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About Our Projects
Our work is guided by five benchmarks-for-action
established by the Northwest Straits Commission
(NWSC), by our strategic
plan and by a work
plan we create each year.
In our first five years, from 1999 - 2004, we focused
primarily on gathering baseline scientific data
about our nearshore. We mapped our shoreline for
forage fish spawning sites, eelgrass beds, shoreline
hardening and feeder bluffs.
Crews remove a derelict net that was snagged
on the bottom at Keystone Spit. Photo courtesy
Phyllis Kind
In 2003 we shifted increasingly toward education and
outreach. We established marine stewardship areas and
a Shore Stewards program. In 2006 we added a bluff
birds study, partnered in juvenile salmonid seining
studies in several pocket estuaries, started compiling
water quality data and published a stewardship guide
to shoreline access. We participated in the NWSC's
derelict gear and creosote debris removal projects,
and in 2007 embarked on several nearshore restoration
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