By Madrona Murphy and Russel Barsh

Many people are con-cerned these days about the effects of cellphones, Wifi and similar devices on

bees. Most scientists that study pollinators are more concerned about pesti-cides, however. Indeed, the European Commission voted in April 2013 to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in EU member countries, while no comparable action has been taken to address claims that radio frequency signals cause bee colony collapse. So what’s behind the buzz over cellphones?

The experimental evi-dence is limited to a few studies that placed cordless phone bases or cell phones in honeybee hives and observed changes in behav-

ior. In one study, bees made warning sounds (“piping”) in the presence of active cell phones. In another study, bees were less likely to return to hives where electronic devices had been installed.

Bees’ ability to detect and avoid an electromag-netic field does not by itself establish that EMF harms bees. Beekeepers know that piping is a response to many kinds of foreign objects. Our own bodies sense heat far below the level at which it is harmful. We taste a grain of salt (not harmful) as well as a bucket of seawater (quite bad to drink), and we smell tiny traces of sulfur diox-ide (“rotten eggs”) at well below hazardous levels.

Can so-called “electros-mog” (total ambient radio frequency EMF) interfere

with bee navigation? Some animals appear to orient themselves and navigate using the earth’s magnetic field, including pigeons,

fruit flies, and some bats. Radio frequency EMF is not magnetic, however, unlike the low frequency EMF generated by power lines. Honeybees and bumblebees appear to be mainly visual navigators, moreover, using the angle of the sun and internal biological clocks to compute their positions.

Bumblebees have also been observed making short test flights and look-ing back to their nests, apparently making visual maps of their vicinity. And a study just published last fall discovered that bumblebees compute the shortest routes

to flower patches before they leave their nests.

When a bumblebee lands on a flower to collect nectar and pollen, it discharges the flower’s weak static electric charge. Research published earlier this year shows that bees avoid flowers that have been discharged. Presumably they can sense the charge, the way we humans sense static elec-tricity in our hair. This still does not link bee behavior with radio frequency EMF, any more than the human ability to feel and hear static electricity demonstrates that we can feel radio fre-quency transmissions.

Dr. Albert Manville of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in an official 2009 review of the

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will be presenting our fantastic 4th of July show soon!

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generously & show your Lopezian spirit!

Thank you for your support & enthusiasm.

See you there!

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5K Run & Walk1 Mile RompPre-register Tues. & Wed.

July 2nd & 3rd at the Market noon - 4Save $5

Registration at Islanders Bank July 4Adults $30 with T-Shirt, $20 without; 12 and under $25 with

T-Shirt, $15 without; 7-8:10 amStart time 8:30 am sharp

Lopez Center Wednesday, July 3, 7:30 pm

Abbey Road LIVE!Outdoors weather

permittingGreat dance band

$15/adult $8/youthLopez Bookshop, Blossom Grocery, Paper Scissors,

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Lopez Center — Outdoor PavilionAfter the parade 11:30 am — 2 pm

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Join us for cake!June 30, 1 -3 p.m.

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june 25- 27sports: Golf Clinic , 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Lopez Golf Club. Ages 8 to adult, $45 fee. Learn fundamentals of grip, stance, swing, and ball contact. Bring your own 7 iron and putter or bor-

row ours. Pre-registration required thru LIFRC, 468-4117, or register online at www.lifrc.org.

tues, june 25outdoors: Seaweed Ramble, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Meet Agate Beach Parking

Lot. Ages 6 to adult, (6-12 year olds must register with paying registered adult), $30 fee. Dr. Ryan Drum will identify sea-weeds and discuss harvest-ing, and edible/medicinal plant uses on one of the lowest tides of the sum-mer. Pre-registration required thru LIFRC, 468-4117, or register online at www.lifrc.org.

sat, june 29sports: Ping Pong Tournament, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Multi-Purpose-Room

at Lopez School. The entry fee is $30/person. The tournament will ben-efit the Nicaragua Service Learning Trip. Contact Chase Schober at 360 468-4691 to register.

weds, july 3music: The Overton Berry Trio with Eugenie Jones, Vocalist, Hawk Arps, 2 p.m., on the lawn at the Lopez Islander. For informa-tion www.livemusiconlo-pez.com.

