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Meet the hardworking engineers of Carpenter Lake
On a recent walk to Carpenter Lake, the special bog behind Gordon Elementary School, we were pleasantly surprised…
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Bull kelp is a buoy of the ecosystem | Waterways
One of the things we do when Stillwaters takes people out on short educational ecocruises in Appletree Cove…
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How about some plastic with your sand? | Waterways
One of the things marine researchers (and those of us that spend time on the beach) have begun…
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Big or small, our local creeks and streams play an important role | Waterways
All these bodies of water are connected and researchers and policy makers alike have realized that they influence…
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Stormwater: Sure it’s necessary, but how do we manage it? | Waterways
At the time of this writing, we have just had some very wet days.
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Abundance of places where you can observe nature | Waterways
Recently folks in the north end of Kitsap were asking for itineraries to advertize to promote tourism in…
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Watershed’s important role in our ecosystem | Waterways
Each one of us is in a watershed every day as we move on the landscape between home,…
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Survey team watches skies, helps waterway studies | WaterWays
An intrepid group of volunteers monitors the skies, trees and water in and around Kingston. They are the…
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Aquatic critters are the backbone of any healthy fish stream | Waterways
One of the many things that make a stream, a great stream for fish, is the presence of…
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The ‘Grand Central’ of marine life | Waterways
As you may have observed, there are many changes happening in the slough area south of the new…
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Dungeness is not the only crab in the estuary | Waterways
In early July, I had the privilege of using some new equipment Stillwaters has obtained to do some…
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Discover what lives in Carpenter Creek Estuary | WaterWays
As we watch the natural forces of water, wind, rain, tumbling rocks and woody debris sculpt our new…
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Appletree Cove beach is rich in ‘dollars’ | Waterways
We have dollars lying around Kingston! As some of you may know, there is a sand dollar colony…
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Project means big changes for estuary | WaterWays
I (and maybe you too) have walked down to the water’s edge on the Apple Tree Cove side…
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Learn more about ways we can control, clean our stormwater | WaterWays
While Stillwaters does its best to keep track of the water quality in the Carpenter Creek Watershed and…
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Change afoot at Carpenter Creek estuary | Water Ways | July
With the South Kingston Bridge beginning, much is changing at the Carpenter Creek estuary. Traffic will be slowed…
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Carpenter Creek estuary teems with life | Water Ways | June
The folks at Stillwaters regularly “take the pulse” of Carpenter Creek and its estuary by sampling water quality. …
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Stream health is a shifting puzzle | Water Ways | April
As the Stillwaters Stream Monitors ventured out on a raining Sunday ready to take measurements of dissolved oxygen,…
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Old idea leads to new thinking on stormwater | Water Ways | November
We all have a relationship with stormwater. We route it off our roofs and away from our houses…
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A fresh view of Appletree Cove | Water Ways | October
For about a month in the early summer, Stillwaters sponsored four three-hour boat cruises to allow participants to…