Our Wild Puget Sound was born out of a pure love for Puget Sound and an insatiable curiosity for exploring all the ways we’re connected to these wild waters.

WILDLIFE JOURNAL ARTICLES
Protecting the Pacific Northwest’s Wolverines
Protecting the Pacific Northwest’s Wolverines
Working on Wildlife Conservation in Washington State’s High Alpine Mountain Wilderness
Working on Wildlife Conservation in Washington State’s High Alpine Mountain Wilderness
Reinvisioning Highway 101 to Increase Safety, Improve the Duckabush River, and Restore Vital Salmon Habitat
Reinvisioning Highway 101 to Increase Safety, Improve the Duckabush River, and Restore Vital Salmon Habitat
New Research Shows that Gray Whales in the Pacific Coast Feeding Group Have Become Smaller Than the Rest of Their Pacific Counterparts
New Research Shows that Gray Whales in the Pacific Coast Feeding Group Have Become Smaller Than the Rest of Their Pacific Counterparts
Washington State’s Fight Against the Invasive European Green Crab Continues with More Than 400,000 Trapped and Removed
Washington State’s Fight Against the Invasive European Green Crab Continues with More Than 400,000 Trapped and Removed
While Pacific Gray Whales are Still In Decline, Increased Numbers of Mother and Calf Pairs Are a Hopeful Sign of Rebound
While Pacific Gray Whales are Still In Decline, Increased Numbers of Mother and Calf Pairs Are a Hopeful Sign of Rebound
Puget Sound Tide Pooling Guide
Puget Sound Tide Pooling Guide
Hiking Into the Home of the Pika
Hiking Into the Home of the Pika
New Research Expands the Potential Range of Mountain Lions in the Salish Sea
New Research Expands the Potential Range of Mountain Lions in the Salish Sea
Is Eating Invasive Species a Sustainable Approach to Managing a Population?
Is Eating Invasive Species a Sustainable Approach to Managing a Population?
Tem Lhawt’ — The Time of the Herring
Tem Lhawt’ — The Time of the Herring
Get to Know the Southern Resident Killer Whales
Get to Know the Southern Resident Killer Whales
Meet the Transient Orcas — Bigg’s Killer Whales — of Puget Sound
Meet the Transient Orcas — Bigg’s Killer Whales — of Puget Sound
The Returning Salmon of Piper’s Creek Watershed
The Returning Salmon of Piper’s Creek Watershed
Exploring More Ways to Deter Seals From Salmon Bottlenecks
Exploring More Ways to Deter Seals From Salmon Bottlenecks
Hail Mary Hatcheries
Hail Mary Hatcheries
An Abundance of Pink Salmon
An Abundance of Pink Salmon
The Hatchery Crutch: How We Got Here
The Hatchery Crutch: How We Got Here
Salmon Identification Guide
Salmon Identification Guide
Humpback Whales of Puget Sound
Humpback Whales of Puget Sound
Puget Sound Gray Whales
Puget Sound Gray Whales
Where to View Salmon Around Puget Sound
Where to View Salmon Around Puget Sound
A Sunny Summer Day on San Juan Island with the Southern Resident Killer Whales
A Sunny Summer Day on San Juan Island with the Southern Resident Killer Whales
Plainfin Midshipman
Plainfin Midshipman
The Peculiar History of Commercial Whaling and the Iconoclasts Who Opposed It
The Peculiar History of Commercial Whaling and the Iconoclasts Who Opposed It
The Charismatic River Otters of Port Townsend
The Charismatic River Otters of Port Townsend
Looking at the Behavior in a Typical Elephant Seal Colony
Looking at the Behavior in a Typical Elephant Seal Colony
What’s the Best Way to Handle Whales that Wash Ashore?
What’s the Best Way to Handle Whales that Wash Ashore?
A Perfect Spring Day with the T99s in Saratoga Passage
A Perfect Spring Day with the T99s in Saratoga Passage
Do Salmon Have Rights?
Do Salmon Have Rights?

We utilize art + modern storytelling to celebrate the vast life, work and ecology sustained by the Puget Sound watershed.

Can’t get enough of Puget Sound? (We don’t blame you!) — Here are some recent stories to dive into from other great publications + storytellers around the Sound:

