Planting seeds for budding careers
In the coming years, when camas is flowering, trees are growing and strawberries are ripening on the banks of the…
Category: Habitat
Tribe concerned about Purple Urchin Barrens and kelp forests
Hordes of slow-moving prickly purple urchin that creep along the seafloor can easily wipe out a kelp forest. The Makah…
Conservation effort for orcas begins on land
The Quileute Tribe and the Clallam Conservation District joined together last month for a restoration project during Orca Recovery Week.…
Restoring Dungeness River habitat for salmon
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe made strides this summer restoring much-needed salmon habitat in the Dungeness River. The three biggest issues…
Removing the last barriers to salmon in Chico Creek
Biologists and engineers witnessed chum salmon take advantage of a newly restored tributary to Chico Creek this fall, soon after…
Changes to Elwha estuary under observation following dam removal
The mouth of the Elwha River does not look the same as it did 15 years ago. In the mid-2000s,…
Decades after dam removal, a record run of salmon
More than 140,000 juvenile coho salmon departed the Goldsborough Creek watershed this year, an exciting milestone after the Squaxin Island…
Testing imitation beaver dams as climate mitigation strategy
As the Stillaguamish River and its network of tributary and side channel streams braid their way across the landscape, they…
Restoring logjams for threatened Nooksack salmon
Along the North Fork Nooksack River, gravel shores are left wanting—particularly while they bake in the sun during the summer…