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Julebukk (Yule goat) is a Scandinavian and Northern European Yule and Christmas symbol and tradition. Its origin is Germanic pagan and has existed in many variants during Scandinavian history. Modern representations of the Yule goat are typically made of straw. The Yule goat in Nordic countries today is best known as a Christmas ornament. Large versions of this ornament are frequently erected in towns and cities around Christmas time – a tradition started with the Gävle goat in the 1960s.
Tacoutche
Tesse, the Northwest’s great ghost river — Part 4: The
death of a thousand cut-offs
The plight of wild salmon and the waters that support them is
about big things but also a lot of little, unassuming places:
creeks and sloughs and flooded fields and braided side
channels.
Biodiversity
agreement to protect planet reached at UN conference in
Montreal
Negotiators in Montreal have finalized an agreement to halt
and reverse the destruction of nature by protecting 30 per
cent of the world's land, water and marine areas by 2030, as
well as the mobilization, by 2030, of at least $200 billion US
per year in domestic and international biodiversity-related
funding from all sources, both public and private.
A
3.5-million-pound problem: More than a million chickens
near Pasco have bird flu
More than a million chickens at a farm in Franklin County,
Washington, are set to be destroyed because of bird flu.
Officials are deliberating how to transport, bury, compost, or
incinerate the birds.
Swelling
school of seaweed farmers looking to anchor in Northwest
waters
Prospective kelp growers who want to join the
handful of existing commercial seaweed farms in the Pacific
Northwest are having to contend with a lengthy permitting
process. It's gotten contentious in a few cases, but even so,
at least a couple of new seaweed farms stand on the cusp of
approval. Also: Can
kelp farming help save our marine environment? (10/7/22)
WA
adopts zero-emission standards for car sales by 2035
All new cars sold in the state of Washington must be mostly
emission-free by 2035.On Monday, the Washington State
Department of Ecology updated its Clean Vehicles Program to
require all new cars sold in the state by 2035 to be electric,
hydrogen-fueled or hybrid with at least 50 miles of
electric-only range.
What’s
next for WA aluminum manufacturing? The fight goes on
The hard-fought battle to reopen a “green” aluminum plant near
Bellingham came to a halt this month. But it may not be the
end. A new Department of Defense report to Congress says
production of aluminum, specifically high-purity aluminum, may
need a boost from the Defense Production Act. Also: Intalco
restart: can ‘green’ aluminum get ‘clean’ power? (7/21/22)
Puget
Sound This Weekend: King Tides and Climate Change
At 7 am Christmas morning, when most of us will be focused on
tinsel and eggnog, Puget Sound will fill to capacity — its
highest level in a year. The sound will bulge to more than
1,000 square miles. Beaches will all but disappear.
The
quest continues for a nutrient reduction plan
Human sources of nitrogen in Puget Sound have been blamed for
increasing the intensity of algae blooms, lowering oxygen to
critical levels, and impairing sea life. In response,
officials with the Washington Department of Ecology are
developing a Puget Sound Nutrient Reduction Plan to
strategically reduce nitrogen in various places.
Salmon
People: A tribal fishing family’s fight to preserve a way
of life
When the salmon are running up the Columbia River, Native
fishermen are there with them. They live, eat and sleep at the
river. Their children grow up at the river. They catch salmon
for subsistence, for ceremonies, and for their living.
Canada
made big promises to save nature at COP15. Will it follow
through?
196 countries set new global targets to stop the biodiversity
crisis. The test now is to put words into action.
Did salmon actually use the Skagit River before the Seattle dams were built?
Seattle City Light argues that salmon in significant numbers never
accessed the stretches of the river where its dams and reservoirs now
stand and the utility should not be required to take on the major
infrastructure work of adding fish passage. Many others disagree.
These news clips are a selection of weekday clips collected
in Salish Sea
News and Weather which is compiled as a community
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