Aloha Ides of March Friday
The Roman calendar, which dates back to 753 BCE, had three
fixed points throughout the month: Nones, Ides, and Kalends. Ides
took place around the midpoint of each month, occurring on the
13th or 15th. In March it took place on the 15th. The Ides of
March is most remembered as being the anniversary of the day that
Julius Caesar was assassinated, in 44 BCE. It is believed that a
seer had warned Caesar that harm would come to him on the Ides of
March. In William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, the
seer has ascribed the phrase "Beware the Ides of March." Caesar
was stabbed to death at a meeting of the Senate at the Theatre of
Pompey.
Removing
WA salmon barriers surges to $1M a day, but results are murky
Washington, rushing to meet a court deadline in a tribal fishing
rights lawsuit, spends billions on construction, but some of it
may be useless for salmon today.
Sea
otter's return opened path to restore West Coast salt marsh
The multi-decadal study, carried out in central California, could
hold lessons for British Columbia, whose sea otter population was
nearly exterminated through decades of poaching.
Flurry
of mini earthquakes off Vancouver Island hints at undersea
expansion
Swarms of mini earthquakes along tectonic plates five kilometres
underwater on the Pacific Ocean floor off the coast of Vancouver
Island have caught the attention of ocean scientists because they
point to an “impending magmatic rupture” on the Juan de Fuca
Ridge, 240 km from Vancouver Island.
Companies
to pay for Duwamish salmon, wildlife habitat restoration
Several industrial businesses have agreed to pay for the harm they
caused to natural resources in the lower Duwamish River as part of
two proposed settlements announced in recent days.
As
the Northwest spring arrives, so do anxieties over water for
farming, and summer wildfires
Across the Northwest, federal, state and regional officials are in
general accord, there isn’t enough snow and with the start of
spring just days away, the next couple of weeks will determine
just how challenging it could get this summer for agricultural
irrigators, fish and wildfires.
A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals
Over the past year, electric utilities have nearly doubled their
forecasts of how much additional power they’ll need by 2028 as they
confront an unexpected explosion in the number of data centers, an
abrupt resurgence in manufacturing driven by new federal laws, and
millions of electric vehicles being plugged in.
Province seeks input on plan to protect Clayoquot Sound
The province is seeking public input on proposals to establish 77,000
hectares of protected, old-growth forest around Clayoquot Sound — about
70 per cent of which is more than 250 years old.
The world’s largest ‘dark sky sanctuary’ is now in Oregon
A section of southeastern Oregon is now home to the largest “dark sky
sanctuary” in the world. The area spans 2.5 million acres of Lake
County. It was certified this month by DarkSky International, a
U.S.-based nonprofit that aims to reduce light pollution.
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