Features
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Meet Our AmeriCorps Service Members
AmeriCorps members Jawad Frangieh and Ruthie Aldrich are serving as Conservation Educators/Scientists. Their service includes developing science curriculum and planning field trips for 800 second graders in North Thurston School District. As part of their service, they also organize and lead outreach events in the community, including the Prairie Bioblitz at Wolf Haven International.
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Mazama pocket gopher screening protocol
The Service is announcing a Mazama pocket gopher screening protocol for local jurisdictions in the range of the listed subspecies in Pierce and Thurston Counties.
MPG Dear Interested Party letter and screening protocol checklist
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Environmental Contaminants Program in WA Story Maps
Do you want to learn about the work being done to plan and respond to pollution? Click on one of the following Story Map links to learn more about where we work, the work that we do, and our shared consequences with the environment.
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Pre-spawn Mortality Research Progresses
Ken King, biological science technician with USFWS, and partners continue to explore pre-spawn mortality in western Washington. To learn more about stormwater impacts and potential solutions to Coho Pre-Spawn Mortality, please watch The Nature Conservancy video made in partnership with the Puget Sound Stormwater Science Team.
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Connecting Young Fly Fishers with Nature
Every summer, the Olympia Council of Trout Unlimited—one of our office’s 2017 Connecting People with Nature grantees—partners with several other northwest Washington fishing groups to hold the NW Youth Conservation and Fly Fishing Academy. Experience the adventures of the academy and its young campers in this vibrant Story Map!
Recent News
Comment Period Extended on Plan to Address Conservation of Marbled Murrelets in Washington
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will extend the public comment period regarding the Washington Department of Natural Resources' revised draft EIS and proposed Habitat Conservation Plan amendment for the long-term conservation strategy for the marbled murrelet. The comment period is extended through December 6, 2018.
News Release
Federal Register Notice
Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement
Recent News
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Salmon are dying, Puget Sound area residents can help
Salmon exposed to toxic stormwater runoff can die in a matter of hours, and scientists are asking for Puget Sound area residents’ help in identifying affected streams to study the phenomenon. A new, interactive tool trains citizen scientists to identfy and report coho mortality.
Read the news release
Visit the interactive Coho Urban Runoff Mortality Syndrome story map
The Joint Base Lewis-McChord Sentinel Landscape
Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) supports military training while also hosting 90% of the remaining prairie habitat in the South Puget Sound. Through the Sentinel Landscapes Partnership, the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, and Defense work with a variety of partners to promote working lands, protect wildlife species and habitat, and ensure military readiness at the base.
The Hyporheic Zone
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Video Reveals Little Known World of Riverbeds
Not all that you see when you look at a river is above ground. There is a hidden world that exists beneath the bottom, in the vast network of interconnected spaces between the pebbles that make up the streambed. Scientists call this the hyporheic zone. The hyporheic zone is a place where water flowing in the stream channel percolates down into the streambed, mixes with groundwater, and reemerges to join the surface water somewhere downstream. The hyporheic zone is important because it helps to cool, filter, and cleanse the stream water, and also because strange, vital things are living there.
Watch “The Secret Life of Rivers,” a short video introduction to the world of the hyporheic zone.
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