Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) was something talked about in the past tense, when Delores Broten and Don Malcom moved to Cortes in 1987.

In the first of a series of posts about the origins of FOCI, Broten and talks about the 1990 logging blockade that inspired FOCI’s rebirth as well as the award-winning environmental magazine called ‘the Watershed Sentinel.’