Planting Trees Will Help Reduce Carbon, But You Have To Do It Right
By Dan Chasen. (This article originally appeared in Post Alley). Arbor Day, the nearly-150-year-old holiday on which people plant trees, was earlier this month. ...
Covid-19 and Campaign ’20: The Good News
The human consequences of the pandemic are grim, and the economic impacts even worse. At some point, however, we may see some benefits from...
Uninsured in Jefferson County
By Barry Mitzman
Obamacare doesn’t get much love from Democratic presidential candidates other than Joe Biden, but new numbers from the Office of Financial Management...
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Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction
Editor's note: With the launch of Oppenheimer, we are once again reminded of the legacy of the atomic bomb, and of the people and...
Insectivore Birds Part 1
I love the diversity of Pacific Northwest birds and insects. This is a two-part photo essay about both— Insectivore Birds. (Of course, the lovely...
Port Townsend’s Red-footed Booby: A messenger from the future
A little after noon on July 31, 2024, Colleen Farrell, biologist aboard a Puget Sound Express vessel, identified a Red-footed Booby sitting on a...
Brazilian music in our “little village”
We are republishing this article from last year with updates for the 2026 Centrum Choro workshop.
Some years back a Brazilian musical friend stated "we...
Spiders are Special
Spider Web Colors
Lasers? Northern Lights? Woven belts? No, this is a spider web. Lately I’ve been fascinated with one of the eight-legged arachnids—...
