4-24-15
Nathan Schaeffer

Our Beaches

The East and West Elwha Beaches are what the Natural Resources group mainly focuses on. We get a lot of trash from our marine debris pick ups, we walk all the way across the beach from one side to the other and pick up any trash we find. Sometimes its hard because we have a small group of people doing it but we do our best. Having the beaches clean is a huge part it allows people to go out with there kids or anyone and walk around barefoot without being to hesitant because of trash. we help keep it a nice beach and a place people want to go to have fun and see what our environment is doing. across from that we record all of the data to know what the marine mammals are doing and the birds it helps us know what is going on in the environment and our data helps us figure out where the trash is coming from. on shore trash is from us and people on land leaving there trash or storms and off shore is from boats or hatcheries anything that looses trash out in the ocean and washes up on the beaches. for more of a visual and some more information on marine debris and our beaches check out a link to a poster one of the students made. http://www.nopsc.org/natural-resources/projects/poster/finish/18-posters/125-lorenmarinedebris.html