Environmental

This is a fascinating story I think nwyachting.com readers might also find interesting.

From our BC friends at the Georgia Strait Alliance. As in the U.S., the BC marine industry is making a sincere effort at clean operations and protecting the environment.

This in from Washington Sea Grant. Grab your phone, gather the megapixels and Tweet or Instagram. Can’t wait to see the results.  This holiday season get out of doors and …

Northwest Yachting columnist Peter Schrappen sent this message out to NMTA member companies about an important deadline, the message applies to boaters who aren’t “in the biz” as well. One of …

Robin Hirsch brought our attention to an issue that will be very relevant to some of our readers, the provision in the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Habitation Conservation Plan …

It appears that the Pacific coast Starfish die-off mystery is solved. For more on this, check out the Earthfix site. From Earthfix: SEATTLE — After months of research, scientists have …

A good East Coast app has made its way to the West Coast, and all our whales will benefit. The Whale Alert app, originally developed to help mariners avoid right whale strikes, has …

From the good folk at EarthFix comes this bit of environmental news. It’s a slip and slide for salmon to help get them from point A to point B.

Looking for a film to watch this fall? The film Reaching Blue tells the Salish Sea’s environmental story from several different perspectives and offers some hope for the future. From the …

This is like looking at centuries whizzing by. The audacity to create such a dam and play God with an ecosystem, only to be outdone by the even greater audacity to …

Washington Boaters are increasingly utilizing their holding tanks and the ever-improving pumpout availability. It has been a combination of changing attitudes, private enterprise and public support. The public support has …

Filmmaker John Gussman caught the last explosion of the last dam on the Elwha River on the spectacular Olympic Peninsula. Even though taking down the last of the Glines Canyon …