The Daily Bucket - The Salmon Hatchery as aid to Restoring Salmon Runs
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds...
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A Washington State Ferry plying between the San Juan Islands and Anacortes with Mt. Baker in Background Working boats are those that haul our freight, catch our fish, transport us where bridges don’t...
View ArticleRhododendron Time
Spring time is Rhododendron time around the world. These prolific bloomers are native to Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. They are members of the Genus Rhododendron and the Family of...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: The Northwest Salmon Wars: Conservationists versus Hatcheries
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather,...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: A return to Haida Gwai
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - Alpine Flora Around Mt. Baker National Forest -II
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket- Frogs, Snakes, and Wine in Northwestern Oregon
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds...
View ArticleThe Daily bucket: Seasonal Change at Mts. Baker & Shuksan
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds...
View ArticleAn October walk through Whatcom Falls Park
An overcast October day seemed like a great time to take a hike though Whatcom Falls Park (Bellingham WA) to get some pics of Whatcom Creek and the turning foliage. The city park has been around for...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Ice Age Floods, Erratics, and the Atom Bomb on the Columbia...
This diary describes an Ice Age Floods Institute field trip that I took in September that explored some of the remnants of the ice age floods in the pacific Northwest that periodically burst from...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Salmon Come Home
Blue Salmon Spawning - Southern Oregon GalleryIn order to return home salmon often have to jump, thus their name which comes from the Latin salmo,...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - Bald Eagles of the Pacific Northwest
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Camellia Coloration Conundrum
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Spring Starts
Spring is always when the important things begin, at least to me. Color returns to our gray veiled water, sky, and landscape. Now that there is light it is time to get the vegetable and herb gardens...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: The Great Blue Heron on Bellingham Bay – Heronries and...
My favorite picture of a GBH taken in the Padden Creek estuary within a quarter mile of the Heronry. This was taken a few years ago in early spring, about now.The Great Blue Heron (GBH; Ardea...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: The Beach Ecology Around a Tin Rock
I took advantage of a spring minus tide to explore an interesting historical feature along the Bellingham waterfront and to investigate how the intertidal denizens were faring in and around this...
View ArticleWashington State Open Thread - Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve and Point...
WASHINGTON STATE Open Thread This is a community series giving our Washington Kossacks a virtual meeting place to discuss issues of concern to our state and share what's happening in our lives. Share...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Public–private partnerships for preservation of old growth...
Massive old growth Douglas Fir stump with springboard cut, now a forest nurseThis stump, probably logged a 100 years ago, dates back untold 100s of years. This area was once selectively logged...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket-Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site, digging for Science & Education
Mural depiction of Columbian Mammoths in the Horse Heaven Hills. Artist: Stev Ominski August, 2015, The Horse Heaven Hills, Southwest Washington StateThe Columbian Mammoth (Mammathus columbi) once...
View ArticleGun Ownership, Gun Culture and “Accident” Prevention
Is there a "gun culture? And is it related to gun ownership and to accidental shootings? Given the many disturbing facts, statistics, and daily poignant case examples, many of which are posted on this...
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