SV Tatoosh

2011-12-28T11:34:00.000-08:00

Camera captures new wolf pup, bringing Oregon's wolf population to 25

2011-12-22T08:48:00.001-08:00

"I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone. What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by, the dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. " Sterling Hayden

2011-12-11T17:32:00.000-08:00

Oregon's Wandering Wolf

2011-11-17T08:52:00.000-08:00

TAO STAR now coming across the bar...arriving from Jakarta. Above: tied up in Portland.

2011-11-04T10:13:00.000-07:00

Buffleheads all over the place.

SYNOPSIS FOR WASHINGTON AND OREGON WATERS
A HIGH PRES RIDGE WILL MOVE SE ACROSS THE WATERS TODAY...BEFORE A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO SAT. LOW PRES WILL MOVE SE OVER THE WATERS SAT AND SAT NIGHT...BEFORE A HIGH PRES RIDGE BUILDS E OVER THE REGION SUN. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE E ACROSS THE WATERS MON. LOW PRES WILL DEVELOP TO THE W OF THE AREA TUE WITH A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE W.

Continueing rigging work...Norsemans and new wire.

2011-11-02T09:45:00.000-07:00

Early AM walk with the labs...north side of Youngs Bay. Mallards heading south. Later at mid-day, a pair of killdeer darting around.

2011-10-09T13:36:00.000-07:00

2011-09-09T09:37:00.000-07:00

Off to Amtrak from Astoria....north to Lopez Island....south to San Francisco. Offshore 10 days. Aboard SV TRIMMING OUT.

2011-05-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

Warming Arctic opens way to competition for resources

In the diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks, there was no dispute about rapid warming underway. The predominant questions revolved around how the region’s newly accessible resources would be carved up.

2011-05-14T07:39:00.000-07:00

AK Senators Push for Arctic Fishing Ban

2011-05-08T11:42:00.000-07:00

distant virga
the ranch dog's eyes
different colors

Allan Burns

2011-04-24T11:22:00.000-07:00

A Traditional Seal Hunt In Nunatsiavut

2011-04-10T14:42:00.000-07:00

Conservation Society of Pohnpei

2011-04-10T10:42:00.000-07:00

Cook Inlet beluga whales gain critical habitat

2011-04-09T13:06:00.000-07:00

A Mischief of Rats: Cleaning up with Island Conservation

2011-04-01T12:53:00.000-07:00

Off and running in Sitka

2011-03-29T13:54:00.000-07:00

Aleut looks to join Steller sea lion fight

2011-03-23T09:57:00.000-07:00

Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

2011-03-22T10:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.passageweather.com/
Warmer Arctic could increase threat of disease for caribou, other foods.......Daily Sea Ice Images

In the winter river,
discarded, an old dog's
carcass

SHIKI (1887-1902)
Translated by Sam Hamill

2011-03-18T14:05:00.000-07:00

Deckboss
All hands are waiting for herring in Sitka Sound.

2011-03-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

Antarctic ice sheet grows from below

2011-03-09T14:43:00.000-08:00

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2011/03/cold-and-wind.html

2011-03-08T17:50:00.000-08:00

http://www.henkdevelde.com/

2011-03-07T13:23:00.000-08:00

Alaska-Canada caribou herd rebounds, survey shows

2011-03-03T16:47:00.000-08:00

In Arctic, climate-change threats include giardia, food poisoning
New salmon species are beginning to populate rivers for the first time, creating an important new subsistence opportunity.

2011-02-26T09:58:00.001-08:00

Oldest subarctic North American human remains found

2011-02-26T08:45:00.000-08:00

Steller sea lions munching sturgeon at record clip at Bonneville Dam

2011-02-23T12:40:00.000-08:00

NOAA hearings set for ringed, bearded seals

2011-02-20T09:48:00.000-08:00

Alaska Peninsula wolves are seafood connoisseurs

Romulus and Remus nursed by the She-wolf by Peter Paul Rubens, Rome, Capitoline Museums

2011-02-17T12:25:00.001-08:00

Senator seeks Alaska subsistence review

2011-02-17T11:06:00.000-08:00

Distant thunder—
the flick of a lizard's tail
among the rocks

Rebecca Lilly

2011-02-13T09:44:00.000-08:00

Eight old, cultural objects illegally sold to an east coast museum in the 1920s are returning home to the T’akdeintaan Clan, Snail House, of Hoonah.

