Protecting the health of species—fish, birds, amphibians, mammals— and protecting human health from pollution are often synonymous. Toxic contaminants have the worst effects at the top of the food chain—on people, eagles, and orca whales, for example. But many of the most devastating effects of pollution can disrupt entire food webs—those carefully balanced worlds in which microscopic plants and animals are food for yet larger creatures that are the prey for small fish that are eaten by the iconic salmon—that underpin our environment and our lives.

Invasive Species: Ship Discharges of Ballast Water

Salmon, Steelhead, and Bull Trout: Temperature Standards

Threatened & Endangered

Frogs and Salamanders: Logging Effects

Orca Whales: Puget Sound Pollution

Mink, Otter & Bald Eagles: Toxics in the Columbia