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About Us - Salish Current
WEBThe 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 ...
‘Historic’ Samish Nation housing is part of a return to ancestral land
WEBJun 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 …
An important new asset for Bellingham - Salish Current
WEBSep 19, 2024 · The essays, analyses and opinions presented as Community Voices express the perspectives of their authors on topics of interest and importance to the community, and are not intended to reflect perspectives on behalf of the Salish Current. [Updated Sept. 20, 2024]Commentary: New programs in the new Lighthouse Mission building will enhance a community asset
How islands respond to threats of climate change - Salish Current
WEB2 days ago · Planning and actions required to develop resilience to multiple challenges. By the end of this century, the San Juan Islands will see sea levels rise up to two feet, increased saltwater intrusion, both drought and extreme precipitation, extreme heat, wildfire and wildfire smoke events. Since 2020, San Juan County government has prioritized ...
Signs of a hidden threat: preparing for the really big one
WEBSep 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.
Rising seas force adaptation to climate change - Salish Current
WEBJan 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 ...
WEBDec 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 …
Have enough water? San Juan prepares to find out, with USGS study
WEBJul 21, 2021 · That survey was completed in 2002, when the county’s year-round population stood at 14,077, and was based on field work done in 1997 and 1998. “The total cost of the [new] study for San Juan County is $150,000, with USGS providing a share of $58,000,” said environmental health specialist Ethan Schmidt. The county has had some extra time ...
After the flood: still rebuilding amid uncertainty, anxiety—and ...
WEBNov 17, 2022 · Editor’s note: Salish Current continues its coverage of Nooksack flooding by revisiting the people and the places written about in earlier stories: “Flood survivors face next flood season while awaiting long-term fixes,” Sept. 15, 2022 “Flood recovery continues in Sumas, seven months on,” June 24, 2022 “Whatcom farmers face manure management challenges after flooding,” Dec. 22, 2021