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We continue to celebrate American Wetlands Month. Did you know Washington is home to nearly one million acres of wetlands?
The program, which is investing $5 million over the next two years, focuses on Washington ... program for Puget Sound. This project will use the emulator to explore how cumulative watershed ...
The Puget Sound Energy Outage Map showed a Tumwater outage southwest ... affected part of Olympia east of Interstate 5 and south of Watershed Park. That outage impacted at least 2,109 customers ...
The unit is part of the Scatter Creek watershed ... only 3% of grassland soils in the south Puget Sound region. More recently, a 2021 Washington State University study found over 90% of prairies ...
An area east of Puget Sound ... The Washington State Department of Ecology has declared a drought emergency for large areas of Washington State, with particular emphasis on the Yakima watershed ...
The Puget Sound Nutrient Source Reduction Project: Salish Sea Model results interactive webmap is an interactive map where you may view the latest ... plants and other sources of nutrient pollution in ...
The discussion involved how the Rainier Audubon Society can play a role in assisting the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ... Wildlife disease in the North Puget Sound Islands: An increase ...
Patty Murray (D-WA ... of Puget Sound. Our oyster beds depend on the clean, cold, silt-free water that drains off Olympic National Forest into Hood Canal. Protecting these watersheds allows ...
For the next few weeks, the state’s marine monitoring team will collect sediment and organism samples across Puget Sound ...
The closure goes into effect Thursday until further notice, according to the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife.
The goal: bring a new fleet of passenger-only, electric-powered hydrofoil ferries to Puget Sound. Though hydrofoils ... toward building a prototype in Washington but has no definite timeline.