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/155653#ixzz1DrVH01ge

2011-02-10T13:43:00.000-08:00

Winter wren popping
from limb to limb.
Yellow lab squats to piss.

2011-01-21T13:51:00.000-08:00

Float coat fashion: A simple idea could mean safer whaling

2010-12-18T14:44:00.001-08:00

Pineapple Express waiting on an Aleutian spiral.
Swirling south.

2010-12-05T13:21:00.000-08:00

National monument status urged for Arctic refuge

Stellar jay gliding
easy through red evening sun.
Charlie Parker.

2010-11-23T13:41:00.000-08:00

Shell's Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland and Culture
Rosemary Ahtuangaruak.Inupiaq activist and founding board member of REDOIL

2010-09-24T09:37:00.000-07:00

Cliff Mass Weather Blog

2010-09-17T17:57:00.000-07:00

Guide to Polar Tech 2011: Part 1 - Basics
Guide to Polar Tech 2011: Part 2--Web and multimedia

2010-06-13T11:43:00.000-07:00

Now snorting fossils
line after line slick and compressed.
Entertainment Tonight.

2010-06-10T07:52:00.000-07:00

there
where the fire was
something blooming

                         Taneda Santōka
                        For All My Walking
                         Translated by Burton Watson

2010-06-09T17:52:00.000-07:00

Fawn turns gazes
scrambles through ferns into second growth.
HOME & ACREAGE

2010-05-31T18:15:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day rain,
a blue-tongued skink charging down
the new plastic tarp

2010-05-30T18:06:00.000-07:00

Re-blogged from Season Creep

2010-05-29T19:43:00.000-07:00

Nunivak Island 1936 August National Marine Fisheries Service

Another shot fired in the battle between the feds and the state over predator control on Unimak Island ...

carrion beetles
inside the deer skull
- spring cleaning

Jim Tantillo

2010-05-28T09:03:00.000-07:00

10:27 p.m., May 18: Domestic Disturbance – Officers mediated a dispute between two men in a boarding house after one man, who had failed to clean his rice pot this morning, found it in his bed when he returned from work.

Slick humpback passing
now through Aleutian winter low.
Leaving Dutch Harbor.

2010-05-27T08:27:00.003-07:00

A gushing burble,// a riddle-wrapped enigma,// just like time and tide.

2010-05-23T10:31:00.000-07:00

Within minutes we were on near the crash site and were able to follow the signal given by the ELT. Whiteout conditions and high winds made the search difficult. We noticed a man waiving his arms and knew that something had gone wrong. We were not able to see the helicopter as first, since it had gone down in a lower part of the mountain. We gained altitude to try and get a better visual and gained visual on the helicopter and a second man walking around the down helicopter. We also noticed dogs and could count a few but had no idea that there were seven total.

Pineapple express
licks coast range doug fir all day.
Yellow labs double date.

2010-05-21T19:50:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday, at 4:45 p.m., Alaska State Troopers in Bethel flew to Newtok after they were notified of a physical altercation involving a knife. Investigation revealed that Tom John (age 52 of Bethel) became intoxicated from drinking homebrew alcohol which he had manufactured on his property and then stabbed a family member with a knife during an altercation. Investigation further revealed that Bernice John had imported alcohol into Newtok on 5-11-2010.

Forty years flirting...
sitting with the Green Tara.
Never getting laid.

2010-05-21T19:38:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday, at 4:35 p.m., Bethel AST was notified of an overdue hunter from the community of Nunam Iqua. Edward Adams Sr. 68, departed Nunam Iqua at 9:30 a.m. hours with an expected return time of 5 p.m. When he failed to return...

Even in summer
I pack heat driving to eat.
Cougar at twilight.

