Marine Waters and Shorelines

The Port Angeles Harbor was once lined with plywood, pulp and paper mills for many decades. These left a legacy of contaminants in the Harbor sediments and town soils. Toxic air emissions reached back to the Olympic National Park harming trees and...

Once among the world’s richest salmon rivers, today the Columbia is the most dammed river system in the world and is managed as an “organic machine.” The capstone of the dam-building era was the Columbia River Treaty (CRT), negotiated in the 1950s...

The long-awaited restoration of one of the last remaining saltwater estuaries on Puget Sound, the Edmonds Marsh would provide critical habitat for wildlife like our endangered salmon and Southern Resident orca, but the Washington State Department of...

More than 250 people gathered in Olympia to say “No!” to oil drilling off the Washington coast, including Sierra Club activists, Nisqually tribal leaders, Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz, coastal community leaders and businesses, plus...