Press Center

— Racism in the conservation movement must be addressed

— Landmark legislation passes to advance Puget Sound Recovery

— One of the best ways to restore Washington's biodiversity is funding WDFW

— Visit our second birding open house in South Puget Sound on March 25, 2023 at Kennedy Creek estuary

— We can improve coastal resilience through addressing sea level rise in shoreline management

— The 2023 legislative session is underway. We have numerous opportunities to protect birds through policy change and funding in the state budget.

— New study shows that 74% of the armoring installed in San Juan County over a 10-year period had no permits from either the state or the county, and only 9% of the new armor in the county was legally permitted prior to installation

— The final report was just released for the Sagebrush Songbird Survey, an unprecedented community science partnership to create sagebrush songbird distribution models in Washington's imperiled shrub steppe ecosystem

— Shoreline armoring harms natural beaches that provide spawning habitat for forage fish, a key to Puget Sound's ecosystem