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It’s inventory time
Once each year, volunteers deploy onto thirty-five Island County beaches for the annual Intertidal Monitoring. Yesterday was the day for the beach I help on. The monitoring program is 14 years old. It originally sprang from concerns publicized after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Before I go on, I have to say that instituting the…
Wading off into the dark
Winter beach projects It’s time for the Beach Watchers Eelgrass Monitors to brave the winter chill for eelgrass sample collection. The work isn’t hard, but the night is dark and cold and there’s an awful lot of knee deep water to wade through, so project lead Jan Holmes has wisely rounded up a couple of…
A Look at Some Blizzard Damage and a Couple of Recipes
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Whale Watcher Watching
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You’re Paying to Kill the Ocean
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Hi guys Tommy here. Hope you are both doing well.
Hi Tom, We are doing very well thanks. It’s great to hear from you. I keep trying to update this site with all we’ve done recently. I’ll manage it one day soon! Hope all is well with you.