thurs, july 4books: Friends of the

Lopez Island Library July 4 Book Sale, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. The Book Sale features a great selection of used books, videos, and audio-books. Shop at the Friends Corner Store offering book bags, sweatshirts, T-shirts, hats and mugs for sale.

weds, july 10golf: Business Gold League, Build your own DREAM TEAM and play a fun 9-hole competition

after work at Lopez Island Golf Course. Members: $5; Non-members $15. Registration 5 p.m. Tee off 5:30. Contact Esa Turunen for more informa-tion at 468-3603 or esa.turunen62@gmail.com.

sun, ongoingmarket: Lopez Island Farmers’ Market, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Lopez Island Farmer’s Market next to the Community Center on Village Road North Running through Sept. 14.

CommunityCalendar

Upcoming events

Lopez Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings:

Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterWednesdays - 4 p.m. - Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal ChurchFridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s CenterSaturdays - noon at the Children’s CenterContact phone number 468-2809

Al-Anon:Saturdays - 9:30 a.m. at the Children’s Center, Lopez.Contact phone number 468-4703.

Beatles tribute com-ing to Lopez soon

Abbey Road Live! is com-ing to Lopez Center on Wednesday, July 3, 7:30 p.m.

The group is not your typical Beatle look-alike tribute act. Don’t expect mop-top haircuts and vin-tage Rickenbacker guitars. Rather, this show is about bringing to life some of the more mature and complex Beatles material in a raw & spirited fashion, while remaining true to the original

recordings. Combining atten-tion to detail with a creative exuberance, the band always delights its audiences with its diverse repertoire of hits and more obscure favorites. Initially a tribute to the monu-mental “Abbey Road” album, the band has expanded its scope to include more than 100 Beatles tunes, from all eras of the Fab Four’s career. The band specializes in com-plete, start-to-finish album performances of master-pieces such as “Abbey Road,” “Magical Mystery Tour,” “Rubber Soul,” “Revolver” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band.” Check out next week’s Weekly for a Q&A with a Abbey Road Live! bandmember.

Tickets in advance are $15

for adults and $8 for youth and are available from Lopez Center office, and www.lope-zcenter.org.

July 4 family fun runLopez Lions Club is having

a one mile family romp for all ages. Run and/or walk the new one mile event, or run either the 10 km (6.2 miles) or 5 km (3.1 miles) distances, or walk 5 km. All proceeds go to local nonprofit organi-zations which include Lopez School District programs and trips, vision assistance, Lopez Family Resource Center, Lopez Cemetery Association, Lopez Island Prevention Coalition.

Events will start at 8:30 a.m. on July 4 from Islander’s

Bank in the village. Race day registration for the event starts at 7 a.m. and ends precisely at 8:10 a.m. at the Lopez community Center, a hop, skip and a jump away from the starting and finish-ing line at Islander’s Bank. Register early for $5 less on Monday, July 2, or Tuesday, July 3, noon to 4 P.M. at the new Lopez Village Market. An emailed registration

form may also be obtained by calling the Lopez Island Chamber of Commerce at 468-4664, or pick one up at the ferry landing, Lopez Village Market, Holly B’s, or at Islandale.

Prizes awarded for the first three places in each age divi-sion of the 5 km and 10 km events and for the overall first male and female one mile finishers.

4th of July barbecueThe 4th of July BBQ is

Thursday, July 4, 11:30 a.m - 2 p.m.., Outdoor Pavilion. Tickets at door for $10.

Directly after the parade Lopez Center, along with vol-unteers, will be waiting to serve good old fashion bar-becue. You will have a choice of beef burgers or vegetarian burgers served, chips and a soda or juice.

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What happened to separation of church/state?

Island Hospital is currently looking to affiliate with a larg-er medical institution to take advantage of the economies of scale involving purchasing, electronic medical records, insurance reimbursement, and specialty referrals.

I support such an asso-ciation. However, I am quite uncomfortable contemplat-ing Island Hospital aligning itself with any religiously con-trolled medical institution.

I do not believe that public taxes should support any reli-gion in pursuit of its ministry, whether it is charitable, edu-cational, or delivering health care to the public. What should be a bright line of sep-aration between church and state is becoming blurred in our state.

