Category: Sea Life

An Ambitious New Alliance Works to Identify What’s Happening to Our Crucial Kelp Forests in Order to Protect — and, Hopefully, Restore — Them

October 31, 2021 By Sandi Doughton The Seattle Times
That seed of an idea more than a decade ago helped inspire an ambitious new initiative to figure out why kelp is vanishing throughout much of Puget Sound, and to reverse the trend. Bringing together tribes, citizen scientists, environmental agencies, university researchers and advocates, it is the type of collaboration that’s often sought but rarely achieved