Media Items
Family Forest Fish Passage Program
Salmon passage has been in the media quite a bit lately. One of the programs that already exists to address this problem is the Washington State Family Forest Fish Passage Program.
Traveling at the Speed of Worm
Giant pile worms or sea nymphs rise from their burrow when the moon and tides are right. They swim vigorously with the males following the females, eggs or sperm pouring out of each
RETURN OF THE RIVER: ELWHA DAM REMOVAL DOCUMENTARY
John Gussman has blazed a new trail by applying his journalistic skill to creating a web site that something of a living documentary — it allows you to watch the process of the dam removal and the evolution of the film as well.
December 2012 Newsletter
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Is Barotrauma Keeping You Up? Try Getting Down with Recompression!
This entertaining video shows how you can release bloated rockfish to give them a chance at survival. Rockfish are long-lived fish (many live to 100 years or more!) found in the Northeast Pacific ocean and populations have been in decline since the mid-1980s.
Water Life: Episode 2 – Water & Wood
Water and Wood illustrates the powerful forces at work restoring the ecological values and functions of Oregon’s Rivers. This project took place on the McKenzie River in the Willamette National Forest, and provides critical habitat for aquatic species like Spring Chinook Salmon, Steelhead, lamprey, and many other aquatic critters.
Watershed Report: the video versions
Narrated entirely by local high school students, the Watershed Report is an award winning series of short video reports on positive sustainability trends in the 13 school districts and 27 cities of the greater Lake Washington Watershed.
Make a Sound Impact! Student Video Contest
See the winners of Facing the Future’s Make a Sound Impact student video contest in 2011. You can also see all of the videos submitted to the contest.
The River — an Inuit Throat Song
Even the rivers feel the short urgency of the Arctic Summer – as they tumble over the tundra.
SEA-Inside: Pacific Northwest
SEA-Inside: Pacific Northwest — a TV series that takes you for a journey to meet our neighbors under the surface of Pacific Northwest waters.
Also published by SEA-Media:
A free online magazine that takes inquisitive readers outdoors with visually rich storytelling about features people can see firsthand in our public forests and beaches.
Our Blogs
Long Overdue Update
SEA-Media is publishing Salish Magazine, a quarterly, advertisement free, on-line publication that reveals the inter-connectedness of our natural world through visual rich stories about outdoor features in our Salish Sea region. We now (Nov. 2019) have 5 issues online, and a 6th coming in December 2019. You can see it at: SalishMagazine.org This has monopolized
Wrapping Up 2017
In last December’s blog, I talked briefly about expanding SEA-Media’s horizons to include significant ecosystem connections with our waters — even when it meant paying attention to the (shudder) terrestrial parts of our environment 🙂
Olympic Peninsula Environmental News
- A Quote worth noting on Refuge Management April 27, 2026As the controversy over the possible transfer of management and ownership of the Dungeness Wildlife Refuge and Protection Island to the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe continues, I was sent this quote which sums up the issue of approving this transfer. At the moment, the Refuge decision making process is theoretically one for the protection of its […]
Salish Sea News & Weather
- 4/27 Monk seal, Sunrise pipeline, wildfire cost, BC interior fires, fish-trucking, Skagit battery energy storage, slime mold, flood mitigation, meme war, marathon milestone, democracy watch. April 27, 2026Dear Readers: Salish Sea News and Weather will take a break and return on May 11. Mahalo. Hawaiian Monk SealHawaiian Monk Seal Neomonachus schauinslandi The Hawaiian monk seal is a vulnerable species of earless seal in the family Phocidae that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian monk seal is one of two extant […]