Sustainability, salmon and Mother Nature.

by John B Evans

Despite weather that was too cool early on, then too hot, hit and miss watering, frequent trampling by our family dog and abundant weeds… the veggies are resilient and the harvest spectacular.

Mother nature figured, after a misstep here and there with dinosaurs and such, that resilience, (the ability to adapt to a range of less than ideal conditions ) works. She also determined it is a good idea to generate a “surplus” of everything… just in case.

Judge rules against activists in San Juan County.

There are many players in the world of land use planning, regulation and governance. On one side you have property owners. On the other you have a wide range of people and groups who think they know better than anyone else how the property owner’s land should be used. These groups — including activists, politicians, neighbors, local planners, state bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and other “experts” — often disagree, but they always have an opinion.

On August 31, a Superior Court Judge in San Juan County overturned a ruling by the state’s Shoreline Hearings Board that overturned San Juan County’s issuance of a Shoreline Substantial Development Permit to build a private dock. In his ruling, Judge John Linde said that the “SHB decision overturning the permit issued by the County and disregarding the mitigation plan developed in conjunction with WDFW was arbitrary and capricious and failed to properly interpret and apply the law.”