Summer 2009

• News from the Watershed: Two New Docks and a Clean Marina in Union
• Health of Our Streams: New Analysis Complete
• Natural Yard Care Brochure
• Enhancing the South Fork of the Skokomish River
• Geoduck Research Funding
• ToxicFree Tips
• Clean Groundwater and Base Flows
• Watershed Team Member Profiles
• Help Control Knotweed

Winter 2009

• Shoreline Projects Near Hoodsport
• A Growing Water Quality Concern: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
• Disposing of Drugs at Home
• Let’s Implement the WRIA 16 Plan
• Reflections on the 2007 Floods
• Meet your Watershed Team Members
• Who Speaks for Hood Canal?

Spring 2008

• Focus on Flooding
• d3shLabu’xt Returns! Flows Increase in the North Fork Skokomish River
• Watershed Action Plan: The “DIP”
• What is Aggradation?
• Puget Sound Partnership and its Action Agenda
• WRIA 16 Planning Area Now Includes South Shore
• Dosewallips and Duckabush Rivers to have Flood Hazard Management Plan
• When Floods & Fish Mix
• Protect Your Possessions and the Canal
• Protect Your Septic System from Flood Damage
• Emergency Managers Recount the December Floods
• How to Manage Your Drinking Water and Well after a Flood
• Mysterious Krill Kill

Fall 2007

• Webb Hill Study:
• Monitoring Wells Installed
• Water Quality Investigation Underway
• Annas Bay: Shellfish Protection District Progress Report
• Has Your Well Water Been Tested Lately?
• Skokomish Watershed: Approaches Water Quality Standards for Bacteria
• Watershed Team Field Trips: Skokomish River Delta and Proposed Black Point Resort

Summer 2006

• It’s Official! Watershed Team and County Commissioners Approve WRIA 16 Watershed Plan
• WRIA 16 Plan Passes Unanimously
• Watershed Team Members Comment at the May 11 Vote

Spring 2006

• Watershed Team Introduces Watershed Plan to the Public
• WRIA 16 Final Draft Recommendations are Here!
• New Study: Sizing Up Flows and Passage for Fish
• Next Steps for the Watershed Plan
• Watershed Team Retreat Held in Union
• WRIA 16 Watershed Plan’s Lead Writer
• It’s Spring. Enjoy the Snow!
• What’s Been Studied in WRIA 16?

Fall 2005

• Taking the N Out of Septics
• Preliminary Draft Watershed Plan Available
• Really Friendly Bacteria
• Meet Some Watershed Team Members
• Maximize the Life of Your On-site System
• Rub Strips

Spring 2005

• What’s at Stake in WRIA 16: Key Issues for Our Watershed Plan
• A Stormwater Story: Drip and Splat
• New Hydrogeologic Study of the Brinnon Area
• Running a River with “Instream Flows”
• Meet some Watershed Team Members

December 2004

• Cascadia Consulting Group Prepares Skokomish-Dosewallips Watershed Plan
• WRIA 16 Watershed Team Vision
• Skokomish Tribe Keeps Chum Salmon Carcasses Out of Hood Canal
• Meet some of the Watershed Team Members and New County Staff
• Newly Formed Joint Watershed Planning Committee Develops Big Picture of Hood Canal

May 2004

• Local Watershed Planning – Vital to Your Future
• Water Quantity and Water Quality Recommendations from Quilcene-Snow Watershed Plan
• Low Dissolved Oxygen – Regional Meeting for WRIAs 14, 15, & 16
• Dosewallips – Skokomish Watershed Planning, Progress Report

January 2004

• Technical Studies in Brinnon & Hood Canal’s South Shore
• News from the Watershed & Hood Canal Low Dissolved Oxygen
• 10 Things You Can Do to Help Hood Canal
• It’s a Flood – What Should I Do for Water?

March 2003

• A Debt We Owe to the Future
• Watershed Team Members Identify Plan Priorities
• 1,000 Cups of Coffee…
• Meeting Information
• What Are Aquifers?

November 2002

• WRIA 16 Vision Statement
• Community Watershed Forums
• Citizens Want to Know

July 2002

• Water Rights & Instream Flows
• Water Conservancy Board
• Citizens Want to Know…
• Watershed Stewardship

May 2002

• What’s a Water Budget?
• Hydrologic Cycle Dynamics
• Citizens Want to Know
• I’ve Watched this River for Over 70 Years…

February 2002

• Watershed Management Act Purpose
• What Participating Citizens Say
• What’s Been Done & What’s Next