Join us as Scott Andrews describes to us how the armoring of shorelines and the construction of bulkheads or walls of rocks, known as riprap, impact the critical shoreline habitat around Puget Sound. Often built on the upper beach, they block the natural functioning of the nearshore and degrade habitat for forage fish spawning and lead to loss of finer beach sediments. These impacts will worsen as the sea level rises against these hardened structures blocking the upward migration of the shoreline, squeezing out the nearshore between rising waters and vertical walls. What is being done to address these growing impacts? To register please click on the Zoom Link

Scott Andrews is Senior Program Manager for Audubon Washington. Scott has a Masters in Watershed Management/Forestry and a law degree and worked for 19 years for the Swinomish Tribe as Environmental Compliance Manager. Scott has also worked for a number of environmental organizations, including as Director of the Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club, state agencies and the Nebraska Legislature.