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CiviC Meetings
Birch Bay Water & Sewer District: Second and fourth Thursdays, 4 p.m., district offices, 7096 Point Whitehorn Road, Birch Bay. Info and Zoom meeting link: bbwsd.com.
Blaine City Council: Second and fourth Mondays, 6 p.m., Blaine City Council chambers, 435 Martin Street. Info and virtual meeting login: ci.blaine.wa.us.
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Blaine Planning Commission: Second Thursday, 6 p.m.
Info: blainepc@cityofblaine.com. Info for joining Zoom meetings: bit.ly/3EwWiZi.
diminished for the next three years.
Not only do we need to know when and where hypoxic events are happening, we also need to understand how low dissolved oxygen affects the ecosystem.
Quinault is partnering with Oregon State University and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission to send robotic gliders to the seafloor to measure dissolved oxygen. And tribes – including Quinault – and nontreaty crabbers have taken action by attaching oxygen sensors to crab pots.
But we need to do more than monitor hypoxia. We need to address climate change on a global scale through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. We need to cut down our worldwide dependence on fossil fuels, remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and reduce the amount of nutrients released into our oceans from agriculture and wastewater.
We’re seeing this decline of oxygen levels in oceans all over the world. As Billy said, the oceans are important to all of us. We need leadership and collective action to protect marine life from dead zones and to prevent climate change from making this crisis worse.
The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission is an Olympia-based natural resources management support service organization for 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington.
Blaine-Birch Bay Park and Recreation: Second Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., location varies. Info: bbbparkandrec.org.
Blaine Park and Cemetery Board: Second Thursday, 9 a.m., council chambers and virtual meeting. Info: 360/332-8311, ext. 3330.
Blaine School Board: Fourth Monday, 7 p.m., Blaine school district offices. Info: blainesd.org.
North Whatcom Fire & Rescue: Third Thursday, 11 a.m., Station 61 at 9408 Odell Road and via Zoom. Info: nwfrs.net.
