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Lake Lawrence itself was formed when the Vashon Glaciation created most of the topography seen in the Puget Sound region. [3] The erratic is one of the southernmost in the Puget Sound region, near the limit of the Yelm lobe of the Vashon Glacier in the Rainier area.
The Pleistocene ice age glaciation of Puget Sound created many of the geographical features of the region, including Puget Sound itself, [1] and the erratics are one of the remnants of that age. [2] According to Nick Zentner of Central Washington University Department of Geological Sciences, "Canadian rocks [are] strewn all over the Puget ...
Thurston County is a founding member of the Timberland system, which was established as a pilot project in 1964 and made into a permanent intercounty rural library district in 1968. The county had previously been served by the South Puget Sound Regional Library, which was contracted to operate libraries in the cities of Lacey, Olympia, and Yelm.
State Route 510 Alternate, also known as the Yelm Loop, is a partially completed bypass of Yelm. The first, 1.17-mile (1.88 km) [ 1 ] section opened to traffic in October 2010 and cost $4.3 million to construct.
The Puget Sound has 19 Pacific herring stocks; the populations from all have decreased since 2002. The largest decreases are found in the north Puget Sound area; where stocks dropped form roughly 12,000 tons of spawning biomass to 4,000 tons in 2004. The Cherry Point stock had particularly large decreases. [1]
The Nisqually River is the traditional territorial center of the Nisqually tribe, for which it was named, though they also lived throughout southern Puget Sound. [7] The Treaty of Medicine Creek, one of the major Northwest treaties between Washington territory and the native population of Puget Sound, was signed near a creek at the delta of the Nisqually River.
The Puget Sound Museum of Natural History is closely associated with the Department of Biology at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, United States. . Founded in 1946, it was the primary natural history museum in the state of Washington in its early years and has continued to the present to remain active in building up important collections that contribute in their own way to ...
Prairies of South Puget Sound. Before European settlement, the Georgia Depression was dominated by dense coniferous forests of Coast Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock, Western Redcedar, shore pine, and western white pine. [3] The ecoregion was also home to extensive coastal wetlands and peat bog ecosystems scattered about in poorly drained areas.