The name Salish (pronounced SAY'-lish) Sea can now be used on maps (and, hopefully, charts) and other materials, the result of being officially adopted this past Thursday by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. We posted on this blog on November 5th that Washington State, and earlier Canada, had approved the naming of this great body of waters from Olympia north to Canada's Desolation Sound.
Now we can watch NOAA run to update their charts.
The painting (above) by Joel Nakamaru, as reproduced on the Washington Sea Grant calendar, depicts the sea life from orca to oysters in our marine environment.
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