THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA — The R/V Puffin sliced through uncharacteristically calm waters near Smith Island, a lopsided pancake of land often buffeted by wind and waves at the end of the strait. Just after a July sunrise, four researchers on the boat eyed a cracked and collapsing bluff, the home to about […]
A PNW bird is in mysterious decline. Two Salish Sea islands hold clues
