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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 ...
What’s next for the environment in Northwest Washington?
17 hours ago · The upcoming presidential term coincides with some of the last years we have to rapidly draw down greenhouse gas emissions and avoid global warming of 2.0℃ or more. Deadly floods, storms, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires are already here, and now time to meaningfully limit the severity of the destruction is running out.
‘It's our identity, our culture, our everything’ - Salish Current
Nov 6, 2024 · Everything points back to salmon. It’s our identity, our culture, our everything.”. 2024 is the 50th anniversary of U.S. District Court Judge George H. Boldt’s ruling upholding the fishing rights of tribal nations that signed treaties in 1854–55 by which the U.S. obtained land for its expansion into the Pacific Northwest.
‘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 ...
Spiny dogfish on the move - Salish Current
1 day 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 ...
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.
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 …
Rising seas force adaptation to climate change - Salish Current
Jan 12, 2024 · SeaLevelRise.org and Washington Sea Grant predict the sea level will rise in the San Juan Island six more inches by 2050 and two feet by 2100. Photographs of a historic structure at San Juan Island National Park’s English Camp — historically a Coast Salish village known as Pe’pi’ow’elh — seem to confirm rising sea levels there.
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.