11-21-2002 Area`s defining waterway is a cesspool of pollution
State and federal protectors of the environment assure us that the wholesale dumping of toxic chemicals -- from Commencement Bay to Sinclair Inlet, from Hood Canal to the Strait of Juan de Fuca -- ended a generation ago. They tell us they have cracked down on overfishing, overbuilding and overflows from sewage treatment plants. The truth is, we`re still treating the Sound like a sewer. Seattle P.I. Full Story

11-21-2002 Unbalanced ecosystem imperils rich web of life
Some 92,000 acres of mud and sand at the bottom of the Sound are contaminated. It is the unwelcome legacy of human activity -- from paper mills releasing dioxin and smelters coughing deadly metals to the military dumping of PCBs. Seattle P.I. Full Story

11-21-2002 A way of life disappears with the fish
HOODSPORT -- Dave Herrera has been fishing the waters of Hood Canal since he was a kid, much like other members of the Skokomish Tribe. Although his gear changes seasonally -- gill nets to crab pots -- the work has been the same for his people for more than a millennium. Seattle P.I. Full Story