4/8 Eclipse, TM pipe startup, orca calf, PCB standards, cruise season, ocean floor plastic

Baily's beads and the "diamond ring" effect,
7/2/19 [Space.com]

The April 8 solar eclipse will bring weird sights, sounds and feelings
The darkening of the sky on April 8 will bring with it a plethora of strange phenomena. Here's a brief list of some of the strange phenomena that may distract you as you attempt to take in the most exciting astronomical event of 2024. Robert Lea reports. (Space)

Today's top story in Salish Current: A noticeable difference in downtown Bellingham

Salish Current Seeks Managing Editor
Salish Current,  a four-year-old nonprofit newsroom serving Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties in Northwest Washington, is seeking a Managing Editor to direct its staff of freelance writers and editors and provide content for its readers. Contact here.

May startup of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion surprises analysts
Trans Mountain's announcement that its expanded oil pipeline would start commercial operations on May 1 has surprised analysts with an earlier-than-expected commencement on the long-delayed $34 billion project. The federal government-owned company set the date late on Wednesday, having previously said startup would happen in the second quarter. The May 1 target is ambitious considering Trans Mountain needs to complete line fill and receive regulatory approvals, said Dylan White, North American crude analyst for Wood Mackenzie, adding that late May or early June is more realistic. Rod Nickel reports. (Thomson Reuters)  Alberta sets another record for oil production as Trans Mountain expansion opening looms. Output up 3% to 3.95 million barrels per day, the most ever recorded in February. Robson Fletcher reports. (CBC) 

Drone images show trapped B.C. orca calf is healthy female, Fisheries Department says
The young killer whale stranded in the lagoon off Vancouver Island is a girl. A statement from the Fisheries Department on Friday says drone images have determined that the calf given the First Nation name Kiisahi?is, or Brave Little Hunter, is female. Dirk Meissner reports. (Canadian Press)

Feds deny Washington’s request for stricter PCB standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied a request from the Washington Department of Ecology to set tighter limits for harmful chemicals used in manufacturing that find their way into the state’s waterways. In its April 4 denial of the petition, the EPA said that though it shares Washington’s concerns about PCB pollution, the state’s request and the information it provided did not prove that changing the federal limits was necessary at this time. Laurel Demkovich reports. (Washington State Standard)

Cruise season in Seattle starts with a rally against pollution
As thousands of people flocked to the Seattle waterfront on Saturday to embark on the first cruise of the year, climate activists protested nearby demanding the cruise industry do more to address pollution.  Caitlyn Freeman reports. (Seattle Times)

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, finds global study
Researchers have taken a deep dive into plastic pollution, and found up to 100 times more of the synthetic material blankets the ocean floor than floats on the surface. Tiffany Crawford reports. (Vancouver Sun)

Can Green Hydrogen Production Help Bring Oceanic Dead Zones Back to Life?
Green hydrogen production makes a lot of extra oxygen. Could we put it to work revitalizing the ocean? Brian Owens reports. (Hakai Magazine)

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West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  231 AM PDT Mon Apr 8 2024    
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING    
TODAY  S wind 15 to 25 kt. Wind waves 2 to 4 ft. W swell 5 ft  at 12 seconds.  
TONIGHT  SW wind 15 to 25 kt becoming W 10 to 20 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 2 to 4 ft. W swell 7 ft at 15 seconds.

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4/5 Rock cress, Big Oil trial, liquified LNG, underwater mics, floating hotel, week in review

 

Rock Cress [WSU]

Rock Cress Aubrieta deltoidea
Rock cress makes a nice herbaceous spring blooming perennial with its profusion of purple flowers held above the green foliage beneath. This species is adapted to full or partial sun, and does best on light well-drained soils. It is often considered a rock garden plant, or seen tumbling over stone walls in the spring. It can be sheared after it has finished blooming. (WSU)

Today's top story in Salish Current: Community Voices / A boat is a dream on the water

Climate change lawsuits will finally put Big Oil on trial
32 lawsuits now target fossil fuel companies over climate damage. Alex Brown reports. (Washington State Standard)

WA utility offers an alternative maritime fuel, but gets pushback
Puget Sound Energy is producing liquified natural gas to power vessels with less emissions but its entire process of production from well head to finished product may not be as pollution free. Isabella Breda reports. (Seattle Times)

