Environmental Science Program Seminar - 11/16/2000 - Val Veirs

Overview of the region, Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia

The northwestern inland waters surrounding the San Juan Islands and north to Johnstone Strait comprise a unique saltwater estuary marine environment formed by the outflow of Canada's Fraser River. In recent years increasing number of sailors, islanders, and scientists now refer to these waters as the Salish Sea in honor of the native Coast Salish people who inhabited the islands before any county, state or national boundary lines where ever drawn.