Neat area -- I also lived in B'ham and loved it. Lived aboard my sailboat there for a number of years as well, and absolutely loved spending weekends in the San Juans. The area seems to be much degraded since I left in 2008, as Californians moved north to avoid fires and increasing insanity.
I'm now in Michigan, because I wanted to teach myself to farm without fossil fuels using horse power. Still have the farm and the horses, but not the hope that my actions will inspire any difference in outcome.
BTW. Washington is not an isolated case. Pick a coastal region just about anywhere in the world -- Alaska, Chile, Norway, the UK, Namibia, Australia... and I can point to some major ecological problems in recent years which had not happened in recorded history. You could say that keeping track of these things is a hobby of mine.
Neat area -- I also lived in B'ham and loved it. Lived aboard my sailboat there for a number of years as well, and absolutely loved spending weekends in the San Juans. The area seems to be much degraded since I left in 2008, as Californians moved north to avoid fires and increasing insanity.
I'm now in Michigan, because I wanted to teach myself to farm without fossil fuels using horse power. Still have the farm and the horses, but not the hope that my actions will inspire any difference in outcome.
BTW. Washington is not an isolated case. Pick a coastal region just about anywhere in the world -- Alaska, Chile, Norway, the UK, Namibia, Australia... and I can point to some major ecological problems in recent years which had not happened in recorded history. You could say that keeping track of these things is a hobby of mine.