Puget Sound kelp need your help; kelp beds disappearing throughout area. Nov 18, 2020, 5:21 AM. Photo courtesy of Washington State Department of Natural Resources – Nearshore Habitat Program.

As Puget Sound temperatures increase, bull kelp struggles to stay alive. Between 2013 and 2018, researchers at the Washington Department of Natural Resources studied four bull kelp beds in south ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A recent study of kelp beds in Puget Sound waters show some are declining at an alarming rate, which threatens a food source for salmon, and ultimately orcas. Ecologists with the ...

As Puget Sound temperatures increase, bull kelp struggles to stay alive. Between 2013 and 2018, researchers at the Washington Department of Natural Resources studied four bull kelp beds in south ...

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.

Those are the same reasons Berry is particularly concerned about the long-term health of kelp beds near Whatcom County. “In Puget Sound, since every location is unique, we aren’t worried about ...

Kelp crabs cling to a stalk of bull kelp in south Puget Sound in 2014. Kelp beds have collapsed in south Puget Sound since 2013. The Pacific Ocean heat wave known as the Blob coincided with the ...

In 2013, Berry and DNR began to study four kelp beds in South Puget Sound.Two — Brisco Point and Devil’s Head — are now devoid of the species, she said. Bull kelp canopy near Squaxin Island ...

Unlike South Puget Sound counterparts, area floating kelp beds are ... Though there used to be significantly more bull kelp throughout Puget Sound, narrow beds still float at the fringes of rocky ...

Kelp beds across Puget Sound are showing signs of stress by decreasing in size or disappearing entirely in some areas. In south Puget Sound, 80% of bull kelp were lost in the past 50 years, ...

As Puget Sound temperatures increase, bull kelp struggles to stay alive. Between 2013 and 2018, researchers at the Washington Department of Natural Resources studied four bull kelp beds in south ...