We're getting a bit of publicity, here at Hylebos Blog Central. First, Mark Briggs' South Sound Online blog gave us a touch of the spotlight in September. Now, Seth Bynum writes in this week's Federal Way News about the Blog from the Bog and the HyleBlog. Seth also contributes material - text and photos - to the Blog from the Bog.
The Tribune, by the way, had an article recently about a large-scale tidal marsh restoration project at the Nisqually Refuge. This is an exciting project with huge, huge environmental payback.
A coalition of conservationists and fisherfolk have filed suit against the federal government challenging management of Chinook salmon populations.
Regular readers of this blog know that I tend to focus on global climate change. In an early phase of my career, I co-founded an organization that addressed the issue of climate change's impacts on the Pacific Northwest. This week's issue of Newsweek has a cover story on the link between the widespread extinctions facing a variety of amphibian species and global climate change. I hate to keep reproting this grim stuff, but it's vitally important to be aware of how the climate is changing and what the effects are on the natural world (which, as I like to remind folks, is where we live). Read the article and keep it in the back of your mind.
That same article has a companion piece that's a little more encouraging, focusing on restoration biology. Hey, that's what we do! We've disrupted the natural world to an extent that we'd better start sharpening our skills at restoration. If we want to live in a world with functional ecosystems and save some of our native species, restoration biology is the way we're going to do it.