Thanks kind Redditor! I’ve walked through the Black River Riparian area a few times, https://www.rentonwa.gov/cms/One.aspx?pageId=8838326&portalId=7922741 when I’ve visited my dad - its beautiful…. The story though is sad…. there were Natives in the area who lost their whole food supply…. their lives and their heritage were destroyed.

I went to the Worlds Fair in 1974. I was born in Moses Lake, WA… I mot definitely know where Spokane is!!!

I actually talked about the Black River as part of the Duwamish system in a different comment on this Map’s thread…. It was absolutely devastating to the natives.

Historically, The White actually was the key river in the old Duwamish system.. like instead of the Green flowing into the Duwamish, the river was called the White. a flood actually changed the course of the White and pushed it into the Puyallup…

I grew up on the Cedar in Maple Valley and then got to work on the Watershed for three summers as a young woman…. The Cedar used to flow into the Black, and the Black also drained Lake Washington…. and all of it flowed into the Green/White over by SouthCenter, and it all flowed into the Duwamish….

People have not and will not be willing to switch to an income tax unless they put ironclad language in the bill that it’s revenue neutral and that the sales tax would be permanently reduced or replaced entirely.

The news cycle has been reporting the state department of commerce has determined Washington will need a million new homes over the next 20 years, so they’re definitely prepping us for this it seems

Wasnt this an issue a few years ago and voters voted to just keep the same people?

Ohh I feel that.

We have an insane biodiverse landscape, it’s pretty incredible

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the new building is the downtown bus depot

There's no tax benefit to using a WA specific plan, so definitely shop around.

Personally, I use Fidelity's UNIQUE savings plan. Rate of return is decent, but more importantly, Fidelity's investment portal is excellent.

May as well be 2008

You referring to the black(?) river? When the gov't changed that river, it was devastating to the native tribes.

The white car is a VW Rabbit, I had one just like it except the color

I tend to process most of my photos for printing, and what works for hanging on the wall doesn’t always work as well on a screen.

Here’s a completely unmodified (except for format change from raw to jpg, and god only knows what Imgur is going to do to it) original: https://i.imgur.com/eViRNE2.jpg

While true, couldn't they have replaced them with something more pleasing to the eye?

The buildings it replaced were no loss. Liquor store and bars in a run down, 90 year old building.

The stuff I see going up in Austin now is even worse.

Senior year. Fun times.

Ross Lake National Recreation Area is part of the North Cascades National Park complex. This is super pedantic.

The best part about Washington is our wildlife.

Ok cool I pulled up the website and I will call. I also plan to contact legislative. This is just not something I agree with and want more understanding of why. I literally grew and still live close to multiple giant “working” forests. I know there are many more. I see what they are doing out on the Olympic peninsula and it’s frustrating and heartbreaking. I feel like we have to stand up to this bs.

One thing that I think is really interesting is that within, what, 70 years of their discovery, the San Juans had already been broken up into their current multi-ethnic naming conventions - a combination of the original Spanish voyage circa 1791 (San Juan, Orcas, Lopez, etc) and the subsequent English exploration undertaken by Vancouver and co in 1792 (Shaw, Sinclair, Blakely, etc) with one or two native names maintained (have always wondered how Lummi Island managed to hold on to a Salish name considering how large it is - only one up here other than Samish Island, which is essentially a peninsula, at least as far as I know)

The DNR pretty much rubber stamps permits for logging as long as they pay the fee. I think the logging fee is around $10k. If there's an avenue for change that's it. It may be a matter of ensuring existing rules are upheld or it could take getting the rules changed. I'm not getting into that legal quagmire though. Go for it. Get the details and talk to the DNR and other folks that have an interest in a better regulated process

I use dream ahead. In conversation with Fidelity, they said it was similar to theirs. Don’t bother moving it.