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NATURE NOTES – DISCOVER SAN JUAN ISLANDS 2020
Your Conservation Land Bank turns 30 this year and is celebrating with a multi-island exploration. Every preserve has a story – gather your family and get outside this summer to discover [...]
NATURE NOTES – FLYING TIGERS
-- entomologist Cynthia Brast-Bormann Hiking the beach bluffs above Deadman Bay on a sunny day, you may encounter a tiger along the trail. Not the man-eating kind, but the six-legged, flying [...]
NATURE NOTES – OSPREY SIGHTINGS AT WEEKS WETLAND
--Amanda Wedow, Lopez Island Preserve Steward Photos courtesy of Beth St. George Next time you are in the village, bring your binoculars! The Osprey is a large fish-eating hawk and is [...]
SJC Conservation Land Bank and OPALCO collaborate on Power Line Improvements
In collaboration with the SJC Conservation Land Bank, OPALCO will soon begin replacing power poles on the south side of Turtleback Mountain Preserve. Broadly, this project will improve the safety and [...]
NATURE NOTES – SHARP-TAILED SNAKE
-- Amanda Azous Most of us are familiar with garter snakes but there is another reptile fewer of us are familiar with in the Pacific Northwest: the Sharp-tailed snake (Contia tenuis). [...]
