#State of Washington

[sherrylephotography]

@sherrylephotography 5/22

Rialto Beach, yet another picture taken from this spot. If you are like me you will take many many many pictures all just a little different from the same spot.

posted 5/23

#rialto beach #state of washington #beach #original photographer on tumblr #my photography #sherrylephotogaphy #road trip #vacation #usa

[rabbitcruiser]

The State of Washington was admitted as the 42nd state of the United States on November 11, 1889.

#Oroville #Osoyoos Lake #Omak #Chelan #Cashmere #Earthquake Point #Yakima River Canyon #Maryhill Stonehenge Memorial by Sam Hill #Fort Columbia Historical State Park #State of Washington #US state #11 November 1889 #anniversary #travel #US history #ÙSA #Seattle #Space Needle #2012 #summer 2017 #vacation #original photography #cityscape #landscape #Olympia #Washington State Capitol #Olympic National Park #Pacific Ocean #Potlatch State Park

[reality-detective]

JUST IN: Washington state has officially banned the death penalty.

Washington state essentially has no laws. Lawmakers took away the ability for police to pursue criminals, and prosecutors refuse to prosecute said criminals. Now, the state just took away the death penalty. Criminals already know they won’t be held accountable whatsoever. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourself #educate yourselves #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think for yourself #think for yourselves #think about it #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #do your research #question everything #ask yourself questions #ask yourself #washington state #state of washington

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

Two top Democrats in Washington State have come out in favor of eventually breaching four hydroelectric dams in the lower Snake River to try to save endangered salmon runs, a contentious option that environmentalists, tribes and business groups in the region have argued over for decades.

In recommendations issued on Thursday, Senator Patty Murray and Gov. Jay Inslee provided their most definitive stance in the fight to save salmon in the Columbia River basin and honor longstanding treaties with tribal nations in the Pacific Northwest.

A draft version of a study that Ms. Murray and Mr. Inslee commissioned found this summer that removing the four dams was the most promising approach to salmon recovery. The report said it would cost $10.3 billion to $27.2 billion to replace the electricity generated by the dams, find other ways to ship grain from the region and provide irrigation water. But the draft stopped short of taking a position on removing the dams.

In the recommendations, the governor and the senator said that breaching the dams “must be an option we strive to make viable.”

Ms. Murray said in a statement that salmon runs were clearly struggling, and that extinction of the region’s salmon was not an option. But because breaching the dams would need congressional authorization and bipartisan support, she said, there had to be credible possibilities for replacing renewable energy sources, keeping shipping costs down and countering the effects of climate change.

“It’s clear that breach is not an option right now,” Ms. Murray said. “While many mitigation measures exist, many require further analysis or are not possible to implement in the near term.”

Washington State relies heavily on hydroelectric power generated through dams. But the structures have contributed to the depletion of the salmon population, which is critical to the river basin’s ecosystem. In 2019, state lawmakers passed some of the country’s strongest clean energy legislation, committing to cut coal power by 2025 and transition the state to 100 percent clean and renewable electricity by 2045. Removing the dams would make it more challenging to meet those goals.

#State of Washington #hydroelectric power #dams #salmon #Snake River #dam removal

[bonesashesglass]

I haven’t seen anyone talk about this, which makes me think it isn’t being reported, but right now the largest protest for Palestine in the history of the United States is taking place in Washington DC. Thousands turned up to show their solidarity for Palestine and to call for a ceasefire.

Look at this, they won’t be able to ignore us for much longer.

#Palestine #free palestine #save palestine #Gaza #free Gaza #save Gaza #stand with palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #Israel #anti israeli terrorism #ceasefire #call for ceasefire #stop the genocide #anti censorship #United States #protest #Washington DC #freedom plaza #America #us citizens #Gaza strip #solidarity

[maureen2musings]

In the early morning hours

fernlichtsicht

#washington state #sunrise #golden #mountains #forest #horizon #curators on tumblr

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#washington state department #work #tweets #meme #memes #tweet #twitter #funny #lol

[hometoursandotherstuff]

And, now a word from the Washington State DNR. 

#washington state #cougars #other stuff

[aestum]

(by Jordan Steranka)

#vertical #landscape #x #a #watsf #curators on tumblr #water #trees #Jordan Steranka #moon #railroad #Bellingham #United States #washington

[sherrylephotography]

@sherrylephotography May 2022

Olympic National Park, state of Washington, USA

You know you are in a rain-forest when you see all this wonderful tree moss.

#olympic national park #state of washington #hoh rainforest #usa #original photographer on tumblr #sherrylephotogaphy #gimp #road trip #vacation

[rhiannatruex]

Hooded Merganser

#Queueue #bird #bird watching #birdwatching #birds #birb #birdwatchers #birdblr #Original Photography #photography #my photography #original photographer #photographers of tumblr #photographers on tumblr #lensblr #original photography blog #nature photography #nature #uncropped nature #wildlife #wildlife photography #wildlife photographer #critter #animal #washington state #west coast best coast #pnw #upper left corner #PNW Vibes #wa state

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Earth Island Journal:

A Pacific marten has been recorded by a motion-triggered wildlife camera, marking the first time the species has been recorded by a camera survey in Olympic National Forest.

As part of an ongoing collaboration, Woodland Park Zoo partnered with Olympic National Forest last summer to install six motion-triggered camera and scent dispenser stations in the National Forest in hopes of detecting martens, a rare native carnivore thought to be occurring there in only very sparse numbers. A month ago, the survey team returned to the station and discovered multiple photos of a single Pacific marten, which had visited the station in January 2022.

Only two dozen marten sightings have been confirmed on the Olympic Peninsula in the last half century, with half of these attributed to surveys with remote cameras and scent dispensers over the last few years and all in Olympic National Park.

Historically, marten populations in Washington primarily occurred in two disjunct areas, the Cascade Range and the Olympic Peninsula. Marten populations in the Cascades generally inhabit forests at high elevations and appear to be relatively stable.

On the Olympic Peninsula, martens once occupied a broad elevational range, from coastline to timberline. However, due to over-trapping and habitat loss in the 1900s, they appear to be gone at lower elevations and to occur at very low densities at higher elevations.

#Pacific Marten #Olympic National Forest #State of Washington

[pickleweed2]

Intricate cascading roots on a Western Hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla.

Olympic National Park| 11-30-2023

#Western Hemlock #Tsuga #dendrophilia #forest #trees #forest floor #olympic peninsula #olympic national park #washington state #pnw #pacific northwest #nikon #pnw photography #original photographers

[intersectionalpraxis]

"Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington becomes the first University in the US to fully divest from Israel." [@/CallForCongress on X. May 3, 2024.]

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #freepalastine🇵🇸 #current events #current news #rachel corrie #united states #washington #evergreen state college

[i-am-aprl]

Activists project the names and faces of the 125 journalists murdered in Gaza outside the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, DC

#washington #washington dc #palestine #gaza #free palestine #israel #jerusalem #i stand with palestine #فلسطين #free gaza #israel is a terrorist state #israeli war crimes #Israel is targeting journalists

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#washington state department #memes #meme #lol #funny #tweets #tweet #twitter