Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy

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I read this book after a review of it on the Washington Native Plant Society listserve by Allyn Weaks.  This review is partly his and partly mine.  My first thought about writing this review was how to convince gardeners to purposely grow plants that would attract insects that eat them!  I decided it was worth a try if it meant that the insect damage to the plants would be minimal since the insects would attract the birds that Audubon folks love! Continue Reading →

Airport in Enumclaw!

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We have just learned about this proposed International Airport idea. We hope you understand the serious nature of the intentions of the FAA and our State Legislature.  Enumclaw Plateau Community Association (EPCA) a CSA sponsored by King County Local Services are rallying major pushback on this crazy idea. All of this work we have been doing at the Green River Coalition along the Soos and the Newuakum Creeks is in jeopardy.  Continue Reading →

How to heat your home and NOT the planet!

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The global energy crisis is starting to really hurt, and the prospects for winter fuel prices are starting to look pretty bleak for millions of people in the Northern hemisphere. So how do we get ourselves off our hopeless dependence on fossil fuels? And if the alternative is intermittent renewables then how are we going to keep our homes constantly warm during the colder months? Perhaps our friends in Scandinavia can provide some answers…
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Are EVs really better for the climate?

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Electric vehicles are rapidly growing in popularity as the number of different options has increased dramatically over the last couple of years and prices are beginning to move towards parity with internal combustion engine cars. But once all the carbon costs of extracting, processing and manufacturing are taken into account, how much lower is the overall lifetime carbon footprint of an EV compared to and ICE car? And for that matter, what’s the carbon footprint of all the other types of transport we use in modern society? Continue Reading →

Morning Birdwatching Walk with Leica Store Bellevue at Magnuson Park

Join Leica Birding Specialist, Whitney Lanfranco, Wildlife Researcher, Mike Lanzone, and Leica Store Bellevue for an early morning Birdwatching Walk in Warren G. Magnuson Park on Saturday, August 27th, 2022, from 8:00 – 11:00 am. The walk will meet at 7:30 for check-in at the northern corner of Parking Lot E4 (47.681100, -122.248143), which is the parking lot near the bathrooms and Swim Area at the Northeast end of Lakeshore Drive NE. Continue Reading →

Birdwatching Talk with Mike Lanzone at Leica Store Bellevue

Join us at the Leica Store Bellevue on Friday, August 26th at 7:00 pm for the discussion, “Connecting Networks, Wings & Wildlife For Conservation” with wildlife researcher, Mike Lanzone. The evening will feature an in-depth conversation that focuses on the Internet of Wildlife- connecting technology and wildlife to answer the big conservation questions of today and tomorrow. Continue Reading →

Owls of the Eastern Ice

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Did you ever wonder how a conservation plan for an endangered species comes to be?  Jonathan Slaght of Minnesota became interested in the Blakiston’s fish owl when he saw his first one in 2000 while working in the Peace Corps. After completing a Master of Science project on the songbirds of the Primorye region of Russia (where North Korea, China and Russia meet “in a tangle of mountains and barbed wire”), he chose the fish owl for his PhD. Project. Continue Reading →