Annette Pember and Jourdan Bennett-Begaye report. (Indian Country Today)

Ruling by a conservative Supreme Court could help blue states resist Trump policies
The overturning of the ‘Chevron doctrine’ may affect everything from fishing rules to transgender rights under Trump. Tim Henderson reports. (Stateline)

Caviar Pizzas, New Money, and the Death of an Ancient Fish
Fancy fish eggs have become the latest luxury good to go viral on social media, raising questions about the future of sturgeon. Paul Greenberg reports. (Hakai Magazine)

Deer may be cute but their growing population is bad news for B.C. forests, birds. Here's why.
Much-loved deer are more plentiful in B.C. than in the 1800s. Trouble is they're devouring forest plants once central to Indigenous food supply. Birds suffer, too. There are solutions.  Douglas Todd writes. (Vancouver Sun)

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Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  255 AM PST Tue Dec 10 2024    
TODAY  E wind 10 to 15 kt. Seas 5 to 7 ft. Wave Detail: W 2 ft  at 10 seconds and W 5 ft at 16 seconds.  
TONIGHT  SE wind 10 to 15 kt. Seas 5 to 7 ft. Wave Detail: E  4 ft at 4 seconds and W 5 ft at 15 seconds.

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