As a firm believer in the Constitutions of Washington State and the United States, I see a looming conflict that may require judicial resolu-tion. It’s been suggested that affiliations between taxpayer supported medi-cal delivery institutions and those operated by religions organizations could be vio-lations of the Washington State Constitution (Article I, Section 11, as amended in 1957 and 1993).

Although not an attorney, my interpretation of that article and section permits only the employment of a chaplain, in “correctional, and mental institutions, or by a county’s or public hospi-tal district’s hospital, health

care facility, or hospice”, not persons with fidelity to an institution implementing church policies in the choice of services or manner of pub-lic health care delivery.

In Washington state, no bishop should be able to impose religious doctrine upon a patient and their phy-sician in any matters which are not in full compliance with state and federal medi-cal legislation, or well-estab-lished secular best medical practices.

The opportunities for secular medical institutions to affiliate with other than religious dominated medi-cal institutions are rapidly becoming fewer. As a patient I am very concerned about my end of life decisions being extinguished by religious pol-icy which does not respect my fully legal wishes.

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be no more than 350 words in length and must be signed by the writer. Include address and telephone number for verifica-tion purposes. Anonymous let-ters will not be published. Send letters via email to: cbagby@islandsweekly.com.

The Lopez Community Trails Network, a trails organization on Lopez Island, has again scheduled a series of hikes open to the public under the title of “Go Take a Hike.” The hike schedule, under the direc-tion of Bob Walker, includes a variety of destinations on and off the island, includ-ing easy beach walks to more strenuous mountain hikes. These hikes are on Saturdays and begin the spring. Hikes are set at a leisurely pace encourag-ing exploration and time to experience the wonders of nature.

Sign-up for hikes is by phone or email with Bob Walker or the hike leader. There is no expense except the sharing of transporta-tion costs when going off island. Call with any ques-tions about any details. Here are a few of the upcoming hikes.

July 13: Turtleback Mountain – Orcas Island – Leader, Mike Moore

The south trailhead approach gives you imme-diate views to other San Juan Islands on the south. As you head up, mossy outcrops and wild flowers appear as well as the moun-tain crest. If we are lucky, the new Turtlehead con-nector trail may be ready for us to explore. This is three to six miles, round trip, depending. We will car pool from Lopez on an early morning ferry. Sign up with Mike at 468-3622 or Bob Walker at 468-3397.

August 24: Railroad Grade – off hwy 20, Mt Baker -Leader, Chris Coiley

Do you know what a lateral moraine is? Well, the answer contributed to

the Railroad Grade name. In this case it is a smooth ascending grade at the very edge of the retreated Easton Glacier on Mt. Baker. All this is set in up close views of Mt. Baker surrounded by meadows, wildflowers and marmots. This is a very popular, all day event with a moderately strenuous hike of eight miles round trip. Check out local guide books or the web for more infor-mation. For sign up and car pool arrangements contact Chris at 468-4090.

Sept. 28: Yellow Aster Butte – off Hwy 542 Mt. Baker – Leader, Chris Coiley

On the north side from Mt. Baker, just east of the town of Glacier, this hike has meadows, rock tarns, ponds, wild blueberries and mountain views galore. This is an all day event that is considered moderately strenuous with an eight-mile round trip trail hike gaining 2,200 feet of eleva-tion. For more information including car pool arrange-ments and sign up call Chris at 468-4090. Also, for more

info about this very popular hike check mountain guide books or the web.

Oct. 12: Lopez Hill – mushroom hunt—Leader, Tim Clark, San Juan County Land Bank

If you want to know more about mushroom identification and maybe bring some home as well, this may be the hike for

you. This is an easy for-ested hike to the top of the highest point on Lopez Island. Meet at trailhead parking off of Lopez Sound Road at 9 a.m. No sign up necessary. For questions call Tim at 468-2010.

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By Cali BagbyWeekly editor

There are no bears, wolves or mountain lions on the islands. When the sun goes down there is little to fear from the wild world

when it comes to large pred-ators. Smaller mammals like the raccoon are wild and can cause problems espe-cially when humans interact with them as if they were domestic creatures.

