#WA state & beyond: Web Event 12/14 noon-1pm "TREES, the ORIGINAL #STORMWATER MANAGERS"

Photo: Whatcom Creek, downtown Bellingham 12/10/21 | lizmarshall

 

12/15 Note. The excellent Zoom presentation that we watched yesterday will be on the Tacoma Tree Foundation's YouTube site at:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCbjs6bboUuh8gdVr-d-suqw

Thanks to TacomaCreates.org and all who are producing this series of educational webinars.

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On Instagram I follow Tacoma Tree Foundation and noticed this webinar about stormwater and trees happening lunchtime Tuesday December 14th. The presenter is Robb Krehbiel of the Pierce County Conservation District - https://piercecd.org/

  
https://www.instagram.com/tacomatreefoundation/p/CXKy9_eLI8y/

Here is a direct link to the Webinar registration at Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8716364921654/WN_LToqPPlJQIy6XB20_5UUvg

Maybe the brief, free webinar would be interesting to you. I registered and am looking forward to it. For background, I found some press from previous years that feature projects Robb Krehbiel has been involved in:

2016
"Fence modifications bolster pronghorn population" 
https://www.explorebigsky.com/safe-passage

2019
"Agency plans are inadequate to conserve US endangered species under climate change"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/647396v3
Alternatively: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0620-8

2019 
"Tacoma kids build rain garden to help save the orcas"
https://www.king5.com/article/news/children-build-raingarden-at-tacoma-school-to-help-orcas/281-f7ce885b-e331-4e08-9ea9-000f32dba1cf 

2019

"Washington students, activists file petition with Congress to save orcas, remove river dams"
https://abc7chicago.com/orcas-seattle-chinook-salmon-save-the/5469453/

Plastic

Ever since at least the time of "Goodbye, Columbus" with Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, we have been fouling our own home like this. It does not seem very sensible.

Capt. Charles Moore is author of the book Plastic Ocean published October 27, 2011. Please share what he has to say. The video is from TED.com.

"Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas."

Link to article:
Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic | Video on TED.com

Click to buy the book:

Cleanup

Sign up to Cleanup on September 25th.
http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=19841.0&dlv_id=21441