Friends of Olympic National Park

Sea otters are native to our coast, favoring rocky offshore islands and kelp forests from the Ozette area south.  Driven to extinction on the Olympic Peninsula due to hunting and trapping, 59 sea otters were reintroduced in 1969 and 1970.  Each year a variety of methods are used to census the population to determine how the otters are faring.  Learn about sea otter natural history and potential threats to this population of charismatic animals from Steven Jeffries, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marine Mammal Investigations.
 

Co-sponsored by Friends of Olympic National Park, “Perspectives”™  talks are held at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center (3002 Mount Angeles Road) at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month from November through May.