Puget Sound, pronounced "Pew-jet," stretches from the Straight of Juan de Fuca, at the northernmost corner of the United ...

It’s hard to understate the importance of salmon to the Pacific Northwest. Chinook salmon is ... after a joint project between Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce and the Bonneville Power ...

Dura said geologic fossil evidence shows that previous Cascadia earthquakes immediately dropped the land level and turned dry ground into tidal mudflats in estuaries along the Pacific Northwest.“ ...

Can tiny fossils help us prepare for the Pacific Northwest’s next big earthquake ... [Narrator] They know the area around Oregon's Salmon River Estuary dropped more than four feet during ...

The Salish Sea, a 6,500-square-mile body of water, separates northwest Washington from ... Puget Sound is a large inland estuary connected to the Pacific Ocean. The average depth is around 450 ...

There’s more islands in the Columbia River Estuary than there used to be ... for salmon and steelhead in Oregon, really the Pacific Northwest, is the Columbia River Basin. There are two American ...

Steve Wood, of Brookings, Oregon, caught a rare behemoth in the Chetco River estuary on Sept. 13. The 53-pound Chinook salmon took about 15 minutes to reel in and was caught using an anchovy and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — April is just days away and that typically means drier and warmer weather begins moving into the Pacific Northwest. April showers bring May flowers. That’s what’s ...