2010-05-21T19:05:00.000-07:00

snowy egrets slip in while I dream of Argentina

old pajamas: from the dirt hut

2010-05-20T17:30:00.000-07:00

So it was May 5 11:30 p.m. ... making hot water, tea, coffee at my tent in front of the cage, telling Ricky Roy and Jason we needed those to be out by the water all night/day. And when the second to the last whale to be cut up headed out to the water just us three ... unlocked and loaded one harpoon in the boat and one on the ice by a point where they been going most of the time. So I kept the harpoon in the boat on the right side and told Jason, 'this is where you are,' and set up my harpoon with the superbomb on the ice.

Western sandpiper
surfing on milehigh jet stream.
Siberian summer.

2010-05-20T15:42:00.000-07:00

Slick fossils compressed

and now laid up my nose.

Managed minerals.

2010-05-19T17:58:00.000-07:00

The latest satellite pictures shows a profound enhancement of the high clouds around this system (see above).

2010-05-18T22:02:00.000-07:00

The models are all on the same page now, confirming that the Northwest...and particularly our coastal regions...will be dealing with a serious storm event.

2010-05-18T07:43:00.001-07:00

2010-05-17T22:02:00.000-07:00

Missing Nunam Iqua hunter, 68, found on the Bering Sea Coast

2010-05-15T18:40:00.001-07:00

Carlo Rossi Paisano
nine bucks a gallon.
The good socialist.

2010-05-15T10:41:00.000-07:00

MAY 14 DAY 1118 THE FIRST SCHOOL OF TUNA IN A FEW WEEKS PASSED BY & I DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO STOCK UP ON FISH FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. IN QUICK SUCCESSION I LANDED 3 TUNA. VERY LIGHT CONTRARY WINDS SUIT OUR SLOW PACE. VOID HO!

1000days.net

2010-05-14T19:00:00.000-07:00

Seen from space
the hurricane
a gray storm-flower

Kris Lindbeck

Reblogged from Open Micro

2010-05-13T19:50:00.000-07:00

Walking like an old man already...
another bomb into it.
Cutting up whales.

YP

2010-05-13T09:31:00.000-07:00

Basho’s Road

2010-05-12T17:13:00.000-07:00

lightning--

girdled by waves

islands of Japan

Buson 1777

Translation - Haruo Shirane

2010-05-11T09:47:00.000-07:00

MV Tatoosh

2010-05-09T09:59:00.000-07:00

Cumulus congestus...western Olympics

2010-05-08T10:29:00.000-07:00

Buzzards tiptoe
around the possum.
Leaning towards foreclosure.

YP

2010-05-08T09:26:00.000-07:00

Chile’s new center-right government confirmed this week that its indigenous policy will be directed more towards helping urban Mapuches find productive work and development, and much less on the acquisition of contested rural properties and their redistribution to Mapuche communities. The new policy represents a sharp break with the land redistribution policies that were initiated under previous center-left governments.

2010-05-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

Above...ships' tracks.

The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico said Thursday its contract with BP should protect it from lawsuits by fishermen, hotel owners and other businesses damaged by the massive oil spill. Transocean Ltd. CEO Steven Newman said the company won't be held liable for "any expense or claim related to pollution" from the well.

2010-05-06T10:58:00.000-07:00

For Sushi at Home, Skip the Fish

2010-05-05T09:08:00.000-07:00

Threatened Koktuli River deserves protection

2010-05-04T19:01:00.000-07:00

Work Halted on Oregon Liquefied Natural Gas Port

Western sandpiper
surfing on milehigh jet stream.
Siberian summer.

YP

2010-05-03T08:34:00.001-07:00

got oil?

2010-05-01T08:18:00.000-07:00

Forty years flirting...
sitting with the Green Tara.
Never getting laid.

YP

2010-04-30T08:17:00.001-07:00

North Pacific Transients: 'Unique' population of killer whales identified off B.C. coast

2010-04-21T10:16:00.000-07:00

Clever crows can use three tools

2010-04-17T10:57:00.001-07:00

Wren crashes into window.
Time to go to work.

YP

2010-04-16T09:11:00.000-07:00

Mars Petcare launch bluefin tuna as cat food

Chile's fish farming woes could be Alaska's wild salmon's boon

Stellar jays still complaining

YP

2010-04-10T08:52:00.000-07:00

A low from the west
and the ball point pen jambs.
Squid invade the Oregon coast.

