Wildlife Detectives

Poachers are illegally harvesting and selling Puget Sound shellfish in back-alley deals. Detectives are on the case, trying to protect natural resources and public health.

Big money and human health are at stake when it comes to Puget Sound's most lucrative clams and the people charged with protecting them.

Despite a government program that supplies Indian tribes with eagle feathers for ceremonies, high demand feeds a thriving black market.

A growing number people head out to wild places in search of the antlers that elk and deer shed. Some of those collectors harass these animals to death by chasing them down with ATVs.

Pinto abalone  were near extinction by the end of the 1990s in Puget Sound. But with a little help from science, their wild populations are slowly rising.