Rats were briefly harvested in Puget Sound in the mid-1900s, not for food but as a source of machine oil and fish meal. “They’re not economically important,” Palsson says.

The annual king tide season will come to an end, as waters around Puget Sound and the Washington coast will peak Jan. 4-6 and Jan. 12-14. Olympia is shown here around the onset of king tides in ...

The season’s third and final round of king tides will run their course around Puget Sound this weekend and next as the sun reaches its nearest point to Earth, but flooding is, thankfully ...

The annual king tide season will come to an end, as waters around Puget Sound and the Washington coast will peak Jan. 4-6 and Jan. 12-14. Olympia is shown here around the onset of king tides in ...