8/12 Water hemlock, spotted owls, Roadless Rule, Whidbey prairie, pipeline fees, low oxygen, democracy watch.

Western water hemlock [R.D. Ness] Water hemlock Ethnobotanist H.D. Harrington once wrote that Water hemlock “has gained the reputation as being the most poisonous plant in the North Temperate Zone.” Its toxin, called cicutoxin, can cause delirium, nausea, convulsions, abdominal pain, seizures, and vomiting within 60 minutes of ingestion – frequently leading to death. Cicuta maculata (spotted water…