In November of 2002 the Seattle Post-Intelligencer completed a six-month investigation into the ecological health of the Puget Sound. They published their findings in a series of articles from November 18-22, outlining the ways in which recent efforts to curtail dumping and pollution had failed to negate decades of human-caused damage to sea life and the marine environment.
This image shows a man planting native trees and other flora as the last phase of a major cleanup and habitat restoration by the Port of Tacoma in Commencement Bay. Some 5,000 yards of mud and sand contaminated with toxic dioxins, heavy metals, and PCBs were removed from the site.
Caption by Seattle Post-Intelligencer staff. Photograph published with article: "We have a chance to turn this around" by Lisa Stiffler and Robert McClure, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 22, 2002, pp. 1, 10-13
Additional Information: Metadata created as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 2000.107.20021101.CD01.014, photo by Paul Joseph Brown
