The Nature Conservancy of Connecticut has unveiled its $4 million plan to transform and restore marshes and an estuary ... Island Sound. The second goal is to restore the 80-acre salt marsh ...

The Puget Sound Estuarium and ... for participants to represent different estuary organisms. You could be anything from blue-green algae or a salt marsh plant, to a salmon or heron.

is a 22-acre remnant of the original marsh and estuary. Once important habitat for migrating juvenile salmon and for spawning coho and chum, it covered over 100 acres. Open to Puget Sound ...

The Dewatto site presents a rare opportunity to protect a large estuary that’s nearly intact. The property includes a salt marsh and provides habitat ... acquire and permanently protect 257 acres of ...

“They change more dramatically from one year to the next, so we’d be concerned with anything that causes a decrease in the biodiversity of Long Island Sound and other estuaries,” Schultz sai ...

In May 2024, Mission Nonprofit host Deborah Vinsel sat down with Paris McClusky, executive director for the Puget Sound ... estuary. Capitol Lake was created in the 1950s, separating the fresh and ...

The return of sea otters to a California salt marsh helped curb ravenous crabs ... verified sea otter near Vancouver Island’s Kyuquot Sound, it sealed a run of sea otter extirpation that ...

Young Chinook salmon wriggle through salt-marsh shallows. A rare short-eared owl glides across ... as did human recreation and endangered salmon recovery. “The issues that Puget Sound salmon face are ...

Estuaries, 27(6), 905-914 ... Gradient analysis of diatom assemblages in a Puget Sound salt marsh: can such assemblages be used for quantitative paleoecological reconstructions? Palaeogeogr.

Among the best places to encounter coastal castors is the Qwuloolt estuary, the salt marsh that lies at the mouth of the Snohomish River, a 32-kilometer watercourse that wends from the Cascade ...

Scientists call them by their genus, Salicornia. Around Puget Sound, they’re commonly known as sea beans. These salt-tolerant plants grow above the high tide line along beaches and in estuary marshes.