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The Salish Current is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, online local news organization serving Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties. Based in Bellingham, we serve 400,000 residents and tens of thousands of annual visitors to the three-county area. Our region is the ancestral home of Native treaty tribes including the Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, Sauk ...
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Celebrating alternative agriculture: the 50th anniversary for Tilth
5 hours ago · This week, Nov. 14–16, the Tilth Alliance is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a conference in Vancouver. Tilth may not be well known across Northwest Washington by name, but the community impacts the organization has cultivated are notable and familiar. At its roots, Tilth aims to “ build a sustainable, healthy and equitable food future ...
Spiny dogfish on the move - Salish Current
2 days ago · The Pacific spiny dogfish is the most abundant shark in Puget Sound, despite its former decline due to overfishing in the 20th century. Despite their small size, Pacific spiny dogfish sharks play a critical role in the Puget Sound food web, shaping life-and-death competition over food supplies. Some experts call dogfish a “keystone species ...
What’s next for the environment in Northwest Washington?
1 day ago · In stark contrast to the general election, Washington voters overwhelmingly elected pro-environment candidates and rejected Initiative 2117, the ballot measure to repeal the 2022 Climate Commitment Act. Dave Upthegrove, who ran on a commitment to conserve mature forests on state lands, was elected to serve as the state’s next Commissioner of ...
‘Historic’ Samish Nation housing is part of a return to ancestral land
Jun 17, 2024 · For Marilyn Howard, the bright two-bedroom cottage appointed with Coast Salish décor is much more than a new, low-cost place to live. It’s a return home to ancestral land. Howard, a Samish woman who’s spent most of her life in Bellingham, is the first resident of Xwch’ángteng (whuh-CH-ang-tun), a neighborhood of 14 homes and a community ...
Signs of a hidden threat: preparing for the really big one
Sep 6, 2023 · The signs and attention are meant to prepare people, especially visitors, for the certainty of a tsunami, if not the precise timing and magnitude of it. But at times, fatalism settles in. Rusk said, “If the tsunami comes, then maybe it was sort of meant to be.”. Still, making a plan is smart. Ray has an informal one.
2021: A look back at some stories from the first full year of Salish ...
Dec 31, 2021 · 2021 was a year like no other, with themes such as public health vis-à-vis COVID-19 and opioid addiction; social justice in the courts, the arts, housing and policing; and climate change and natural resources including water rights management. Salish Current offers a look back via articles published during the nonprofit newsroom's first full year.
Anticipated Salish Sea vessel traffic increases spark calls for more ...
Jan 28, 2022 · Ready to assist large vessels transiting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and outer coast, the tug Barbara Foss sits dockside at Neah Bay. As vessel traffic is expected to increase in the region, some are calling for additional safeguards against associated risks …