Washington's dam-busting summer is still rolling, with two more dams coming down on the Pilchuck River, opening 37 miles of habitat to salmon for the first time in more than a century.
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2020
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He remembers vividly the day he caught Tokitae, one of some 100 orca whales captured behind a net in Whidbey Island's Penn Cove.
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2023
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The J pod of endangered southern resident orcas has a new baby.
Plants & Animals
Dec 28, 2023
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Experts will examine an anchor recovered from Puget Sound north of Seattle to determine if it was from one of the earliest ships to explore Northwest waters.
Archaeology
Jun 10, 2014
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The oft-quoted proverb, "Too many cooks spoil the broth," is apt wisdom for describing challenges facing policy makers, public resource managers, ag producers, industry, residents and other stakeholders in attempts to jointly ...
Environment
Feb 22, 2017
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The most populated areas of Puget Sound have experienced striking shifts in marine species, with declines in herring and smelt that have long provided food for other marine life and big increases in the catch of jellyfish, ...
Ecology
May 8, 2015
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Every living thing leaves a genetic trail in its wake. As animals, plants and microbes shed cells and produce waste, they drop traces of their DNA everywhere—in the air, soil and water.
Ecology
Sep 15, 2016
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Lolita, the orca who lived in a tank at the Miami Seaquarium from her capture in 1970 in waters off Washington state to her death 53 years later in August, will be honored in a homecoming Saturday.
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2023
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He's trailed them and photographed them, mapped their family trees and counted their offspring, coming to identify individuals by their markings, sometimes even ascribing personalities based on behavior.
Plants & Animals
Dec 31, 2014
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Eelgrass, a marine plant crucial to the success of migrating juvenile salmon and spawning Pacific herring, is stable and flourishing in Puget Sound, despite a doubling of the region's human population and significant shoreline ...
Ecology
Jan 4, 2017
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