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Previous Issues
Cover Story
December 2017
Whatcom Water Use — With and Without Permission
by Eric Hirst With rare exceptions, everyone in Washington must have a water right to legally draw water from streams, rivers, lakes or from groundwater wells. Some farmers in Whatcom County, however, are using water without state authorization. Informal and … Continue reading
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Oct/Nov 2017
Changing Climate: Adaptation or Extinction
by Ray Kamada Part 1 Let’s begin as a devil’s advocate. What is it with the alarmists? The world is warming, but so what? The Earth has always warmed and cooled. Why keep global warming under 2.0 degrees C.? For … Continue reading
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Oct/Nov 2017
Atlantic Salmon in Washington State
by Andrew Wise Once a Prize, Now a Fugitive, State Agencies Weigh a Fish’s Future It was 1978 when Andy Appleby first interacted with an Atlantic salmon in the waters of the Puget Sound. A young biologist fresh out of school, Appleby was … Continue reading
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September 2017
Finding a Home for Farmworkers
by Andrew Wise Regulators and Non-profits Work to Improve Housing Conditions The air hung heavy with wildfire smoke and a muggy 83 degrees on August 2, the day Honesto Ibarra started feeling ill while working in the blueberry fields at … Continue reading
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September 2017
Prepping for Doomsday
by John Simmons Many people in the Northwest are expecting the Big One. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching 700 miles from California to Vancouver, British Columbia, releases a major earthquake approximately every 300 – 400 years. The last one occurred … Continue reading
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August 2017
After 25 Years, EPA Cleaning Up Toxic Site Near Ferndale
by Andrew Wise On a marshy piece of land sitting in the shadow of the British Petroleum Cherry Point Refinery, just west of Ferndale and south of Blaine, sits a rusting collection of large industrial tanks connected by a spider … Continue reading
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August 2017
Restoring Grizzlies to the North Cascades
by John Simmons Grizzly bears. Icons of the Wild West and the fear of campers everywhere. Many people would like to see grizzlies return to their natural ranges for their cultural importance and ecological benefits; others oppose their return for … Continue reading
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July 2017
Noxious Fumes Hit Whatcom County
by Michael Riordan The smelly plume of sulfurous gases that wafted over Bellingham Saturday evening, June 3, 2017, was apparently not an unusual occurrence.[1] It was caused by an overpressure event on the Italian tanker Mare Siculum anchored east of … Continue reading
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July 2017
New County Council Districts Explained
by Richard May Whatcom now has a five-district system to elect the council that governs our county. We will still have seven council members, but we will no longer elect all seven by a vote of the whole county. Each … Continue reading
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June 2017
Eelgrass Meadows, Our Tidelands Nursery
by Ron Kleinknech Part 1 If you have ever been to Whatcom County beaches during a minus tide you have likely seen eelgrass — the long green slender blades that drift in the tide. It turns out these marine grasses … Continue reading
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