Underwater microphones aim to protect orcas from ships in B.C.'s Salish Sea
Ocean Wise says hydrophones will be used to alert commercial mariners in real time of killer whales in this busy shipping pass. Tiffany Crawford reports. (Vancouver Sun)

Squamish residents get say on floating hotel plan for LNG project
Woodfibre LNG needs municipal approval for hotel in order to start full-scale construction. David Carrigg reports. (Times Colonist)

Salish Sea News Week in Review 4/5/24: Dandelion Friday!, zombie fires, bird flu in cows, gray whales, honeybee collapse, SRKW extinction, orca calf airlift. 

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Here's your weekend tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  229 AM PDT Fri Apr 5 2024    
TODAY  NW wind to 10 kt becoming W 5 to 15 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 1 to 2 ft. W swell 6 ft at 10 seconds.  
TONIGHT  W wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. W swell 5 ft  at 9 seconds.  
SAT  S wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 1 to 2 ft. W swell 4 ft at  12 seconds.  
SAT NIGHT  SW wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 to 2 ft. W swell 6 ft  at 15 seconds.  
SUN  SW wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 1 to 2 ft. W swell 6 ft at  14 seconds.

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4/4 Rattlesnake plantain, orca calf, Skagit gas spill, NW hydro, BC logging deferrals, bird flu

 

Rattlesnake plantain [Rebekah D. Wallace]

Rattlesnake plantain Goodyera oblongifolia
Rattlesnake plantain is a terrestrial perennial monocot in the orchid family, Orchidaceae, rising from a fibrous rhizome. The genus, Goodyera, occurs worldwide, but is primarily in Southeast Asia. In the western hemisphere, there are 16 species and in North America, it narrows to only four. Even though it is not abundant, rattlesnake plantain is widespread throughout North America extending from Canada and Alaska in the north, to Mexico in the south. (USDA)

Today's top story in Salish Current: Removing the barriers for people with disabilities

Rescuers plan helicopter airlift of orca calf stranded in B.C. lagoon
Plans are now underway to airlift a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off northern Vancouver Island in an effort to reunite the young orca with its extended family. Fisheries Department and First Nations officials say the plans involve placing the two-year-old calf into a sling, lifting it out of the lagoon by helicopter and putting it in a holding net pen in the ocean while they wait until its family pod is nearby before the young orca is released. Dirk Meissner reports. (Canadian Press)

With emergency response to gasoline spill completed, remediation work to begin
Four months after about 16,000 gallons of gasoline from the Olympic Pipeline were spilled into waterways and soil near Conway, the unified command in charge of the cleanup has announced the end of the emergency response.  In total, crews recovered 332,776 gallons of oily water, and removed 11,973 cubic yards of soil. Crews also treated 1.1 million gallons of contaminated water and returned it to Hill Ditch. Emma Fletcher-Frazer reports. (Skagit Valley Herald)

Power from NW dams fell last year to lowest level in two decades
Hydropower generated for electricity from Oregon and Washington dams fell to historically low levels last year, and experts expect it could drop further by year’s end. Eleven Western states produce up to 60% of the country’s hydroelectricity. Washington, California and Oregon are the three largest contributors, with Oregon and Washington producing more than one-third of all U.S. hydropower. Both Oregon and Washington generated 20% less hydropower in 2023 than in 2021. Alex Baumhardt reports. (Washington State Standard)

Finalizing Logging Deferrals to Save BC Old Growth Goes Slowly
More than three years after announcing plans to defer logging of old-growth forests, the British Columbia government continues talking with many individual Indigenous nations about whether or not to move ahead with the deferrals proposed on their territories. There are more than 200 Indigenous nations in the province, and there’s forestry happening on the territories of well over three-quarters of them. Andrew MacLeod reports. (The Tyee)

Now that bird flu is spreading among cows, scientists worry where H5N1 will jump next
Over the last two decades, this deadly form of bird flu began striking more and more wild and farmed bird species. The threat exploded in 2022 with tens of millions of global bird deaths. And a rising number of mammals are also getting infected, from mink to seals to domestic dogs and cats. This March, prior to the discovery of cases among cattle, Minnesota reported an H5N1 infection in a young goat, marking the first known U.S. case of bird flu in a ruminant. Lauren Pelley reports. (CBC)

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Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  203 AM PDT Thu Apr 4 2024    
TODAY  N wind to 10 kt becoming NW 5 to 15 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 6 ft at 12 seconds.  
TONIGHT  NW wind 10 to 20 kt easing to 10 kt after midnight.  Wind waves 1 to 3 ft subsiding to 1 ft or less after midnight. W  swell 6 ft at 11 seconds.

