Our Wild Puget Sound

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We use art + education + storytelling to highlight the magic of the Puget Sound watershed. 💕 Our website is full of guides + info to help you make the most of the Salish Sea + handcrafted items to help you celebrate it. www.ourwildpugetsound.com

Two Bigg’s /Transient Killer Whales / Orcas in the Salish Sea
A great blue heron standing in the intertidal zone in Puget Sound.
The Sheep Lake hike at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State
A green heron stretching to reach a branch near Seattle, Washington
Hand screen printed tee shirts and clothing printed with ecofriendly ink.
A giant, bet-winning 😉, Lewis' moon snail at Picnic Point Park in Edmonds, Washington
Pelagic cormorants sitting on an old dock at the Coupeville Ferry Terminal on Whidbey Island over Puget Sound
An American Coot bird swimming on the water.
An American Coot bird walking along a snowy lake. #wildlifephotography #birding #birders
A duck chick catching a bug out of the air on Lake Washington in Seattle. #birdoftheday #wildlifephotography
Wildlife photography of a downy woodpecker in the Skagit Valley of Washington State
A short-eared owl screaming into the void in the Skagit Valley of Washington State
A great horned owl perched in a tree in the Skagit Valley
A horned nudibranch (Hermissenda crassicornis) in the Salish Sea
A great blue heron fishing in Puget Sound
Holographic sticker of a gray whale
“Building new housing is one of the most important things we can do to help our orca population survive,” Cruickshank said. “Density actually helps orca populations. That’s because it reduces the amount of pollution in stormwater that harms salmon and the orca that depend on the salmon runs. Now, what is in that stormwater that harms salmon and orca? It’s runoff from cars. It’s oil, it’s bits of tires. It’s the shavings off the brakes when you hit the brakes, when you’re driving. Stuff like that that gets into the stormwater, runoff goes into the sound, kills salmon and hurts orcas, and it’s exacerbated when we build sprawl, when we cut down forests and pave over farmland that destroys salmon habitat that orcas depend on, it also means more people are driving. So what we need to do is build dense cities.”
Three snow geese landing in a field in Mount Vernon, Washington State
Endangered southern resident killers whales, J Pod orcas, swimming northbound in Haro Strait past Lime Kiln State Park on San Juan Island
A Canada Goose gosling at a park near Seattle, Washington