The environmental health of Puget Sound has a diverse and complex history. This article discusses many aspects of Puget Sound, Washington, and how this part of the west coast has a long, involved relationship with its marine and freshwater ecosystems. Many in Puget Sound have turned to population fluctuations in salmonids as indicators environmental health (Montgomery 2003).

Bigfoot is alive, and thriving on fresh salmon and butter clams in the Hoh Rain Forest. The Hoh Rainforest is on the flanks of the Olympic Mountains in Western Washington. Nearby where this picture was taken of the statue, there are plaster cast footprints, measuring 15 inches and 17 inches.

Just the thought of Alaska and salmon fishing in the same mental picture conjures images of grandeur, pristine forest, snowy peaks, and a pole bent double while the line rips through the water. Alaska salmon fishing has been discovered closer than you could expect and more beautiful than all the pictures you've seen.

Driving around King Salmon, Alaska at midnight I found this scene. To much description would ruin it.

DDT harmed falcons, sea lions, and salmon. In 1962 Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, documenting this abuse and painting so damning a picture that the chemical was eventually outlawed by most of the world. Exceptions were made for malaria control, but DDT became nearly impossible to procure. The ban on DDT may have killed 20 million children.

The picture says it all...