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Billions of sea stars have died. A Northwest tribe is trying to save the species
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John Ryan
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The Samish Indian Nation is working with researchers to reintroduce endangered sunflower stars into the wild after a wasting disease nearly wiped out the species. Despite environmental challenges and previous setbacks, the team is attempting to restore this keystone species to the San Juan Islands.
On a spring morning so blustery that the National Weather Service issued a small craft advisory, a Samish Indian Nation research boat, called the Chinook (Yómech), set out from Anacortes, Washington, just east of the San Juan Islands.
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