: Big ceremonies on Saturday marked the start to free 70 miles of river and streams. http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/09/18/1828851/ceremony-marks-start-of-elwha.html
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Ever wonder how big an industry our fishing, hunting and wildlife watching industry is ? 4.5 Billion dollars a year. Here’s a quick run down of where we are, even with the catch as diminished as it is. Back in the 70s, I would venture it was 10x this, as hunting and fishing were much bigger, and wildlife viewing (like whale watching) was much smaller. Maybe, some day, all our efforts to revive the stocks will lead us back to a massive, sustainable harvest with no runs on the Endangered Species List. (thanks to Bob L. for pointing out that this is a total of all three industries.
Facts about fishing in Washington — and fishing for votes
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110916/BLOG48/709169941/-1/News
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Susan Berta of Orca Network and current president of the Penn Cove Water Festival has called for a meeting to discuss whether to continue the 20-year-old festival held in Coupeville. The meeting will be held on Sept. 19, 6 pm, at the Coupeville United Methodist Church. Susan can be reached at info@orcanetwork.org
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Sixth and final part of John Kendall’s series on the Elwha, The secrets beneath the departing lakes http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110916/NEWS/309169979/the-elwha-dams-part-6-historical-series-8212-the-secrets
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Big time celebration on the removal of the dams this weekend. The Seattle Times previews in a video its Sunday special coverage, Removing the Elwha River dams, Seattle Times Coverage of Elwha
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And so it begins.
Hammer punches a hole in Glines Canyon dam as demolition begins [Video] http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110916/NEWS/309169977/whack-whack-whack-hammer-punches-a-hole-in-glines-canyon-dam-as
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John has been videotaping the Elwha dam removal.His latest two new videos, one a six minute video interviewing key people in the dam removal, and the other a short piece on the installation of the largest fish weir in the United States, on the Elwha. Now on the Pacific NW Environmental Video Channel of Vimeo. Please vote to Like them if you do!
Enjoy!
http://vimeo.com/channels/salishseavideos
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Look out below. With more bad news, we are in for what is likely to be massive cuts in environmental monitoring and enforcement. At this rate, we’ll all be Libertarians without even needing to join Ron Paul’s party. But, to be clear, some of the state budgets, need to be compared to 10 years ago. I looked at the Governor’s budget back in the spring, and the cuts hadn’t even taken her back to the middle of the last decade. Not sure what I missed in reading that. But that’s the kind of analysis I’d like to see someone do in depth. Where we are now, and what we funded 10 or 20 years back.
State revenue forecast is out today. New Wash. revenue forecast to bring more bad news
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/09/15/2185815/new-wash-revenue-forecast-to-bring.html
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Part 5 of Port Angeles writer/historian John Kendall Elwha history. Flooding along the Elwha
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If you like to watch, webcams have been placed to monitor habitat changes– but you can watch the dams being removed as well. Are they dam cams?
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The Peninsula Daily News is right on top with today’s report on the first chip being removed from the Glines Canyon Dam. Dam removal work begins http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110915/NEWS/309159991/dam-removal-work-begins-first-chip-out-of-taller-glines-canyon-dam
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I stumbled on this update to Edward Curtis’ 1914 film this morning, searching for something else. This is the entire film, available to view online. (update- no longer true, see below). While the film is dramatic in nature, and not truly a documentary, the use of an all native cast, and shot entirely on location in Southern Alaska makes it a documentary by it’s very nature. Film of actual tribal use of canoes, traditional dances, clothing, dip nets, and much more, make this an amazing piece of film history of our part of the world. There are a lot of shots of a traditional village, dancing, use of canoes etc, as the story gets quite active, around the 22:00 minute mark. Might be a great film to show to members of the Canoe Journey as part of their training leading up to the Journey.
The use of skulls in this film may be just a dramatic touch for the audiences of that day, but, I’m not sure whether this particular tribe had a history of being that agressive and war like. I know that I’ve read that some tribes in the interior of the Canadian Coastal range, were documented to have been cannibals (can we actually trust that documentation?), but that was considered very unusual by my source material (which I no longer can remember the book it came out of), and seemed by those researchers to be only indicated for tribes in the most isolated interior mountain areas. Perhaps someone with a deeper understanding of Coastal Tribes could shed some light on this?
