GARDINER — A ceremony designating 23,778 acres of state-owned tidelands and bed lands around Protection Island as a state aquatic reserve is planned in Gardiner on Wednesday. The ceremony formally ...

PROTECTION ISLAND (AP) — Jim Hayward slips on a hard hat and pops open an umbrella before stepping into a storm of angry gulls. Hayward, a seabird biologist based on Protection Island in the Strait of ...

PROTECTION ISLAND, Jefferson County — When Marty Bluewater comes home to Protection Island these days, he’s astounded by the silence. He listens to the ocean waves lapping on the beach 150 feet below ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Washington State’s Protection Island, Marty Bluewater stands alone. A colony of ...

I've wanted to visit Protection Island ever since I learned I wasn't allowed to. The nearly bare strip of land in the Strait of Juan de Fuca is closed to the public – and for good reason. The island ...

Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge, Site 38 from “Olympic Loop” of Audubon Washington’s Great Washington State Birding Trail. Location: Near the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de ...

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. — Life can be complicated when you live on a deserted island -- especially when your boat sank last winter. “Well, that's the thing about living on the island,” said Marty ...