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- Voices of the Strait Video Voices of the Strait video project Chapter 1

-NW Environmental Video Channel Gateway site for environmental videos of the Salish Sea

-Regional Events The Puget Sound Partnership’s Event Calender. Lists *most* of the environmental educational events coming up

-The Cove One of the most important environmental documentaries ever created. If you value dolphins, then you must see this film.

A Sea Change Movie about ocean acidification the next looming crisis in our waters of Puget Sound, and elsewhere. A must see video.

Best Green Blogs Listing of hundreds of global blogs on Green subjects, both commercial and not for profit

Biomass study – WSU The definitive study on how much biomass really exists in our counties.

Boldt Decision – History Seattle Times article on the history of the Boldt Decision.

Carfree.com Imagining towns without cars!

Crab Pot Escape Cord Stop crab pot loss & crab kills! Use cotton cord!

Dead Zones – Eutrophic Map of Salish Sea Dead Zone tracking globally.

Derelict Gear Removal Project Learn about derelict gear & how to report it if you see it

Eleanor Stopps – In her Own Words The audio only interview with the great environmental activist, Eleanor Stopps

Feiro Marine Life Center Port Angeles’ Marine Center

Geoduck Study by UW Sea Grant 2012 Interim report of the long awaited Geoduck research by UW Washington Sea Grant

Jimmy Come-Lately Creek Restoration Video detaling the restoration of Jimmy Come-Lately Creek in Blyn.

MARE:Marine Affairs Research & Education Providing innovative services to coastal and marine resource managers worldwide

Marine ecosystems and management Bimonthly information service on marine ecosystem-based management

MPA News International News and Analysis on Marine Protected Areas

National Marine Fisheries overview of aquaculture on habitat From the Fisheries permitting process

Net Pen Lecture Audio Podcast of Dr. Lawrence Dill on Net Pen Aquaculture Concerns – Larry is a leader in sea lice research

Net Pen Lecture Video – Pt. 1 Dr. Dill’s presentation on video (includes slides)

Net Pen Lecture Video – Pt. 2 Dr. Larry Dill’s Net Pen Lecture Part 2

North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center NOPSC is a project based field science class. Also for High School Senior Culminating Projects

North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center Natural Resources To provide a program that provides hands-on, relevant natural resources research experience while meeting the needs of and building capacity within individual students and the North Olympic Peninsula region.

Olympic Park Institute Educational site @ Lake Crescent

openchannels.org OpenChannels is designed to become a comprehensive source for news, guidance, and community discussion on sustainable practices in ocean planning and management.

Orca Listening Posts – Orcasound.net Hydrophones to listen to our friends in the sea.

Peninsula College Environmental Education programs

Protection Island Story A very good one page overview of how Protection Island was saved.

PT Marine Science Center Educational site at Fort Worden. Check it out with kids!

PT Marine Science Center Blog Cute, they even stole our photo header!

Puget Sound Partnership – Project Atlas A great tool showing all the projects under way to support restoring the Salish Sea.

Return of the River – Elwha Project John Gussman’s web site of video & stills from the project

Roll call of the Lost Dick Goins description of stocks of wlld salmon declines over decades. By a long time expert fisherman.

Shore Stewards WSU program for beach protection

Shoreline Armoring on Puget Sound Workshop 2009 workshop on issues related to Shoreline Armouring

Sound IQ Very cool new site! Interactive Map of Island County

U.S. Government Energy Information Administration Want to know the CO2 stats? Here’s the place.

VIDEO – Protecting our shorelines Good 34 minute video on why & how to protect your shoreline

Water Footprint Network Understanding your water footprint

Watershed Links A listing of local watershed links. Good starting place.

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Admiralty Audubon Local PT based Audubon Chapter

Brinnon Group Local group opposing Black Point resort

Coastal Watershed Institute “To promote long term, ecological, community based stewardship of marine and terrestrial ecosystems thru scientific research and local partnerships.”

Dungeness River Audubon Center Educational site on the river. Check it out with kids!

Fred Felleman's Blog Fred is the “man” when it comes to oil spill prevention. Check his thoughts out.

Georgia Straits Alliance Canadian NGO working on protecting the Straits

Greenfleet Monitoring Expeditions Monitoring of Puget Sound Estuaries

Jefferson Land Trust Folks working to protect critical openspace

League of Women Voters – Clallam County a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

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Local 2020 Think local, act local

Local Food Access Network North Peninsula local food org with an emphasis on developing and supporting increased and sustainable capacity for production, distribution, and consumption locally.

North Olympic Land Trust

North Olympic Lead Entity We bring local stakeholder groups together to coordinate salmon recovery efforts across the North Olympic Peninsula. from Blyn to Cape Flattery.

North Olympic Salmon Coalition The mission of the North Olympic Salmon Coalition is to restore, enhance, and protect habitat of North Olympic Peninsula wild salmon stocks and to promote community volunteerism, understanding, cooperation and stewardship of these resources.

Olympic Environmental Council The Olympic Environmental Council works on issues related to the environment and health that affect our North Olympic Peninsula communities.

Olympic Forest Coalition Protecting and restoring our Olympic forest and aquatic ecosystems

Olympic Park Associates If you share with us a passion for Olympic National Park, a concern for the Park’s future, and a vision that Olympic National Park should always be a wild and natural place, we invite you to join Olympic Park Associates.