Although San Juan County does not have an animal control sector, the Sheriff’s Office does handle problems involving “dog behavior- barking, biting, running at large, chasing

or injuring/killing livestock, menacing people,” said Sheriff Rob Nou. “On issues like raccoon attacks and/ or problems, we can solicit help from Fish and Wildlife to try to trap and relocate offending critters.”

But Shona Aitken, education coordinator at Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, said removing problem animals does not solve the problem.

“If you remove raccoons it creates an open space and other raccoons will move in,” she added.

Adult raccoons weigh 15 to 40 pounds, their weight being a result of genetics, age, available food, and hab-itat location. Some males have weighed in at over 60 pounds.

The average life span of a raccoon in the wild is two to three years.

As long as raccoons are kept out of human homes, not cornered, and not treated as pets, they are not

dangerous, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Raccoon populations can get quite large in urban areas, due to hunting and trapping restrictions, few predators, and human-sup-plied food, according to the USFWS’s website.

Aitken said raccoons often become a problem when they have been regu-larly fed by humans or when someone who has fed them for ages suddenly stops.

“Then there are a bunch of raccoons with youngsters getting desperate because their usual source of food has disappeared,” she said. “Anyone who has been reg-ularly feeding animals such as raccoons for a long time, should discontinue, very gradually, over the period of several months.”

Another reason for an increase in raccoon activ-ity in residential areas may be the recent spell of hot dry weather, said Aitken, which makes it more dif-ficult for them to find sourc-es of fresh water and juicy food, so yards look even more tempting than usual. Raccoons also are found

in areas with their favorite snacks like clams, crayfish, frogs and snails.

This is also baby season, so mom can be protective of her young … and take risks she would not otherwise consider, Aitken said.

Aitken added that the best way to deal with rac-coons is to make sure they are not enticed to come onto your property. This can be accomplished in a few steps:

1: Spray your yard and deck with unpleasant scents like coyote urine (available for purchase online), lemon juice or vinegar. If you see raccoons in your yard, spray them with a hose to show them they are not welcome. Installing motion sensors for lights or sprinklers also dissuades the animals from coming near your home.

2: Keep compost, garbage and other food contained. Do not leave your pet food outdoors.

3: Keep pets inside. Dogs and cats can be attacked by a range of wildlife.

Aitken said there is no record of any reported cases of rabies in mammals on the islands, but that doesn’t mean people should not be concerned about wildlife.

“Pet interactions with wildlife happen all the time,” Aitken said. “We feel like we are safe because we don’t have large predators, but it’s a false sense of security.”

Aitken said people are can call Wolf Hollow 378-5000 if they have question-sor concerns about wildlife. You can also call the WDFW Regional Office at 425-775-1311 for more information.

The Islands’ Weekly • www.islandsweekly.com • June 25, 2013 – Page 4

By Steve WehrlyJournal reporter

Gov. Jay Inslee’s office confirmed Tuesday after-noon that the temporary replacement bridge over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon opened for traffic in both directions Wednesday, June 19, at 6 a.m.

Original estimates were that the replacement bridge might take two months to be put in place, but quick response from Acrow Corporation, the bridge

fabricator, and Atkinson Construction cut construc-tion time to one day less than three weeks.

The permanent bridge is expected to be finished in September, at which time I-5 will be closed for about two weeks, accord-ing to the Department of Transportation.

The northern section of the bridge fell into the Skagit River, May 23, when a southbound Mullen Trucking Co. truck haul-

ing a large housing for min-ing equipment clipped one or more load-bearing sup-porting struts as it crossed the bridge.

The over-height truck was accompanied by a pilot car with a vertical measur-ing pole which, according to witnesses, also struck the bridge in front of the truck following behind. For more stories on this issue, visit www.island-sweekly.com and click on the “news” tab.

Bye Bye DetoursTemporary I-5 span over Skagit

River to open Wednesday

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Shown above is a computer-generated image of the span that will serve as a temporary replace-ment for the section of the I-5 Skagit River bridge that collapsed May 23.

