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

-Alexandra Morton's Web Site (NEW) The new web site for the work of Canada’s leading researcher in to farmed Atlantic Salmon and it’s effects.

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

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

-The Life & Times of Wolf Bauer 1hour radio show on the life of NW Environmentalist and mountain climber, Wolf Bauer

2012 NW Straits Presentations Audio podcasts of the presentations

2013 NW Straits Conference Presentations Audio podcasts of the presentations

AIRNOW Air quality monitoring

– Shellfish Safety Information – 1-800-562-5632

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

Carfree.com Imagining towns without cars!

Climate Action Portfolio CO2 builds diversified, high-impact climate action portfolios.

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

Herring School (Canada) Herring research site from SFU and Partners

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 This links appears to be gone. I am checking into why.

Naturebridge Educational site @ Lake Crescent

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 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 Peninsula Audubon Covers the west end of the Peninsula

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

River of Kings – Video Part 1 of 2 part series by Carl Safina on the Nisqually River Restoration.

Salish Magazine Salish Magazine is a free online magazine that takes inquisitive readers outdoors with visually rich storytelling about features people can see firsthand in our public forests and beaches.

Shore Stewards WSU program for beach protection

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

SNOW SURVEY DATA

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

Z_Peninsula Calendar of Events (Old) Old Events sponsored by EcoNET the Puget Sound Partnership educational wing

News Sites

Non Governmental Organizations

Admiralty Audubon Local PT based Audubon Chapter

Brinnon Group Local group opposing Black Point resort

Clam Gardens Network of researchers exploring First Nation gardening of clams in history, and it’s relationship to today.

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!

Georgia Straits Alliance Canadian NGO working on protecting the Straits

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.

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

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 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.

Northwest Watershed Institute NWI’s mission is to provide scientific and technical support to protect and restore fish and wildlife habitats and watershed ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.

Olympic Climate Action Local citizens concerned about climate change

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.

Olympic Peninsula Audubon Covers the west end of the Peninsula

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

Puget Soundkeeper Alliance We are a water quality watch dog group that has been working to protect and preserve the waters of Puget Sound since 1984

Salish Sea News Mike Sato’s great daily news aggregation site for all things Salish Sea

SalmonAlert.org – Site with anti-net pen science and questions This is the site to go to, in order to better understand the scientific questions that the anti-net pen coalition is asking.

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

Save the Salish Sea

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

Northwest Straits MRC Conference Begins

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Al Bergstein

The Northwest Straits Commission, which since 1998 has run the nationally-recognized conservation initiative, the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative has opened it’s 2019 conference. The conference brings together scientists and community volunteers in seven counties in northwest Washington. Due to space limitations it was a limited audience but they will be publishing Powerpoints & Audio taping of many of these sessions.

During this conference, the participants get to share their expertise and projects, restoring and educating county citizens and politicians in their local locales.

The conference attendees will participate in field trips, roundtable worksessions,

The Northwest Straits Initiative’s unique and innovative approach combines sound science and ecosystem perspective together with citizen energy and entrepreneurship to improve efforts to save Puget Sound.

This was the agenda.

Friday, November 15
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM	Field trip: Howarth Park (optional) Hosted by the Snohomish MRC, led by Bob Hillman

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Northwest Straits 101 (optional) Dr. Lucas Hart, Director, Northwest Straits Commission Don Hunger, Executive Director, Northwest Straits Foundation



12:30 PM – 1:00 PM	Welcome and opening remarks Alan Clark, Chair, Northwest Straits Commission Anne Murphy, President, Northwest Straits Foundation Sarah Brown, Chair, Snohomish MRC Executive Dave Somers, Snohomish County

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM	Tying it all together: the impact of our collective actions Dr. Tessa Francis, Puget Sound Institute Dr. Ron Thom, Northwest Straits Commission Dr. Tom Mumford, Marine Agronomics Moderator: Dana Oster, Northwest Straits Commission staff

