Older Material on site dates 2002 & earlier

Junes flowers crescendo with links to individual species

Look at beginning commercial salmon season & Skeena R

Boyle & Dean FDP --last one ever? (New Era)-- No Small business has one till June

Spring migration: NEW 2001__ Distinguishing all those  shorebirds-- 

 What about the Trumpeter Swans at the campgrounds?

And spring is a time for 'ancient' plants (liverworts) to surface in Rainforest 

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Reviewing Small Business forest development plans  An opportunity to explore what is available on the web to aid in "Landscape level"  Can even see the clearcuts (2nd growth) in Tuck Inlet area.---See examples--Tuck Inlet (needless roads); The Skeena Estuary (Smith & Kennedy) destroying tourist attraction; Banks Island best for landscape approach, Mid Banks Island

CBC's Almanac looks (again) at Oil & Gas moratorium show from PR Feb 11th: lots of voices 

New    Hecate Straits marine life: intertidal: Winter Festival among among Nucella snails
Diatoms: now you see them now you don't; or Wayward "goose barnacles"

Gale = 30' waves in Hecate

_{Seismic hazards in Hecate played down by Technical report? includes high waves analysis for Atlantic storm which is not comparable to even a gale in Hecate}

Seasonal cycles but not all same; this year cooler oceans

predicting PR rain? Easier now 
Gales in Hecate as seen by newer tools on WWW

  Extra Foods is still on strike in PR (last news Jan 7th) 
-- Union, Mall and local franchise owner in  confrontations -- written Oct  25th.

New Is airport bus terminal going to be Cow Bay or Highliner Inn:  parking or politics?  

TV in Rupert: cross between Oprah & Survivors?

An opinion piece on CBC's oil & gas panel held at  Cowpucchino's Wednesday-- Debbie Jeffrey emerging as clear, caring alternative to main stream politicians

In the distance a ray of light as pulp prices may have bottomed out-- rising for last 8 weeks

NEW Rupert Weather link page_ main links updated to 11/01

SEAFOOD Forum on Aquaculture- The first day now available as interpreted  by LG; SAT to follow 

  Overwaites foundations are shaky -- like PR?-- 
a morality tale about relying on Hog Fuel and pulp mills

Slide closes trail to Seal Cove -- forever? --
Houses upslope not rain is real problem

mparing Hays creek mudflat changes over the years

Marine Harvest/ bcsf had an aquaculture forum in PR Wednesday. Because it was well reported in local media I have treated it more like a movie review that could be called:. Let the people speak

How high did the sea come during the last ice age in PR area??

Late July --Sockeye salmon at peak;; springs slowing; pinks begin

Meanwhile the Skeena River discharge has peaked and runoff slowing 

Vancouver's Province Newspaper does a story on PR and its wish for Hecate Oil wealth 

Pulp Prices have begun to fall. Recent media articles state Skeena Cellulose Pulp Mill is unprofitable at prices below $600. Prognosis-- TROUBLE AHEAD

Experimental---Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach and short listed for the Giller prize reading in Prince Rupert. Videos Provided; 
plus Gaudy update for Hourly Marine Weathers on WWW 

CounterSpin 2: reconsidering Avi and his message

Watching Winter Storms in Hecate & Prince Rupert using WWW Feb 1-2 storm

in economy a look at Rupert's downtown and a new structural reason for its decline--the loss of EI payments  ---closed down businesses

Hecate Strait Groundfish new page; see Pacific cod; Pacific Ocean Perch; and sablefish. The flatfish will be done next.  Plus a map showing who owns the tree licences regionally and what they cut .see map  
And here is a map of the sensitive habitats in Prince Rupert Harbour--it would make a good school project to monitor some sites

In Nature see-- Using video camera for birding-- with links to several other several pages including wood ducks and videos  PLUS New Mushrooms-- See winter one and Tooth fungi for now

Land Snail Morse Creek area  New Series--- using WWW to study nature First look at using GPS and photos for Rupert trail guide. Then try the August 2000 Hays Creek  trail; with experimental video

Skeena Sockeye Conservation Crisis 1905 and 1999

New regime? mixed stock replacing MSY? 

OBI#2 Barge processor was in Rupert

2000 Season Salmon fishing  summary-- PR DFO

Included this month are several new pieces on regional rocks starting from the perspective of "street art" as in stone walls. That leads to broader discussion of metamorphic rocks with links to outside reference material.

Native Visions is a good book on aesthetics and history of NW Native Arts. See Tsimshian wealth chests as model for Browns discussion.

The 'Be your own WEATHER forecaster page has been updated with pictures and new links to marine, La Nina etc.

I have included an old article on closing of Co-op Cannery for several reasons -- there is the broader question of what form of business organization is appropriate in today's conditions. Links in recycled article to transaction theory (good) and UBC prof who did his Masters on Co-op.

The mountains around us are almost SIGNATURES OF PLACE. Which is a series looking at local mountains.

And for less strenuous nature watching here is Rupert's HAYS CREEK TRAIL on web.

More in Nature folder where I have also included beginning of series on Skeena River. Looks at the Ecstall River and Windsor Point (Hot Springs) for now.

See also the Table of Contents files