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4/3 Buttercup, SRKW extinction

 

Buttercup

Buttercup Ranunculus
Ranunculus is a large genus of about 1700 to more than 1800 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. The genus is distributed worldwide, primarily in temperate and montane regions. (Wikipedia)

Today's top story in Salish Current: Additional acreage next to Madrona Point to be returned to Lummi Nation

Extinction risk to southern resident orcas accelerating as researchers raise alarm
Orca scientist Rob Williams always thought conservation was a knowledge problem, that once science showed why a species was declining, people would fix it. But new research published Tuesday concludes otherwise. Even in the case of one of the world’s most charismatic species, the endangered southern resident killer whales that frequent Puget Sound are facing an accelerating risk of extinction, a new population analysis shows. Lynda Mapes reports. (Seattle Times)

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Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  207 AM PDT Wed Apr 3 2024    
TODAY  W wind 5 to 15 kt becoming SW to 10 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. W swell 5 ft at 10 seconds.  
TONIGHT  NW wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell  7 ft at 12 seconds.

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4/2 Western azalea, honeybees, blocked timber sale, orca calf, BC pipeline, fecal warnings, orcas in winter

 

Western Azalea [Native Plants PNW]

Western Azalea Rhododendron occidentale
Occidentale means western; so Rhododendron occidentale, literally means, “western rose-tree.” It is sometimes called Pacific Azalea or California Azalea. Western Azalea is native to the coasts of central and southern Oregon and California, in the Umpqua Valley, and the Siskiyou and Sierra Mountain ranges. There have been some anecdotal accounts in the Puget Sound region. Western Azalea grows rapidly to about 9-15 ft. (3-5m) and is long-lived. It grows in moist, open woods and streambanks. [Native Plants PNW]

Today's top stories in Salish Current: Community Voices / First four games doth not a season portend; Artist’s Corner: “The First Warm Day of Spring”

Western honeybee colonies at risk of collapse, WSU study finds
One of nature’s most important keystone species is working itself to death. Colonies of honeybees — crucial pollinators for a wide variety of plants and cash crops — are at risk of collapse because of climate change, a recent study by scientists at Washington State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture found. Conrad Swanson reports. (Seattle Times)

WA timber sale blocked as judge orders climate change study
Washington state can’t auction an East King County forest for logging without first analyzing the local project’s climate change impacts, a judge ruled last week, blocking the controversial timber sale and putting officials under pressure to change how they evaluate public lands for harvesting. Daniel Beckman reports. (Seattle Times)

Stranded orca calf remains in B.C. lagoon, breaching at regular intervals
The two year-old orca has been alone in the lagoon near Little Espinosa Inlet since March 23 when its mother became trapped by the low tide and died on the rocky beach. (Canadian Press)  Watch: Experts use AI in orca calf rescue attempt Marine biologists are employing AI tools in an attempt to rescue a two-year-old orca calf that's still stranded in a lagoon off the coast of Vancouver Island. (CBC)

Frustrated with government, Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs wavering on support for B.C. pipeline
As tensions in northwest B.C. persist over pipelines, court-ordered injunctions and police enforcement, Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs demand government respect and dialogue. Matt Simmons reports. (The Narwhal)

Human poop pollution targeted in new B.C. early warning system
A molecular PCR test will be developed to distinguish between human and animal fecal pollution in the Salish Sea. The results are expected to reduce beach closures and shellfish contamination. Stefan Labbé reports. (Times Colonist)

Watch: New research aims to learn about orca habits in winter
Researchers off Vancouver Island use new, non-invasive ways to gather evidence to solve the mystery of what B.C.'s killer whales get up to in the winter. (CBC)

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Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  232 AM PDT Tue Apr 2 2024    
TODAY  SW wind 5 to 15 kt becoming 10 to 20 kt in the  afternoon. Wind waves 1 to 2 ft building to 2 to 4 ft in the  afternoon. W swell 5 ft at 12 seconds.  
TONIGHT  W wind 10 to 20 kt. Wind waves 3 to 5 ft. W swell 5 ft  at 11 seconds.