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Room check-in and break

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM	Musings on habitat loss and restoration in Puget Sound Dr. Tish Conway-Cranos, WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Moderator: Lisa Kaufman, Northwest Straits Foundation staff

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM	Lessons learned from painting Fishes of the Salish Sea Ray Troll, Artist

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Remarks from Senator Liz Lovelett Introduced by Tom Cowan, Northwest Straits Commission

4:30 PM

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM	Reception and networking *Podcast:* OCTOPOD – Open Communications for The Ocean Raye Evrard and Allie Brown *Book signing:* Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline Dr. Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM	Dinner and Keynote Speaker Welcome – Chairman Shawn Yanity, Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians Environmental Leadership Award *Deep Time and the Salish Sea* Dr. Kirk Johnson, Sant Director, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Saturday, November 16 Location: Courtyard by Marriott Ballroom



8:45 AM – 9:00 AM	Tying it all together – summary results Dr. Tessa Francis, Puget Sound Institute

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Building community connections Cheryl Lowe, Jefferson MRC staff Rebecca Benjamin, North Olympic Salmon Coalition Dr. Julia Parrish, UW Coastal Observation & Seabird Survey Team Moderator: Sasha Horst, Northwest Straits Commission staff

10:30 AM – 10:40 AM	Remarks from Representative Debra Lekanoff Introduced by Tom Cowan, Northwest Straits Commission

10:40AM – 10:50 AM	Break

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM	Climate change and the blue carbon revolution Dr. John Rybczyk, Western Washington University Moderator: Dr. Ron Thom, Northwest Straits Commission

11:50 AM – 12:00 PM	Remarks from US Representative Suzan DelBene Introduced by Christina Koons, San Juan MRC and Northwest Straits Commission

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM	Lunch – buffet

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM	Transboundary cooperation in killer whale conservation Dr. Rob Williams, Oceans Initiative Moderator: Ginny Broadhurst, Salish Sea Institute
Day 2: continued on next page
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM	MRC Awards Presented by: Nan McKay, Northwest Straits Commission/Foundation Anne Murphy, President, Northwest Straits Foundation

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Closing announcements

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Openings Still Available for Two-Week Summer Teen Program at NatureBridge

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Al Bergstein

This just in..

NatureBridge still has a few open spots for the Summer Field Research Course at its Olympic National Park campus. This two-week immersive backcountry expedition will give high school students the opportunity to conduct rigorous field science investigations in one of the most ecologically diverse national parks in the country.

Modeled on the successful program at NatureBridge’s Yosemite campus, the course offers an intensive teen summer science adventure. High school students will work with National Park Service scientists, using cutting-edge technology to produce their own ecological research project. The research will be included with a backpacking trip across the Olympic Mountains and ending at the Elwha River, where the largest dam removal in U.S. history is underway.

“Our teen participants will learn critical thinking skills and improve their scientific literacy and confidence,” said Jen Kidder, course director. “The course is student-centered, inquiry-based scientific learning at its most adventurous. Students learn field research skills that can transfer to high school, college and beyond.”

“We appreciate the many opportunities that NatureBridge provides for students and youth to learn about Olympic National Park,” added Olympic National Park Superintendent Sarah Creachbaum.

The Summer Field Research Course will take place July 14-26, 2013. Students interested in the program are encouraged to contact NatureBridge at 206-382-6212 extension 13 or olympicfieldresearch@naturebridge.org or register online at naturebridge.org/discoversummer.

About NatureBridge

Founded in 1971, NatureBridge provides environmental field science education for students in the world’s best classrooms—our national parks. Through residential education programs, NatureBridge connects students to the wonder and science of nature and inspires the stewards of tomorrow. As the largest residential education partner of the National Park Service, the organization serves more than 30,000 students each year and offers programs in six national parks: Yosemite National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Olympic National Park, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Channel Islands National Park, and Prince William Forest Park. NatureBridge also offers professional development opportunities for teachers and family and youth programs. NatureBridge is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. More information is available at www.naturebridge.org.

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