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Remembering Ken Balcomb and his Extraordinary Life with Killer Whales
Christopher Dunagan
Remembering Ken Balcomb and his Extraordinary Life with Killer Whales
Christopher Dunagan
Christopher Dunagan
Western Wild Salmon Might Finally Get a Big Win They Desperately Need
Adventure Journal
Western Wild Salmon Might Finally Get a Big Win They Desperately Need
Adventure Journal
Adventure Journal
Gray Whale Spotted at Mukilteo Waterfront Was a Newcomer
Everett Herald
Gray Whale Spotted at Mukilteo Waterfront Was a Newcomer
Everett Herald
Everett Herald
What You Need To Know About the Extension of British Columbia’s Salmon Farm Licenses
The Narwhal
What You Need To Know About the Extension of British Columbia’s Salmon Farm Licenses
The Narwhal
The Narwhal
The Hatchery Crutch: How We Got Here
Hakai Magazine
The Hatchery Crutch: How We Got Here
Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine
The Quest to Save the Pinto Abalone
Crosscut
The Quest to Save the Pinto Abalone
Crosscut
Crosscut
What It’s Like to Learn to Surf in the Pacific Northwest in Your 30s
Field Mag
What It’s Like to Learn to Surf in the Pacific Northwest in Your 30s
Field Mag
Field Mag
Researchers Investigate Rare Wild Coho-Chinook Salmon Hybrid in the Salish Sea
Field & Stream
Researchers Investigate Rare Wild Coho-Chinook Salmon Hybrid in the Salish Sea
Field & Stream
Field & Stream
Nuclear Sea Otters: A Wildlife Refugee Story
KUOW
Nuclear Sea Otters: A Wildlife Refugee Story
KUOW
KUOW
A Mystery Worm is Threatening the Future of Washington’s Oysters
High Country News
A Mystery Worm is Threatening the Future of Washington’s Oysters
High Country News
High Country News
Tribal Leaders Allege State Intentionally Ignores Treaty Rights
Indian Country Today
Tribal Leaders Allege State Intentionally Ignores Treaty Rights
Indian Country Today
Indian Country Today
The Story of Coast Douglas-fir Forests
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
The Story of Coast Douglas-fir Forests
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
Catching Crabs in a Suffocating Sea
Hakai Magazine
Catching Crabs in a Suffocating Sea
Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine
What New Projections of Sea Level Rise Mean for Puget Sound and the Washington Coast
The Seattle Times
What New Projections of Sea Level Rise Mean for Puget Sound and the Washington Coast
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
Whale, Hello There — Gray Whales Spotted in Whidbey Basin
South Whidbey Record
Whale, Hello There — Gray Whales Spotted in Whidbey Basin
South Whidbey Record
South Whidbey Record
How a Tacoma Gas Facility Started a Fight Over Climate Change, Sovereignty and Human Rights
High Country News
How a Tacoma Gas Facility Started a Fight Over Climate Change, Sovereignty and Human Rights
High Country News
High Country News
New UW Research Explores a Way to Fight Off Invasive Green Crabs
Crosscut
New UW Research Explores a Way to Fight Off Invasive Green Crabs
Crosscut
Crosscut
Seattle’s Sea Potential Inspires Youth of Color with a Mission to Protect Environment
The Seattle Times
Seattle’s Sea Potential Inspires Youth of Color with a Mission to Protect Environment
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
Giant Kelp is Getting Less Nutritious
Hakai Magazine
Giant Kelp is Getting Less Nutritious
Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine
The Race to Free Washington’s Last Orca in Captivity
Seattle Met
The Race to Free Washington’s Last Orca in Captivity
Seattle Met
Seattle Met
Scientists Make Final Bid to Stop Port of Vancouver’s Terminal Expansion
The Narwhal
Scientists Make Final Bid to Stop Port of Vancouver’s Terminal Expansion
The Narwhal
The Narwhal
Epic Floods in Pacific Northwest Revive Long-Running Dispute Over How to Manage a River
FERN
Epic Floods in Pacific Northwest Revive Long-Running Dispute Over How to Manage a River
FERN
FERN
Can Puget Sound’s orca and salmon survive Seattle’s dams?
High Country News
Can Puget Sound’s orca and salmon survive Seattle’s dams?
High Country News
High Country News
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe calls on Seattle to remove the Gorge Dam
High Country News
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe calls on Seattle to remove the Gorge Dam
High Country News
High Country News
Two Decades and $30 Million Later, a B.C. Mine Proposal is Officially Dead
The Narwhal
Two Decades and $30 Million Later, a B.C. Mine Proposal is Officially Dead
The Narwhal
The Narwhal
Should Plants and Animals that Relocate Because of Climate Change be Considered Invasive?
Ensia
Should Plants and Animals that Relocate Because of Climate Change be Considered Invasive?
Ensia
Ensia
Humble Suckers: Pacific Lamprey Have Survived 5 Mass Extinctions But Are Now Under Threat
High Country News
Humble Suckers: Pacific Lamprey Have Survived 5 Mass Extinctions But Are Now Under Threat
High Country News
High Country News
A Shellfish Company Gets Into the Weeds
High Country News
A Shellfish Company Gets Into the Weeds
High Country News
High Country News
Spring means that the osprey are back around Puget Sound! 😍
Everyone’s favorite elephant seal, Elsie Mae, is back in Anacortes to molt, lounging on the beach and being as cute as ever. Remember to give her plenty of space if you see her (or any animal 💕).
Breakfast on the Sound with this (nearly) bald eagle. 💕🦅
The perfect PNW tea towel doesn’t exis… ♥️🦀
We’re spending some time on the Washington coast this week and came across thousands of these fascinating organisms on the beach yesterday. They’re actually super cool jellyfish-adjacent creatures called velella velella or by-the-wind s
Earhart is home! 🐋 CRC22/Earhart returned to Puget Sound yesterday for the 24th-ish year since 1990! We have a group of gray whales here called the Sounders and she’s the OG lady of the group, was first spotted in 1990, and pioneered a paten
Coming in for a landing. ✈️
We’re ecstatic to have our gray whale friends back in Puget Sound. Have you been lucky enough to spot any of these adorable beasts in the north Sound lately? 😍🐋
Sending some more goods to our friends at @hamahamaoysters! If you’re on the Hood Canal swing by their farm store and oyster saloon (and send us an invite, please! 🦪🤤). 💕
A very Wile E encounter. 💕
It’s hard to beat Mt Baker with a fresh coat. 💅
A rare iPhone pic on the feed, but the sun + Sound + fog combo was really doing the most today in the best way possible. Hope you were able to get out and enjoy it! 😍
The night time low tides are back around Puget Sound with lows hitting -3’ and even lower this week. If you’re brave enough to grab a flashlight and head to the beach for some quiet night time exploring you’re sure to find some pret
Is there anything better than Tahoma with a fresh coat of snow (on film)? 😍
Happy weekend, friends! We hope you find plenty of time to relax this weekend ahead of the holiday week. If you need a little bit of inspiration look to Puget Sound’s Queen of Resting — Elsie Mae 💕
We sent out our shop's fall newsletter yesterday with an update on new products, our fall sale and where you can find our products locally for those last-minute gift runs. If you aren't signed up for the newsletter yet you can do that on our shop ho