The Daily bucket: North Cascades National Park and the North Cascades Highway...
Late October, 2015 North Cascades Mountains Washington State A trip in late October took me over the North Cascades Highway, through the North Cascades National Park and to Chelan where I met my two...
View ArticleThe Daily bucket: Lake Chelan, Beauty and Fire
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: - Ice Age Sculpting of the Grand Coulee and the Colombia...
The Grand Coulee, North Central Washington StateOctober, 2015The third leg of my October...
View ArticleThe Daily bucket: Eagles and Salmon - A symbiotic relationship between...
December 29, 2015North Fork of the Nooksack RiverI took a short trip just a few miles out of town to view the bald eagles along the North Fork of the Nooksack River in Whatcom County. I have shown...
View ArticleThe Daily bucket: Drought, What Drought?
Pacific NorthwestWashington StateJanuary 9, 2016 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....
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Salmon Stream Sees Daylight After 120 Years - Padden Creek...
Pacific NorthwestBellingham, WAJanuary, 2016After 120 years, a half mile length of Padden Creek will once again see the light of day. In 1892, an eight foot by four foot brick tunnel was built to...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: "Wings Over Water," Northwest Birding Festival
Each March our regional birders put on their annual “Wings Over Water: The Northwest Birding festival” at Blaine WA. This event is situated at the US – Canadian border where the Salish Sea including...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Gray Whales of the Salish Sea & Pacific Northwest
Salish Sea, Pacific NorthwestApril, 2016The Pacific Northwest has a tremendous array of aquatic wildlife but none more riveting or awe inspiring than the whales. In addition to our most iconic, the...
View ArticleThe Daily bucket: Sea Star Recovery in Bellingham Bay – A good news – bad...
Early June,Bellingham Bay,Salish SeaAlong with OD, I have been monitoring the local sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) population following the devastating die-off from Wasting Syndrome over that past three...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Protecting Nature Against Vandalism - a Case of Beach Graffiti
June, 2016 Larrabee State ParkEdge of the Salish SeaI am...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: What a 54,000,000 year old rock formation has to offer us...
In stark contrast to the mountainous Pacific Northwest of today, during the Eocene epoch (~ 55 ~ 34 Million YearsAgo (MYA) it was quite flat. However just as today, the region then was lush with...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket : Fossils, Coal, Building Stone, & Recreation -The Chuckanut...
Part I of this Chuckanut Formation story was mostly about the development of the formation and some of the interesting seaside sandstone features such as the tafoni. Part II will go into other features...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: The Royal British Columbia Museum’s Exhibit on Mammoths and...
I was fortunate to have been in Victoria BC recently while their Royal Museum had a magnificent traveling exhibit from Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History: “Giants of the Ice Age.” With a short...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Restoration of Wild Habitat at Maple Creek Reach trying to...
Fall 2016Maple Creek ReachNooksack Valley, WAThis fall I participated in a celebration day to welcome back the salmon of Maple Creek Reach that brought over 100 people to its meadows and river beds....
View ArticleThe Torturous Tenacity of Trees: Nurse logs, stumps, and rocks
This Bucket is a photo diary on some unconventional looking trees I’ve observed in my various local wanderings. Some appear to be growing and prospering under rather difficult and stark conditions....
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Eelgrass Meadows, the Tidelands' Global Nursery
This diary is about the wonders of eelgrass, one of the major components of near shore habitat that nurtures a myriad of sea critters. Additionally it provides many other functions in support of our...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket, Eelgrass, Part 2 – Status, Threats, and restoration.
In Part 1, I made the case that eelgrass (Zostera marina) and other sea grasses are critical to local estuaries and near shore areas as well as to the health of the planet in terms of all of the myriad...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Herring Spawn Brings on the Birds
Point Roberts,Salish SeaHerring spawn is an exciting time for sea birds and other critters of the near shore ecosystem in the Salish Sea. I was tipped off by one of our local birders that there was a...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: A trip to our 100 Aker Wood*
Early June, 2017South Side of Bellingham, WA*With apologies to A. A. Milne and Christopher Robin. This is a short story with a bunch of photos about our 100 Acre Wood that, like Milne’s is loaded with...
View ArticleThe Daily bucket; Pupping on the Rocks – The birth of a Harbor Seal Pup
In our part of the Salish Sea, late June is the beginning of harbor seal birthing (pupping) season that runs through August. On July 2nd, I was fortunate to observe one of these births on the shore of...
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