September-2018
by Amanda McKay The life cycle of the salmon is one to be admired: a consistent rotation of spawning, hatching, feeding, migration and the ultimate end-of-life sacrifice. With its cold, clear waters, Skookum Creek has the potential to provide salmon with the ideal habitat to live out the most important [Read More...]
Editor’s Note: This series was originally published in the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. by Christopher Dunagan An intensive research program in the U.S. and Canada is studying why so few salmon in the Salish Sea are returning home to spawn. Studies by more than 200 scientists on both sides of [Read More...]
by Laura Leigh Brakke The headline in The Bellingham Herald (February 25, 2018) announces that Governors Point is preserved and then goes on to state that public access is determined to be the way to this end. Therefore, one must ask what is being preserved. Surely, introducing thousands of people [Read More...]
Compiled by Laura Leigh Brakke 1947 Pacific Reality (Larrabee) sells land to Lee Simenson Logging Company. 1953 Governors Point Development Company forms, buys land, logs the land and installs water pipes. 1958 Carl Sahlin buys out all other partners of Governors Point Development Company. 1961 The land is logged again [Read More...]
Governors Point, an iconic 125-acre wooded peninsula with currently one home and 16 proposed for the future, juts out in the foreground. [Read More...]