Salish Sea

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Salish Sea

An arm of the Pacific Ocean consisting of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, and the Strait of Georgia.
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Set in a fictional coastal community on Vancouver Island, "The Casebook of Doctor Sababa" is the story of the Sage of the Salish Sea, an internal medicine consultant at Harbour City Regional Hospital, his ability to sleuth out difficult diagnoses, and his struggle with difficult diagnoses, caught between the suits and the snowflakes.
Both species are native to Puget Sound off Seattle's coast and the Salish Sea, and have learning and problem-solving capabilities analogous to those studied in crows, parrots and primates.
Keep an eye out for the pods of orcas as you cruise through the Salish Sea and step ashore in the charming community of Eastsound.
In sections on discovery and recovery, fresh perspectives, and unexpected finds, they consider such topics as wet-site archaeology from a northwest coast perspective, recovering and caring for wet perishable artifacts: strategies and procedures, wooden self-armed fishhooks from the Salish Sea, a 750-year-old basket cradle from the Stave River Delta in southwestern British Columbia, and Early and Middle Holocene waterlogged materials from archaeological sites on the central coast of British Columbia.
Every day is different on Gran's island in the Salish Sea. The narrator, her granddaughter, climbs big-leaf maples, eats blackberries, explores tide pools and sandstone caves and examines ancient middens and petroglyphs.
"Canada needs to act immediately to stop the disaster in the Salish Sea that is destroying our salmon and endangering our whales," said Roy Jones, an elder of the Haida Gwaii First Nations and chairman of the Pacific Balance Pinniped Society (PBPS).
On a tiny island in northern Washington's Salish Sea, Lindsey and Zach
Northwest Indian College's Salish Sea Research Center was awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
taylori photographed within its previously known range in the San Juan Islands, Salish Sea (Fig.
As you may know, Tahlequah (aka J35) is the 20-year-old Salish Sea orca who refused to let go of the body of her newborn daughter who died within 30 minutes of birth on July 24.
A team of research scientists climbed into a small submarine and plunged to the bottom of the Salish Sea off San Juan Island last week, in search of the forage fish that are a staple of the chinook's diet.
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