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4/1 Pacific rhody, baby orca, bigger buffers, herring spawn, zombie fires, bird flu, bee count, eDNA, gray whales

 

Pacific Rhododendron [Native Plants PNW]

Pacific Rhododendron Rhododendron macrophyllum                                                               
The Pacific Rhododendron is also known as the Coast Rhododendron, California Rhododendron, or California Rosebay.  Rhododendron macrophyllum literally means, “Rose tree with big leaves.”  It is the state flower of Washington State. The rhododendron genus includes plants commonly known as azaleas.  It reaches to about 24 feet (8m); taller in the shade than in the sun. It grows in in fairly dry open forests and edges. It commonly grows along roadsides in the rainshadow of the Olympic Mountains. (Native Plants PNW)

Today's top story in Salish Current: Community Voices / A gentle force in a small package

Rescuers look for improved tides in effort to save orphaned B.C. whale
Work to coax the two-year-old Bigg's killer whale over a sandbar and into the open ocean started after its mother died more than a week ago. (Canadian Press)

B.C. group pushes for greater buffer between boats, killer whales
The Raincoast Conservation Foundation launched a petition to urge Ottawa to increase the existing vessel buffer from 400 metres to 1,000 metres. Washington state passed Senate Bill 5371 which, beginning in January 2025, will require boaters to stay 1,000 yards away from southern resident killer whales. helle Morton reports. (CBC)

Satellites track the tiny silver fish hugely important to marine life
A new scientific endeavour has taken to the sky using high-tech drones and satellite images to understand better the annual spring herring spawn vital to salmon and wildlife on the West Coast. Between February and March each year, frigid ocean waters transform to a milky tropical-looking turquoise green when male herring release milt to fertilize the countless eggs deposited by females on eelgrass, kelp and seaweed fringing coastal shores. Rochelle Baker reports. (National Observer)

Fires from 2023 still smouldering under snow reveal B.C.'s dangerous new reality
B.C. had 90 zombie blazes burning as of mid-March, holdovers from last year’s record fire season, while Alberta started the year with 64. Thomas Seal and Robert Tuttle report. (Bloomberg News)

For the first time, U.S. dairy cows have tested positive for bird flu
Livestock at multiple dairy farms across the U.S. have tested positive for bird flu — also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI — in an outbreak that's likely spread to at least five states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed Friday that cows in Texas, Kansas and Michigan had been sickened by the virus, and there were presumptive positive test results for additional herds in New Mexico and Idaho. It's the first time the disease has been found in dairy cattle, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. Jon Hernandez reports. (NPR)

Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?
Hidden deep within the latest Census of Agriculture lurks a shocking fact: The United States has more bee colonies than ever before. Is it true? What happened? Andrew Van Dam reports. (Washington Post)

'CSI on the ocean': Whale researchers comb B.C. waters for eDNA
The non-profit conservation group Ocean Wise and researchers have spent more than a week on the water regularly observing the whales and collecting water samples to study the environmental DNA (eDNA) of Bigg's killer whales, North Pacific humpbacks and B.C.'s endangered southern resident killer whales. than Sawyer reports. (CBC)

New count of gray whales along West Coast suggests rebound
A new count of the gray whale population along the West Coast shows “signs of recovery” five years after hundreds of them washed ashore and the population began declining, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Scientists estimate the total number of eastern north Pacific Gray whales to be somewhere between 17,400 and 21,300, an increase from last year’s estimate, which had shown another year of decline. Last season, scientists estimated between 13,200 and 15,960 whales. Amanda Zhou reports. (Seattle Times)

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West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  237 AM PDT Mon Apr 1 2024    
TODAY  W wind to 10 kt becoming NW 5 to 15 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 6 ft at 12 seconds.  
TONIGHT  W wind 5 to 15 kt easing to 10 kt after midnight. Wind  waves 2 ft or less. W swell 7 ft at 13 seconds.

