The Daily Bucket - Our "sort of" eclipse-lite in the PNW.
Many of you might have heard of the raging forest fires in the Pacific Northwest, particularly in British Columbia that has well over a million acres burned already from over 900 fires so far this...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: August Wildflowers on the Mountain
Wild Flowers are usually aflame in mid August around the Mt. Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest, and so they were to the extent to which we could reach them. After a snowy winter and a near record snow...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Fall Colors and Mountain Goats in the Mt. Baker Wilderness...
Mount Baker Wilderness Area,North Cascades Range,NW Washington StateOctober 5, 2017After fog and snow-pack thwarted an August attempt to hike into the Mt. Baker Wilderness Area I returned with my sons...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Snowy Owls and Trumpeter Swans are Snow Birds to the...
November/December, 2017'At the Edge of the Salish SeaThese two snowy white birds have recently returned to our area after summering and breeding in Alaska (Trumpeter Swan) and the arctic tundra (Snowy...
View ArticleA home winemaker’s excursion into amateur oenology
As many readers might know, I am a nature enthusiast and work to preserve what we have left of our natural world including trees, salmon, birds, creeks, eel grass and much more. I am also an avid...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Sharing a Salmon Lunch with a Bald Eagle
Along the salmon spawning creeks and rivers of the west coast, winter is spawning time for salmon and gorging time for eagles. And it is great for us as well to watch them play out their age old...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: “Roll on Columbia” The River that Drains the Pacific...
I grew up along this river in the Tri-City area and have had occasion to travel along much if its 1,200 mile course from British Columbia to its mouth where it joins the Pacific Ocean. The Columbia...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - Part 2, The Columbia River Rolling Into the Pacific Ocean.
We left off in Part 1 at Celilo Falls and The Dalles Dam, the last dam before the river meets the ocean. This remaining portion of the river’s journey is also spectacular although the landscape takes...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Restoring Salmon Habitat on a Green St. Patrick's Day
The salmon of the Northwest are the stuff of legends.Pioneers talked of rivers so thick that they were tempted to cross on the backs of the fish. When Meriwether Lewis led his band of explorers through...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Ocean and Beach Plastic Pollution Locally and Globally
We are all acutely aware that our oceans and lakes are becoming contaminated by discarded plastics among other toxins and debris. This problem is world-wide and like all politics, the solution must...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: A Creek Preservation Project on Earth Day 2018 & When is a...
Canyon Creek, Whatcom Co., WA State April 22, 2018 (Earth Day) There were so many Earth Day activities to attend that I had some difficulty choosing which to spend my day with. I chose to go with the...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: A “Bio-Blitz” Inventory of an ecosystem at a Nature Reserve
This nature reserve includes some very old logged areas (now with big second growth) but also some old growth forest (> 450 year old trees). Aside from its beauty and diversity, it is remarkable for...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: A Tree for all Seasons and its Phenology from Solstice to...
I have a favorite tree. It is a Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea). The scarlet designation comes from its bright fall red foliage that will be apparent when we get to October.The Scarlet Oak is native to...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: The Nooksack River - a Treasure to Preserve
I’ve written of conservation efforts to preserve our local PNW waters and the salmonids that spawn and live in these streams. In these posts I have periodically mentioned the Nooksack but I have not...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Nooksack River Part 2 - The History and Current State of...
In part I of this series I described the Nooksack River from its headwaters in the North Cascade Mountains through its course to the Salish Sea. I made the case that this river, along with others...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - Arbor Day & Parks Reclamation project
By Mayoral Proclamation, October 28th, 2018 became Arbor Day in Bellingham WA. Although Arbor Day is a worldwide event, each country, state, and city can designate which day to celebrate it depending...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Saving the Nooksack III – Will Restoration Activity Be...
In parts 1 and 2, of this series I described the Nooksack River and how it’s three forks joined from the glaciers and water sheds surrounding the Mount Baker National Forest and wilderness area. The...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Nature Scenes of Orcas Island – One of the Jewels of the...
Orcas Island, San Juan IslandsSalish Sea, Washington StateMs. K. and I were treated to a couple of days in January at Deer Harbor Resort on Orcas Island by my brother who belongs to a timeshare condo...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Nurturing Nature - A Family Stewardship of a Forest Plot
Northwest Washington StateBellingham, WAGiven humanity’s penchant for exploiting the environment, Mother Nature needs a hand to protect it from further human encroachment and give its wounds a chance...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Shore and Water Birds of Boundary Bay.
Semiahmoo Spit — Boundary BayNW Washington State
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