Beware when interacting with raccoons on the islands

Lopez Island School Districtis accepting written bids for a minimum of 800# of local grass fed USDA ground beef and 100# of roasts for the 2013-14 school year. Bid price should include cut and wrap costs, per pound for ground beef and roasts. Bids due to the District office by 4PM, July 10th. For information please contact Stephanie at 360.468.2202 ext. 2302. AA/EOE

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Left: Raccoons at the Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center located on San Juan Island.

By Scott RasmussenJournal editor

With back-to-back first-place finishes already in the bag, Greg Poffenroth may have been in search of a little extra motivation at the start of his third consecu-tive appearance in the San Juan Island Half-Marathon.

If so, he got it, and then some.

With just over a mile to go to the finish line, the 29-year-old Bothell man felt his strength begin to sag and Robert McWilliam was still there nipping at his heels.

“It felt like he was a lot closer than I wanted him to be,” said Poffenroth, who managed to outpace McWilliams down the home stretch and up the final hill of the 13.1-mile course, besting the 44-year-old Englishman by 33 seconds to claim a third-straight half-marathon title.

Seattle’s Robert Nelson finished first among 47 run-ners that tested their mettle over the 26.2-mile course of the full marathon. At a pace of six minutes, 54 second per mile, Nelson, 33, crossed the finish line in 3:00:55, eight minutes ahead of runner-up and fellow Seattleite Matthew Burkhardt, and 25 minutes ahead of the mark set by 2012 winner Tim O’Brien, of Maple Valley. Celina Santi, 29, also of Seattle, was first among the women’s field of full-marathoners, at 3:27:05.

Not only did Poffenroth claim a third consecutive first-place title, finishing in

1:25:31, the first-time father of a 10-month-old son did so on Father’s Day.

The father of three, McWilliam, runner-up in the Half, took a break from business meetings in Seattle to run a half-mar-athon in nearby Burlingtn on Saturday, where his fin-ish time ballooned beyond normal after taking a wrong turn on the course, and then to tackle the San Juan Island course and its hills for the first time the following day.

“It’s an absolutely fabu-lous course,” he said. “The hills are really challeng-ing, or really exhilarating depending on whether you’re going up or down.”

Poffenroth was one of many fathers pounding the pavement in the 11th annual San Juan Island Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K run, Sunday, June 16, sponsored by Kings Market. With a total 229 people registered for all three events com-bined, participation in the 2013 marathon was up 20 percent over the previous year’s total, according to Paul Hopkins of San Juan Island Fitness, marathon co-coordinator. Hopkins said that the collapse of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River on the eve of the Memorial Day weekend and the ensu-ing detour routes apparent-ly did not dissuade many from taking part in the run.

“We’re not sure if it’s because of a better econo-my or the later start date,” Hopkins said, “or the chal-lenge of getting here with a downed bridge.”

After 11 years as a road run, the island’s premier long-distance running event will transform into a twin tri-athlon featuring two distanc-es, Olympic and Sprint, and a Friday night kids triathlon.

Local runners finishing at the front of their respec-tive events include San Juan ’s Ross Lockwood, fourth place in the half with a time of 1:39:59, Brendan Cowan, finishing eighth in the half, 1:43:04, and Kirby Anderson, at 1:44:44, 13th among 113 half-mara-thoners. At 3:19:25, Friday Harbor’s Elliot Thomsen finished fifth in the mara-thon, Irinia Bell finished 14th, 3:57:35, and 24-year-old Talia Loucks finished her first-ever marathon in 4:33:34, 26th overall.

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Everything in the Universe vibrates, from the smallest particle, to the planets in our solar system, to the billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, creating patterns of geometric waveforms, fre-quencies, musical intervals, and sounds. The Music of the Spheres can be traced back to Pythagoras, who recognized that sounds are

subject to mathematical laws and proportions, and were the very foundation of the Universe.

Acutonics is a system of vibrational sound healing developed 16 years ago by an acupuncturist who personally experienced hearing these heavenly harmonies. Rooted in Oriental medicine and phi-losophy, Acutonics utilizes

precision-calibrated tuning forks, gongs and chimes tuned to the frequencies of the Earth, Moon, Sun and Planets. The planets provide musical intervals, arche-types, psychological depth and correspondences that help the practitioner fine-tune the therapeutic frequencies that are used on and off the body. Acupuncture points

provide noninvasive access into these core energetic sys-tems within the body. The sound waves of the forks travel deep into the body bal-ancing the body’s physical and subtle energy fields to promote healing and inner harmony. Used effectively for physical, emotional and psycho-spiritual conditions, Acutonics also works well along side other treatments.

