Join our team to make a difference! It is our mission to protect, preserve, and enhance Washington’s environment for current and future generations. Our partnerships protect and sustain healthy land, ...

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Washington's Shoreline Management Act (SMA) applies to private projects on privately owned lands and to private, local government, and state government actions on local or state government lands. The ...

"That mark that will be found by examining the bed and banks and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark ...

We maintain the spatial datasets described here in order to better describe Washington's diverse natural and cultural environments. As a public service, we have made some of our data available for ...

Our accreditation team helps large and small laboratories to become successful environmental laboratories doing work in and/or for Washington state. Accreditation ensures that laboratories can ...

Your input is valuable to our decision-making process. We post water right documents for notice or comment. Documents posted for comment have a link to our online comment form. Other documents are ...

Our Manchester Environmental Laboratory is Washington's primary environmental laboratory, providing scientific services to local, state, federal, and Tribal governments. We have a full staff of ...

Washington is home to some of the nation's most productive farmlands. The way landowners and operators manage their lands also has important impacts on water quality. We work with landowners, ...

International markets can and do impact Washington's recycling system dramatically. Our Recycling Development Center (RDC) works to improve Washington's recycling commodities market, as needs for ...

Collectively, the GIS Technical Services Group provides a diverse and balanced set of skills with a strong background in environmental and natural resource management. We provide a hands-on ...

When we review plans, we apply a GIS-based model that uses a time and distance equation to evaluate if oil spill plans have access to the required response equipment and personnel to respond to a ...