OrcaNetwork Follow the whales online!

Puget Sound Restoration Fund Achieving on-the-ground restoration of habitat and native species in Puget Sound by focusing on action not politics

Save Our Salmon Coalition Coalition of citizen and industry groups working to save wild salmon

Save Pulali Pulali Point is on Hood Canal at Dabob Bay

Seal Sitters Group trained by NOAA to help protect seals & pups in Western Washington

Sierra Club – North Olympic Chapter This is a new chapter recently formed.

Washington Environmental Council WEC has been working for a couple of decades on environmental activism. A great group of people actually getting things done.

Whale Trail Signs along the way to take you to great whale viewing locations

Wild Fish Conservancy Wild Fish Conservancy seeks to improve conditions for all of the Northwest’s wild fish

Groups Set On Twin Rivers Restoration–PDN

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Al B.

Another possible restoration of the shoreline from past industrial work. Helps restore for benefit of some of the best steelhead runs left.

JOYCE — Multiple agencies, both public and private, want to restore a chunk of land roughly 20 miles west of Joyce and are planning a community meeting to update local residents on the status of the project.

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20120917/NEWS/309179996/0/SEARCH

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Return of the kings! Chinook salmon observed in undammed portion of Elwha River – Park & PDN

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Al B.

As the old saying goes, “nature abhors a vacuum”. The Olympic National Park have announced (and reported and commented on by The Peninsula Daily News) that chinook (King) salmon have been spotted above the site of the lower of the two dams that have been removed. This is the first time in almost a century that they have been able to reach this location. In addition to the Kings, Steelhead have also been seen in above the first dam.

The power of restoration again shows that once a place has been restored, nature tries and fill it, if the species still are alive.

The news bulletin from the park
http://www.nps.gov/olym/parknews/return-of-the-kings.htm

Additional information on the story at the PDN.

http://peninsuladailynews.com/article/20120821/NEWS/308219989/return-of-the-kings-chinook-salmon-observed-in-undammed-portion-of

Filed under: Chinook, Clallam County, Elwa dam removal, Elwha River, Olympic National Park, Olympic Peninsula | Tagged: chinook, elwha river, restoration, Salmon | Leave a Comment »

Work underway to return Olympia oysters to Port Gamble Bay – Kitsap Sun

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Al B.

More efforts underway for restoration of the Sound natives:

Efforts of the nonprofit Puget Sound Restoration Fund are adding Olympia oysters and kelp near Point Julia in Port Gamble Bay, bringing back a native species and underwater forest that supports the local ecosystem. A team of nine full- and part-time staff began the first portion of the restoration project in late June for the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, when divers placed 1,200 feet of natural-fiber ropes seeded with young bull kelp plants.

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/aug/18/work-underway-to-return-olympia-oysters-to-port/

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Restoration work planned on Ediz Hook this summer – PDN

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Al B.

Habitat restoration is planned on a 1,200-foot stretch of Ediz Hook this summer. The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe and state Department of Natural Resources will restore the “A-frame” site on the spit, a former log dump area that was used until the 1970s. It will be cleared of fill and existing structures during an eight-week period starting June 16.

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20120506/news/305069980/restoration-work-planned-on-ediz-hook-this-summer

Filed under: Puget Sound | Tagged: clallam county, elwha dam, Port Angeles, restoration | Leave a Comment »

Olympia Oyster hatchery to be built in Manchester

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Al B.

The effort to restore native Olympia oysters to Puget Sound will take an important step forward later this year, when a permanent oyster hatchery will be built in Manchester. The 1,500-square-foot hatchery — designed to produce up to 1 million baby oysters a year — will be constructed at Manchester Research Station, a federal facility operated by Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Oyster hatchery to be built at Manchester Research Station

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/apr/20/oyster-hatchery-to-be-built-at-manchester/

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Restored wetlands no match for real thing

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Al B.

Samuel P. Schuchat, executive director of the Coastal Conservancy,
left, walks through the Ballona Wetlands during a conservancy tour of
the natural reserve in Marina del Rey. New studies show that wetlands
do not quickly return to their original vitality once destroyed or
altered. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times / January 19, 2012)
By Bettina Boxall
February 1, 2012, 1:23 p.m.
How easy is it to recreate nature? When it comes to wetlands, the
answer seems to be "not very."
A new paper examining data from more than 600 restored or man-made
wetlands found that in key ways, they don’t measure up to the real
thing.

Read the whole story at

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-restored-wetlands-no-
match-for-natural-20120201,0,7166919.story

Link to the PLOS Biology study:
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001248

Restoration of Ailing Wetlands

Filed under: Wetlands Restoration | Tagged: restoration, wetlands | Leave a Comment »

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The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) is thrilled to announce the opening of a new exhibit, "Learning from Orcas—The Story of Hope," which will be the centerpiece in the Natural History Exhibit in Fort Worden State Park.

The exhibit opens Saturday, September 29th at noon. Admission is free to the public on Saturday and Sunday of that weekend, and open from noon to 4 p.m

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Groups Set On Twin Rivers Restoration–PDN

Return of the kings! Chinook salmon observed in undammed portion of Elwha River – Park & PDN

Work underway to return Olympia oysters to Port Gamble Bay – Kitsap Sun

Restoration work planned on Ediz Hook this summer – PDN

Olympia Oyster hatchery to be built in Manchester

Restored wetlands no match for real thing

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