Do you enjoy birdwatching, fishing, boating, or living along the shores of Protection Island, Miller and Quimper Peninsula?
Protection Island and its surrounding waters are unique to Puget Sound! The shorelines and deep waters surrounding Protection Island support critical life stages of exceptional fish and wildlife. Seventy-two percent of Puget Sound breeding seabirds breed and rear their young here. It’s the last stand in Puget Sound for Tufted puffins, and supports one of the largest Rhinoceros auklet colonies in the world. It supports herring, shrimp and Dungeness crab, elephant seals, and harbor seals. People For Puget Sound has nominated the state-owned tidelands and bedlands surrounding Protection Island as state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) aquatic reserve. Through an aquatic reserve, DNR sets aside aquatic lands that are of special educational or scientific interest, or of special environmental importance, and these lands are managed for long-term protection for the benefit of the public. You can have a say in how State DNR manages its aquatic lands here now and in the future. Please come
