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.

Happy October, everyone! (But especially to the returning salmon 😍)
Excited for another super low tide day around the Sound! 💕
The sweetest little moment with the North Bend elk herd. 🥹
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We’re still in awe of this incredible encounter with almost all of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales at Lime Kiln on Monday. What a dream and a reminder of what’s at stake if we were to lose this spirited species. 💕
Babe, wake up! New summer tee just dropped! 🏔️
Staring up at the aurora, but staring down at Puget Sound’s own little galaxy. ✨
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