“Region once held more than 10 times as much surface kelp as recent baselines suggested … in the most inland parts of Puget Sound, some bull kelp beds had declined by as much as 96 per cent, with much of the loss likely occurring between 1978 and 2013” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/11/n...
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Photos from 1972 revealed BC lost vast kelp forests to climate change decades before scientists realized how much was gone.