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3/29 Golden-crowned kinglet, orca calf rescue, EPA truck emissions, WA transportation budget, Delta jetty, salmon closure, feral rabbits, Quimper Corridor, week in review

 

Golden-crowned kinglet [Ryan Schain]

Golden-crowned kinglet Regulus satrapa
Golden-crowned Kinglets are boldly marked with a black eyebrow stripe and flashy lemon-yellow crest. A good look can require some patience, as they spend much of their time high up in dense spruce or fir foliage. To find them, listen for their high, thin call notes and song. Though barely larger than a hummingbird, this frenetically active bird can survive –40 degree nights, sometimes huddling together for warmth.

Today's top story in Salish Current: Skagit agritourism controversy is about more than weddings in barns

Killer whale rescue team continues efforts to coax calf to ocean
A flotilla of up to 10 vessels, taking advantage of the best tidal flows in days, was on the waters of a remote lagoon off northern Vancouver Island Thursday in an effort to coax a young killer whale back to the open ocean, but "a successful outcome is not guaranteed." Six days of efforts to entice a two-year-old orca calf out of the lagoon and back to the ocean following the death of its mother last weekend have included the use of recorded killer whale calls, specialized directional guide lines and the pounding of Indigenous drum beats, but with no success. Dirk Meissner reports. (Canadian Press)

EPA sets strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses in bid to fight climate change
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation’s largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. Matthew Daly and Tom Krisher report. (Associated Press)

Inslee signs final transportation budget, warns of tough sledding
Washington governor says with revenues declining and project costs rising, lawmakers and his successor will face difficult decisions in coming years. Jerry Cornfield reports. (Washington State Standard)

Provincial approval of new jetty for LNG exports a 'slap in the face,' says environmental group
Environmental groups say the province's approval of a new jetty in Delta, B.C., to facilitate exporting liquefied natural gas is inconsistent with its climate goals. The FortisBC Tilbury LNG project consists of building a jetty on the south arm of the Fraser River adjacent to the company's existing Tilbury LNG facility. It will be used to fill ships exporting LNG, as well as to provide fuel for bunkering ships that then refuel ships in other locations that run on LNG. Tessa Vikander reports. (CBC)

Anglers push back against proposed salmon closures
Recreational anglers say the federal government is using outdated predictive modelling and isn’t consulting the locals in its proposal to add further closures to the chinook fishery around Port Renfrew to protect the endangered southern resident killer whales. Darron Kloster reports. (Times Colonist)

Shelter space dwindling as feral rabbit colonies multiply
Every day, rabbit rescues in B.C.'s Lower Mainland get calls from people looking to surrender pet rabbits, or to report feral ones in their communities. And as more rabbits end up in parks or other parts of cities, the faster they reproduce, according to Sorelle Saidman, founder of Rabbitats Rescue Society. Courtney Dickson reports. (CBC)

More than 100 acres added to Quimper Wildlife Corridor
About 107 acres have been transferred to Jefferson County to expand the Quimper Wildlife Corridor in Port Townsend...The county purchased three parcels totaling 107 acres from the state Department of Natural Resources last year through the department’s Trust Land Transfer program. Peter Segall reports. (Peninsula Daily News)

Salish Sea News and Weather Week in Review 3/29/24: March, beached orca, calf rescue, sewage plant, WA drought, PFAS, ocean oxygen, orca species, bridge crash, truck emissions.

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West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  232 AM PDT Fri Mar 29 2024    
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON    
TODAY  E wind 5 to 15 kt becoming to 10 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 11 ft at 12 seconds subsiding to  9 ft at 11 seconds in the afternoon.  
TONIGHT  NW wind 5 to 15 kt easing to 10 kt after midnight.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 6 ft at 12 seconds.  
SAT  E wind to 10 kt becoming N 5 to 15 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 5 ft at 11 seconds.  
SAT NIGHT  W wind 10 to 20 kt becoming SE to 10 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft subsiding to 1 ft or less after  midnight. W swell 5 ft at 11 seconds.
 SUN  E wind to 10 kt becoming NE in the afternoon. Wind waves  1 ft or less. W swell 6 ft at 11 seconds.

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