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By Sierra LeTourneau and John Weber

Coho salmon inherently prefer to travel all the way up the watershed into tributaries, small head water streams to spawn. This can be difficult for the species as tributaries are farther upstream than other salmonid spawning sites. The Coho native to Lagunitas watershed, travel through Lagunitas creek up the...


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For Immediate Release: March 3, 2026

Contact: Joanie Steinhaus, Ocean Program Director, [email protected]

The Hatchling Hustle Returns to the Beach in its Fourth Year Bringing the Gulf Community Together to Support Sea Turtles

GALVESTON, TEXAS – Turtle Island...


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Thank you to A-Z Animals and journalist Jenna Bratcher for covering our important work to protect the critically endangered Kemp’s ridely sea turtle from our Gulf of Mexico office, ran by Ocean Program Director, Joanie Steinhaus!

“The Gulf of Mexico faces numerous challenges. Industrial pollutants from a 33-state watershed impact water quality. C...


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Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced a new initiative to open significantly larger portions of the U.S. continental shelf to offshore oil and gas drilling, including waters off California that have remained free from new leases for decades. These proposals would expand industrial activity into areas long protected because of their extraordinary ecological val...


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Photo credit: Instigator/Shanna Stawicki Photography

Two recent studies confirm that sea turtles not only hear underwater sound, but that human-generated noise can significantly disrupt their behavior—interfering with feeding, navigation, and other critical life functions.

A study published in the 


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