Cascadia Daily, August 17, 2018

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The Battle for Wild Salmon

After Tahlequah the orca captured our attention grieving for her calf, people in Cascadia are wondering what can be done to save these critically endangered creatures. Orcas depend on a huge quantity of wild salmon, and that’s one of the reasons First Nations in the Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia are drawing attention to the damage fish farms do to wild salmon runs. Read Mychaylo Prystupa’s detailed feature on one chief’s battle to ban open-net fish farms, available online here at Cascadia Magazine.

Dams, pipelines and starving orcas

Daniel Jack Chasan, writing for Crosscut, asks if we’re ready to take the radical step required to save orcas in the Salish Sea: removing dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Meanwhile, Salon makes the connection between the Trans Mountain pipeline across BC and the 7-fold increase in traffic of oil tankers that will further threaten orcas. And of course the Trump administration loves Justin Trudeau’s new pipeline project.

E-bike shares take off in Seattle

Grist reports on how electric bikes rented out by the company Lime have taken off in Seattle– with a fleet of 1,600 e-bikes it’s the largest fleet in North America. Meanwhile, several other bike-share companies pulled out of the Seattle market but may return if scooters are legalized. Spokane will get its first bike-share program in 2019, Portland is considering truly dockless bike-share programs, and Vancouver will allow a second company to operate bike-shares in the metro area.

Vancouver warehouse real estate surge from Amazon,etc.

The Seattle Times reports that industrial real estate and warehouse space is in short supply in Vancouver BC, thanks in part to Amazon, and other major retailers such as IKEA.

British Columbia’s last salmon cannery

BC used to have a huge industry in canned salmon (it was so prevalent that soldiers in World War I grew tired of eating it). Today, as Hakai Magazine reports, there’s just one major cannery left— a thriving company that’s majority-owned by 15 Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Oregon is home to a master cartographer

About thirty miles from Eugene lives one of North America’s greatest artists–Dave Imus. But you may never have heard of him before because he makes maps–gorgeous ones. The award-winning cartographer is profiled by OPB: “Artists, I think, are people who see beauty where other people don’t see it,” [Imus] said. “That’s what I’m doing with maps, trying to show people the beauty that I see.””

BC novelists’ Cold War comic road-trip thriller

BC BookLook reviews Atomic Road, a comic crime novel by Grant Buday, who hails from Mayne Island, British Columbia. The book sounds like a rather unlikely road-trip caper, in which real-life art critic Clement Greenberg travels with the deranged philosopher Louis Althusser across the great plains of Canada to murder Greenburg’s arch-rival, fellow critic Harold Rosenberg–amid details of the Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis.

That’s today’s round-up of arts, culture, and news from across the Pacific Northwest. Have a great weekend, and do take care in all this wildfire smoke. I’ll be camping on the Olympic peninsula for a few days, and Cascadia Daily will resume on Wed. Aug. 22. –Andrew Engelson

Photo credit: Seattle bike share by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0