Thousands of northern elephant seals — some weighing up to 4,500 pounds — make an annual migration to breed each winter at Año Nuevo State Reserve, on the San Mateo County coast. Marine biologists are using high-tech tools to explore the secrets of these amazing creatures.
“I learned early on that if you tell people what you see at low tide they’ll think you’re exaggerating or lying when you’re actually just explaining strange and wonderful things…” (The Highest Tide, Lynch)
A beautifully illustrated overview of the rich storehouses of biodiversity underpin our quality of life, our economies and much of our cultural identity. The photographs in this book are inspiring!
This musical in a book is a refreshingly new treatment of diverse mindsets coming to terms with their relationships with the environment.
This speaks of the full circle of life and how we are all connected. The bear feeds on the salmon and as it travels it contributes to the growth and well being of all that grow on our mountains.
Would we drink the water flowing along the sides of our roads and in our stormdrains? What’s in it anyway? Where does it go?
Laura James did a great job of highlighting these questions with some video showing some of West Seattle’s crud entering Puget Sound underwater.
Oceans contain habitats as different from one another as rainforests are from deserts. From coastlines to the deepest ocean trenches there lives a vast array of marine life – some rare, some bizarre, some astonishingly beautiful.
“I’m swimming through an amazing school of different types of small fish. There’s hundreds of them, and they’re swimming along with me.”
Thursday Jan. 13, 2011 at 10:00 p.m. PBS station KBTC (from Tacoma) aired “The World Below,” a half-hour special about local videographer John F. Williams featuring some of his work.
In Ian’s Ride, Karen Polinsky tells an inspiring story of Ian Mackay learning ways to approach life after he had been paralyzed from the neck down. One of the things I especially liked about the story was how it focused on the process of finding solutions rather than dramatizing a negative view of the situation.
A five-episode series, each one about a different ocean. The underwater video is stunning, and it does a good job of pointing out ecosystem interconnections.
Cities do, indeed, have their own ecosystems. These have developed over centuries of city growth, suburb growth, and other human impacts on the lands. This book added a new dimension to my understanding of how we are impacting nature.
Earth for All was published in 2022 as a report to The Club of Rome. As I read it, I realized that it was part of a “new wave” of literature about addressing our current global problems — a wave that was based on systems thinking.
I highly recommend Homewaters — for the way it introduces the components of the Puget Sound ecosystem, but especially for how it weaves the various parts together.