By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
As of November 2005 the local Puget Sound orcas also known as the Southern Resident Community (SRC) are listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. NOAA was originally petitioned in 2001, but they declared the SRC insufficient to comprise a species, subspecies, or evolutionary significant unit. As [...]
By Sound News reporter Scott Nordquist
Imagine the alarm if all of your plastic bags united together and emerged from the depths of your kitchen drawer to form one super bag. For many Puget Sound residents this haunting thought has already become a reality.
A shocking howl rang out across the steps of the Capitol as [...]
By Sound News reporter Clea Hersperger
Perfectly normal-looking herring swim through Puget Sound waters, but they’re not really swimming as quickly as you’d expect. Some herring are suffering heart problems due to exposure to pollutants. But we wouldn’t expect this from measuring pollutants, because the levels are so low.
Adult Coho salmon return to our [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
The Beginning:
In 1964 the orca whale, the creature that inspired terror on the open seas transformed into man’s greatest captive fascination after the unintentional live capture of Moby Doll. Samuel Burich, a sculptor hired by the Seattle Aquarium, embarked on a mission to procure a model for his life size [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
The news in the orca world is looking a little less bleak with the sighting of the third orca calf this year, J45, in Haro Strait. The two other local orca calves are J44 and L112 belonging to the J and L local resident pods respectively.
When a calf is born [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
The transient orcas, those that travel through Puget Sound on occasion, usually travel in groups of two or three. However, on February 23 the transient orcas were sighted up north around Vancouver in a group of 19 animals. This grouping would be considered a superpod, where multiple pods of animals [...]
By Puget Sound reporter Lyndsay Gordon
L-57, named Faith, was recently publicly announced as missing and he has been missing since Fall 2008. This is the first stretch of time that Faith has not been sighted with his family, the L pod. Orca’s are declared missing when researchers don’t observe them when their family groups are [...]
By Sound News reporter Jeanne Fulcher
When the first run of kokanee salmon was declared “functionally extinct” in 2003, King County officials had some guesses as to what was going on, but no solid answers. And without answers, they weren’t sure they could help the two remaining kokanee runs.
King County and the Washington Department of Fish [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
Three movies, three plots, three sets of characters, but one animal: the orca whale. A horror movie, an educational movie, and a children’s film all star an orca whale but cast the creature in very different lights. Hollywood has captured in bits and pieces the history between humans and [...]
By Sound News Reporter Erica Petru
The conference-goers leaned back in their seats trying to fight off the afternoon drowsiness. Dim lights and a sparsely populated auditorium detracted from their efforts. As Julie Horowitz took the podium with a bright welcome, the audience sat up a bit, intrigued by the new speaker.
On Wednesday, February 18, The [...]
