Birdman of Protection Island
At dusk on an early summer evening, Protection Island is silhouetted in a deep, red sunset. A gentle breeze carries the murmurs of nesting...
Climate Change and Snake River Salmon: Undoing the System
Why do changing water temperatures in the middle of the tropical Pacific Ocean make it so important to take seriously the long-debated idea of...
Seabed Mining Part II: Who Owns the Oceans?
As detailed in Part I of this two-part series, the seafloor is teeming with minerals so expensive to recover that mining them has only...
Seabed Mining: What Lies Beneath
Ask any child, and in fact most adults, what is lurking below the waters of the Salish Sea and you might hear about whales,...
The Good News: Puget Sound Herring
Spring on Puget Sound is about gardens bursting with tulips and daffodils, white sails set against glistening blue seas, and massive, shimmering schools of...
Citizen Science: So What?
In the early summer, seabirds such as common murres and pigeon guillemots number about 50 birds per square kilometer in the southeast corner of...
Science Reporting: Hype or Hope?
Recently, a sea-grizzled, Pulitzer-award winning journalist asked me if I thought the print media did a good job of science reporting. I thought about...
From Lupine to Chinooks, the Elwha Pulses
By Jessica Plumb
Feature photo of Glines Canyon Dam reservoir by Jessica Plumb
In September 2011, I stood on a river overlook with children from my...
Flattening the Climate Curve
"We have met the enemy and they is us." Pogo by Walt Kelly
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely...
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So Long, Pygmy Kayaks
More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...
Pandemic Predictions
More than a year and a half into the pandemic, the transition back to normalcy has been tragically upended by a combination of the...
The Trail: Do We Know the Way to Discovery Bay?
Every ride or hike on the Larry Scott Trail is an exhilarating jaunt leading to disappointment. We revel in the views across Townsend Bay,...
50 Years of Sawdust and Varnish
Port Townsend's Marine Trades
By Ernie Baird with an introduction by Ross Anderson. Photos by Joel Rogers.
When Ernie Baird first found his way to Port...
Grrr: Attorney General Bob Ferguson Versus the Growlers
Coupevillle – Attorney General Bob Ferguson chose a bucolic setting for his recent Whidbey Island fundraiser, the historic Crockett Barn with its backdrop of Admiralty...