Here’s the overview from the web site:
In 1914, Edward Sheriff Curtis produced a 47 minute silent movie entitled, “In the Land of the Head Hunters”. This was the first feature in history to use an all-indigenous North American cast. The Kwakwaka’wakw culture is shared in this story of love, deception and honor. In 1973, Bill Holm and George Quimby produced an entirely new soundtrack using Kwakwaka’wakw consultants and cast and released their sound version entitled, “In the Land of the War Canoes.”
The link I had here before to the film appears to be dead. Sorry about this. It appears that Milestone Films has purchased the rights to the film and will be re-releasing it in 2014, the 100th annivesary of the film’s production. http://www.milestonefilms.com
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Ah yes, disinformation at it’s best….not directly related to our Peninsula, but the folks that you meet in many public forums shouting against Climate Change, could do with a little fact checking of their own.
According to a report by Mike De Souza in the Vancouver Sun, a major Alberta-based oil and gas company helped to kick-start an elaborate public relations project designed to cast doubt on scientific evidence linking human activity to global warming with a $175,000 donation in 2004 channeled through the University of Calgary. The contribution was part of $507,975 raised to produce a video and engage in public relations, advertising and lobbying activities against the Kyoto Protocol and government measures to restrict fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Read it here in the Vancouver Sun
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Part 4 of the history of the Elwha Dams, http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110914/NEWS/309149982/the-elwha-dams-part-4-historical-series-8212-klallams-river
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Jess Zimmerman in Grist reports that researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey have detected the active ingredient of Roundup, a chemical called glyphosate, in waterways, air, and rain.
Roundup weed killer is showing up in air and water http://www.grist.org/list/2011-09-13-roundup-weed-killer-is-showing-up-in-air-and-water
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Well, with park users being charged for just parking in the parks, we now see that if you don’t want higher taxes, then you will see fees on all sorts of things go through the roof. Next time someone like Tim Eyman argues that we should keep taxes in check, remember that those taxes go to lower costs for all of us to use services like boatyards. It spreads the cost of doing this from an equitable method for all citizens to something that is only affordable to the wealthy. If fees are going to be the way we fund everything moving forward, then the lower and middle classes will be priced out of everything from the parks, boating and much much more. Just wait till the Ferry system starts going to covering the actual costs of running those boats.
Barbara Bach in Three Sheets Northwest reports on boatyard owners objecting to the state’s proposal to recover all costs associated with administering the General Boatyard Permit. The increase is estimated to be from a total of $29,000 at year to $213,000. Proposal would mean big fee increase for boatyards http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/archives/19325
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Sea Breeze Power and Boundless Energy are still proposing to build a underwater transmission cable between Port Angeles and Victoria.
Cross-Strait power cable project still in works http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110913/news/309139988/cross-strait-power-cable-project-still-in-works
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Bill Bradley came to Seattle as a work destination, facing the Sonics as a New York Knicks forward, and later as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He happened to look across the water at a sight that continues to transfix even the most jaded among us locals.
“I had my personal exposure,” Bradley joked in an interview. “You look out during a Seattle sunset. You see mountains, and ask, ‘What is that?’ It’s the Olympics. What a backyard.”
Bradley was later to hike in the Olympic rainforest — “It is a special place in this country” — and to play a key role in enhancing that place. He midwifed legislation authorizing removal of two aged, salmon-destroying dams from the Elwha River, the greatest stream system on the Olympic Peninsula.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/connelly/article/A-Jersey-guy-s-love-for-the-Olympics-2159791.php
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Elwha Love in high gear: Get your guide to this week’s Elwha River dam removal events
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/section/pdntabs#elwha
Tom Callis is excited: It begins! It finally begins — Elwha dams’ removal starts Thursday
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110911/NEWS/110919989/it-begins-it-finally-begins-8212-elwha-dams-removal-starts
And John Kendall shares a 7-part history of The Elwha Dams, http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110911/NEWS/309119983/the-elwha-dams-part-i-historical-series-8212-aldwell-stakes-a
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Planning for a healthy Puget Sound has gone on long enough. Time to focus on the cleanup of a scenic wonder, a recreational treasure and an economic asset.
FRUSTRATION with the lack of measurable progress on cleanup of Puget Sound is creeping into the civic conversation. That is a good thing.
Read the whole story here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2016161763_edit12cleanup.html
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