Kelp disappearing from Puget Sound, researchers step in. Posted: October 28, 2024 | Last updated: December 29, 2024. Changes in the water, weather and environment around Puget Sound are causing ...

Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of conservationists to jumpstart the recovery of kelp, salmon, and orca.

Kelp has vanished from about 80% of the shorelines around which it once grew in Puget Sound, according to a 2023 report from Washington’s Kelp Forest Monitoring Alliance. South of the Tacoma ...

About 80 percent of bull kelp in Central and South Puget Sound has disappeared since the 1870s, according to a 2023 report from Washington’s Kelp Forest Monitoring Alliance.

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.

It can grow more than a foot a day. The specimens that wash up on beaches have detached from the ocean floor. Puget Sound has lost about two-thirds of its bull kelp forests, according to PDZA.

Joseph Peters, Puget Sound Restoration Fund board of directors and Squaxin Island Tribe member, at the announcement on Monday, July 22, 2024. Courtesy of the Washington State Department of Natural ...

Joseph Peters, Puget Sound Restoration Fund board of directors and Squaxin Island Tribe member, at the announcement on Monday, July 22, 2024. Courtesy of the Washington State Department of Natural ...

Joseph Peters, Puget Sound Restoration Fund board of directors and Squaxin Island Tribe member, at the announcement on Monday, July 22, 2024. Courtesy of the Washington State Department of Natural ...

Joseph Peters, Puget Sound Restoration Fund board of directors and Squaxin Island Tribe member, at the announcement on Monday, July 22, 2024. Courtesy of the Washington State Department of Natural ...