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Ron Sexsmith, singer, songwriter
Copper Candy Bowl
Daniel Lanois, singer, songwriter
Fish on a Wall in Seattle, WA
News
Good news, salmon coming back.
The legacy of Lonesome Larry lives on in salmon return
n the early 1990s, it looked grim for all of the salmon and steelhead species left after 150 years of overfishing, dam-building, habitat destruction and even poisoning. The Snake River sockeye effort appeared especially quixotic.
No turnaround is more amazing than that of Idaho's Snake River sockeye. Since 2008, more than 650 sockeye have returned annually to the Sawtooth Valley, peaking in 2010 with 1,355, the most since the 1950s, before four dams were built in Washington.
More good news, saving one young humpback whale
The race to save an entangled humpback whale in Knight Inlet: Against all odds, trapped whale freed
Fishermen had laid 50 prawn traps that morning and anchored them to the bottom. When the ninemetre whale investigated, ropes got caught around the animal's fluke (the tail fin) and pectoral fin, tying him to the ocean floor.
Then Cottrell's heart sank as the whale remained stationary, tail down.
"I thought I'd missed a rope," he said.
"Then slowly he realized he was free and he started to slowly swim off."
More good news, no to coal terminals
Washington: Seattle Votes Against Coal Terminals
The Seattle City Council has unanimously passed a resolution opposing development of coal-export terminals in Washington over concerns about increased train traffic and potential harm to health and the environment.
Good people news
Obama awards medals to Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison, others
Obama said that many of the recipients had a personal effect on him, noting that he remembered reading Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” and “not just trying to figure out how to write, but also how to be and how to think.”
Toni Morrison's interview with Jian Ghomeshi, CBC radio
African American author and academic Toni Morrison speaks openly about the division between her celebrity and true self. In her latest book, titled Home, the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist subverts the often sunny and nostalgia-driven clichés about the 1950s to reveal the racist and often-violent reality faced by many African Americans.
Blog Posts of Interest
environment360
Water Depletion Threatens Future U.S. Food Supplies, Study Says
The Clean Water Act at 40: There’s Still Much Left to Do
The Colorado River: Running Near Empty
The Evening Blues - Doc Watson Edition by DKos writer joeshikspack
Wild Notebook: A Wisconsin White-Cedar Swamp photo diary by DKos writer Polly Syllabic