What sea creature is so nice it’s named twice? Well, there is more than one, but only this one is a floating colony of polyps who share food and a wee sail that keeps them safely on seafaring adventures, until…
Read More
Instead of using cheap and plastic bags for trick-or-treating, use a pillow case that can be reused and can hold more candy!
Read More
What’s long, slimy, green, slithers like an eel in Salish Sea currents, and brings millions of dollars to Salish Sea families? Find out as the first flowering plant makes its debut as a Creature Feature! And yes, we had to include a Pacific spiny lumpsucker. We just can’t help ourselves.
Read More
Wear reusable masks instead of one that you just throw away. You can make reusable ones or buy them at stores like the Vancouver aquarium.
Read More
Tufted puffins are ready for a come-back in the Salish Sea, with a whole lot of support from Salish Sea Heroes. You can be a Salish Sea Hero for puffins, too!
Read MoreCreature Feature: Sea Butterflies
What flies underwater, makes fishing nets of snot to catch dead stuff and poop, and serves as one of young salmon’s favorite sea snack? Introducing pteropods!
Read More
Try to repair broken things instead of buying new ones and throwing them away.
Read More
Salish Sea Heroes: Mr. Browning’s Biology Class and Vashon Nature Center. What do you do when you are preparing to study a disease epidemic and get hit with one yourself? That’s what happened to Vashon High school students in Mr. Browning's biology class
Read More
This month’s Salish Sea Heroes show us that even 4th graders can be published authors and help teach the world how to heal the sea for shell-bearing creatures and the whole food web that needs them!
Read More
During the pandemic, you are not allowed to use your own bags grocery shopping. Or are you? When you check out, ask your parents to load your groceries right back into your cart then load them into your own, reusable bags back at the car.
Read More
Surf smelt, Hypomesus pretiosus, are gold-topped, silver fish that swim in schools and live for about five years near shorelines of the Salish Sea. Explore their Creature Feature to find out what’s weird and wonderful about this Snickers bar of the sea and ways you can help them live to feed another fish…or puffin…or porpoise.
Read More
Pinto abalone are so tasty that they were hunted and fished to “functional extinction” by people who didn’t take enough time to truly understand their lifecycle and habitat needs before making, and in some cases breaking (poachers), the collection rules. Some Salish Sea Heroes are working to turn that mistake around. Image by Aaron Baldwin, Rosario Marine Station, Walla Walla University
Read More
Make your dollars count. Shop at stores that are trying to reduce their plastic waste and help with recycling programs.
I hope you are staying safe.
Mason
Read More
Is the Sherman Elementary 5th grade going to let a pandemic like COVID-19 stop them from learning to improve the water quality of the Salish Sea? Not these Salish Sea Heroes. They just improvised. Find out how!
Read More
Who has impressive size and strength, a clever mind, and stealthy shape- and color-shifting abilities? Sounds like the next Marvel superhero, but it’s actually…
Read More
If you see something, say something. If you don’t like that a restaurant is using single-use plastic, say something. Talk to a manager, write a letter, or start a petition.
Read More
Confused about what bin to put plastics in? Or where to take some plastics? What about soft plastics? Crinkly plastics? How do I recycle it? REFUSING is the most important. The less plastic you bring home the better. With the plastics that come home take them to recycling depots or stores that make it easy to recycle.
Read More
Live your life by the six R’s which are:
REFUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, REPAIR, RETHINK, and THEN RECYCLE
Before you buy something, run it through the 6 R’s and think:
Do I really need it? Can I use something else? Or can you fix something and make it the same?
Mason and Aniela’s work to clean up the sea and inspire us to join them inspired TEDx to ask them to speak and to spark a “Shift in Thinking.” Click to watch the video above.
Read More
Salish Sea wildlife is lucky to count 7th grader, Aniela Guzikowski, as a friend, even the mermaids and krakens! Why? Because when she started to understand how plastics harm marine life, she also started to do something about it.
Read More