December 2018
Dear Watchers: In reference to “Brain on Fire” by Susannah Cabalan … Looking at the medical profession from the point of view of a journalist, doctors are pretty good at answering the Who, When, and Where, but dismal at What, Why and How. And if you are the Who, you [Read More...]
An election for one seat on the Whatcom Conservation District board will be held on Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Registered voters that have participated in previous Whatcom Conservation District elections do not automatically receive a ballot. Ballots must be requested for the March 26 election and are available to all [Read More...]
On September 15, 2018, this beach cleanup crew worked at Locust Beach. photo: Ron Kleinknecht by Ron Kleinknecht Part 1 On a gray September morning, about 50 Bellinghamsters from infants to octogenarians trudged along Locust Beach under leaky skies carrying buckets, reusable plastic bags, grabbers and recording charts. [Read More...]
Juvenile chinook in the Elwha River. photo: John R. McMillan NOAA/NWFSC by Christopher Dunagan Part 3 Editor’s Note: This series was originally published in the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. An intensive research program in the United [Read More...]
Skookum Creek Image: Whatcom Land Trust by Whatcom Land Trust Staff The waters of Skookum Creek are so [Read More...]
Lorraine Loomis by Lorraine Loomis Don’t stop eating or serving chinook salmon if you want to help recover Southern Resident Killer Whales. It might make you feel better for a while, but it accomplishes little and makes recovering chinook even harder, by devastating the livelihoods of fishermen and [Read More...]
Lorraine Loomis “As the salmon disappear, so do our cultures and treaty rights. We are at a crossroads and we are running out of time.” These words of the late tribal leader Billy Frank Jr. become more urgent every day. Despite massive harvest cuts, careful use of hatcheries [Read More...]