This good news didn’t happen by accident. It was the work of years of effort by the Northwest Watershed Institute providing background on why this area needed protection.
OLYMPIA – The outgoing commissioner of public lands has added nearly 4,000 acres to the Dabob Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area.
Peter Goldmark signed on Thursday an executive order to expand the Dabob area by 3,393 acres.
The order conserves mature coastal forests, streams, fish-spawning areas, eelgrass beds, native Olympia oyster beds and nearshore tidelands.
“The site helps protect open marine waters essential to the survival of salmon, marine birds, harbor seals and orcas,” the state Department of Natural Resources said in a news release.
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