Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of conservationists to jumpstart the recovery of kelp, salmon, and orca.

The Washington state Department of Natural Resources and the Squaxin Island Tribe will join forces to try to conserve the Squaxin Island Kelp Bed, the last major kelp bed in South Puget Sound.

Kelp has vanished from about 80% of the shorelines around which it once grew in Puget Sound, according to a 2023 report from Washington’s Kelp Forest Monitoring Alliance. South of the Tacoma ...

SEATTLE – As part of the Seattle Seahawks and Lumen Field's commitment to sustainability and community support, the Puget Sound Restoration Fund today announced a $10,000 donation from the team ...

It can grow more than a foot a day. The specimens that wash up on beaches have detached from the ocean floor. Puget Sound has lost about two-thirds of its bull kelp forests, according to PDZA.

Joseph Peters, Puget Sound Restoration Fund board of directors and Squaxin Island Tribe member, at the announcement on Monday, July 22, 2024. Courtesy of the Washington State Department of Natural ...

About 80 percent of bull kelp in Central and South Puget Sound has disappeared since the 1870s, according to a 2023 report from Washington’s Kelp Forest Monitoring Alliance.

Once thriving, there are now believed to be just 73 Southern Resident killer whales left in Washington state's Puget Sound.

Joseph Peters, Puget Sound Restoration Fund board of directors and Squaxin Island Tribe member, at the announcement on Monday, July 22, 2024. Courtesy of the Washington State Department of Natural ...

Joseph Peters, Puget Sound Restoration Fund board of directors and Squaxin Island Tribe member, at the announcement on Monday, July 22, 2024. Courtesy of the Washington State Department of Natural ...