YP

2010-04-09T19:03:00.000-07:00

The Obama administration has decided to reintroduces the rough outlines of an offshore ocean aquaculture policy dating back more than a decade.

2010-04-08T08:59:00.000-07:00

Feds want to barge young salmon past Snake dams

rain in gusts
below the deadhead
troutswirl

John Wills

2010-04-06T16:58:00.000-07:00

AK lawmakers may drop battle over belugas

Lean-to of tin;
a pintail on the river
in the pelting rain.

Robert Spiess

2010-04-06T09:23:00.000-07:00

Salmon Industry Upset With Legal Challenge To Chile’s New Fishing Law

2010-04-05T19:17:00.000-07:00

Bluefin tuna battle involves lots of money...

2010-04-04T10:16:00.000-07:00

taking a leisurely pee
in lush sprouting grass

Taneda Santoka

2010-04-02T18:10:00.000-07:00

The Taku is an opportunity to conserve wild salmon

Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon will get a reprieve from offshore petroleum drilling under a new federal plan.

the geese fly off...
and now it comes to me
that I am still here

H.F. Noyes

2010-04-01T18:49:00.000-07:00

For tradition-rich halibut fisherman, the future looks prosperous

Yukon River board lowers king escapement goal

Chitina fishery to remain personal use

New Zealand calls for whaling compromise

2010-04-01T09:04:00.000-07:00

Radiant cheeks
preparing dinner at the sink.
Loving doublewides.

YP

2010-03-31T17:31:00.000-07:00

perching on a mud wall ｽﾕｱｫ､ﾎﾅﾚﾊｽ､ﾋ､ﾈ､ﾞ､・ｨ､ｫ､ﾊ
in the spring rain
a crow

Shiki

2010-03-30T19:32:00.000-07:00

Interior Dept. to decide Alaska offshore drilling

Gill-netting on Columbia River open

North Pacific albacore tuna fisheries earn MSC certification

Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics and Diplomacy - Professor Jun Morikawa

Yes, spring has come
This morning a nameless hill
Is shrouded in mist.

Basho
Translation - R.H. Blyth

2010-03-29T16:42:00.000-07:00

The Pew Environment Group has launched unique campaign to protect bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dusk over the lake
a turtle's head emerges
then silently sinks

Virgil Hutton

2010-03-28T10:21:00.000-07:00

How bureaucrats decided not to save the bluefin tuna

dog shit
or me
the fly doesn't care

Stanford M. Forrester

2010-03-27T10:05:00.000-07:00

Robin Pete Mosca

Japan big winner at UN conservation meeting

after pufferfish soup
soon fans
are flitting

Issa

2010-03-26T09:20:00.000-07:00

Soft staccato
woodpecker drumming hours now.
Stellar jay complains.

YP

2010-03-25T09:45:00.000-07:00

Suit Filed to Protect Habitat for California's Endangered Black Abalone

parting her pink robe
- daybreak

Yu Chang

2010-03-24T09:24:00.000-07:00

Program aims to limit accidental salmon catch

WASHINGTON AND OREGON WATERS

daybreak
coyote's Charlie Parker
impromptu

John Brandi

2010-03-23T08:57:00.000-07:00

AK coal project plans to mine through salmon stream

Oregon and Washington biologists decided against a spring chinook commercial fishery in the Columbia on Tuesday

WASHINGTON AND OREGON WATERS

from the eaves
an occasional drip
closer to spring

an'ya

2010-03-22T09:59:00.000-07:00

Alaska examines salmon DNA to pinpoint origins

WASHINGTON AND OREGON WATERS

Middle of the road
long white twisted braid of hair.
Old coyote scat.

                             YP

2010-03-21T15:08:00.000-07:00

wheel ruts
deep in second growth
dappled light

Tom Painting

2010-03-20T10:40:00.000-07:00

SF Bay Delta Water Pumping Restrictions To Protect Fish 'Scientifically Justified'

WASHINGTON AND OREGON WATERS

Big dogs wrestling. Owl!
Flies checking out orifices.
Early AM sit.

YP

2010-03-19T10:07:00.000-07:00

Shell Oil fleet headed to Unalaska

WASHINGTON AND OREGON WATERS

From puddle
to puddle:
the moon.

Paul Reps