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Previous Issues
Beaks and Bills
June 2018
An Eastside Retrospective
by Joe Meche As winter has finally loosened its grip we are currently making preparations for another departure to signal the beginning of our own camping season. After last month’s look back over the past sixteen years of Beaks and … Continue reading
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June 2018
June 2018
Missing Streams, Uncounted Fish and Ubiquitous Pipes
by Stephen C. Conroy To celebrate 27 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The article below appeared in the June 1998 issue of Whatcom Watch. Editor’s Note: In 2013, federal court Judge … Continue reading
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June 2018
About Lake Whatcom
by April Markiewicz It is the primary drinking water source for about 100,000 residents in Bellingham and Whatcom County. The lake is comprised of three sub-basins from which samples are collected in October through December, in February and April through … Continue reading
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June 2018
Gardening With Wildlife
by Peter Heffelfinger One of the first chores of spring is to let a few winter-hardened brassicas, such as kales or collards, go to seed. The early flowers attract native bees and the cultivated honey bees, as well as the … Continue reading
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June 2018
Climate Challenges: Lake Whatcom Update
by April Markiewicz Lake Whatcom, our community’s primary drinking water source, is already showing the effects of climate change as evidenced by increasingly common summer temperature extremes. The most recent occurrence was in 2015, followed by warmer than usual, but … Continue reading
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Initiative 1600: Single-Payer Health Care in Washington State
by Bill Walker Bernie Sanders had many great ideas on how to reform public policy so that all Americans could be served equally by a just and fair system of government. And now here in Washington State we have the … Continue reading →