A receiver of the work for more than 10 years, Nancy Crowell is the most recent graduate of the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing. She is part of a group of professionals who have gone through the rigorous pro-cess to become a “Certified” Acutonics Practitioner. Under the name “Planetary Alignments,” Nancy will be

bringing her background in macrobiotics, astrology and Waldorf education, where she was introduced respectively to Five-Element Theory, the planetary influences and Rudolf Steiner’s theosophi-cal realm of the Devachan to her Acutonics practice. Nancy says her experience in the development of the first organic and fair trade tea line

in North America served to hone her strong, ethical busi-ness sense.

Her personal experience of Acutonics is that it deeply relaxing and connects you back with your “true” self...the spirit that is uniquely you, she said.

You can find out more by contacting Nancy at seain-tuit@gmail.com.

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lopez island Community ChurCh, 91 Lopez Road. Sunday School: pre-school through adult 9:30 a.m.; Worship at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Jeff Smith 468-3877.

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The Growth Management Hearings Board has sched-uled 20 hours of “Hearings on the Merits” of appeals of the county Critical Areas Ordinances, approved by the San Juan County Council in late 2012.

All 20 hours will be streamed live at http://san-juanco.com/council/video.aspx. No public testimony or comments will be per-mitted. The hearing will be held in council chambers, in Friday Harbor, Monday, June 24, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, June 25, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, June 26, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The full record of the ordinances amounts to some 35,000 pages of docu-ments and hearings; the fil-ings of all parties with the Hearings Board approaches 3,000 pages. A decision by hearings board is expected in September.

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science that “We simply do not know” how much EMF affects bees or other wild-life. He recommended fur-ther studies, but warned that they “must attempt to elimi-nate extraneous variables that may bias study results including diseases, parasites, weather and climatic events, pesticides, contaminants, and other mortality factors on insects and other wildlife.”

Few studies published thus far meet this test. A review of 113 studies, published ear-lier this year in the journal Environment International, found that while most of them reported some kind of harm from EMR, they were inconsistent with regard to the level of harm caused by any given level of EMR. If there is a direct cause-and-effect relationship between radio frequency signals and

health, increasing or decreas-ing the electromagnetic dose should have a consistent effect on the amount of harm done.

Past studies also exposed animals to unrealistically high levels of radio frequency EMF, comparable to talking on a cellphone for hours to days without a break. Some humans do expose them-selves to that much power, but ambient levels of total RF-EMF in the environment are significantly lower.

We measured EMF levels on Lopez one June afternoon. The highest we recorded was, not surprisingly, about 50 feet from the base of the cell-phone tower: average power density per square meter was 0.4 microwatts with fluc-tuations to 15.8 microwatts. A few hundred feet away, at the Golf Club, average power density fell to 0.3 microwatts. Lopez Library was 0.2 micro-watts and Lopez Village less than 0.1 microwatt. Except for some brief “spikes” near

the base of the cell tower, our measurements were one-mil-lionth of the exposure levels you can expect from “pressed to head” cellphone use.

All life on earth depends on two kinds of EMR: visi-ble light and heat (infrared). Like many other essentials of life, including electrolytes in our diet, EMF can be harmful at high doses. Very bright light harms our eyes, high heat denatures our body’s proteins, too much sodium raises our blood pressure, and high potas-sium levels can stop our heart. EMF is not inherent-ly harmful. The question is: how much of any particular kind of EMF is too much?

Meanwhile, homeowners in San Juan County continue to buy products containing the neonicotinoid compound Imidacloprid, which unques-tionably kills bees and has now been banned in Europe. We could tackle that threat to local bees immediately.

Kwiaht researchers are

conducting baseline invento-ries of native pollinators in the islands. Barsh is the director of Kwiaht and Murphy is a botanist at Kwiaht.

To find out more, and how you can help, write kwiaht@gmail.com.

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