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2010 Census Quick Facts for Kitsap County, WA

Learn more about demographics in Kitsap County, Washington.  The U.S. Census Bureau published the following quick facts.

2010 Census Quick Facts for King County, WA

Learn more about demographics in King County, Washington.  The U.S. Census Bureau published the following quick facts.

2010 Census Quick Facts for Jefferson County, WA

Learn more about demographics in Jefferson County, Washington.  The U.S. Census Bureau published the following quick facts.

2010 Census Quick Facts for Island County, WA

Learn more about demographics in Island County, Washington.  The U.S. Census Bureau published the following quick facts.

Pollution control strategies for Puget Sound

Pollution of the rivers, creeks, bays, and open waters of Puget Sound comes from a variety of sources and travels along many pathways. Spilled oil products and fuel, deposition of air pollutants, legacy toxic pollutants, disease-bearing and illness-causing organisms from failing and poorly maintained on-site sewage treatment systems, fertilizers, erosion, and the runoff from roads and parking lots

Restoration strategies for Puget Sound

In the course of building homes, businesses, roads, and infrastructure, the lands and waters of Puget Sound have been drastically modified. Levees, dams, and toxic deposits are obvious and have site-specific impacts. But less obvious are the cumulative changes from human land use activities, such as bulkheads, docks, permanent removal of native vegetation, and loss of native habitat in marine and

Protection strategies for Puget Sound

Puget Sound has been dramatically altered during the past 150 years. One-third of the shoreline has been armored, large areas of forestland and farmland have been paved or otherwise converted to other uses, and river systems have been altered by dams and levees. These actions were undertaken to produce other benefits, but they cumulatively damage and destroy the underlying ecological processes

2010 Census Quick Facts for Clallam County, WA

Learn more about demographics in Clallam County, Washington. The U.S. Census Bureau published the following quick facts.

Seaglider in the open water. Photo courtesy of Seaglider Fabrication Center

Seagliders in Puget Sound

They are sometimes called Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), or submersible drones. They glide like airships through the deeper channels of Puget Sound, and have become an important tool for a wide array of open ocean applications, including detection of marine mammals, military reconnaissance and the monitoring of environmental disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Puget Sound is

Shoreline armoring along railroad

An overview of Shoreline armoring in Puget Sound

More then 700 miles of Puget Sound shoreline is considered to be "armored," and as much as four miles of new armoring is added each year.