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By George McCormick-Credits to the Forks Forum

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, which will be closed to seabed mining and oil and gas exploration, encompasses about 135 miles of pristine coastline and 2,500 square nautical miles. It extends north of Ocean City to just northwest of Neah Bay.

The sanctuary protects one of the largest concentrations of seabirds in the continental U.S., more varieties of kelp than anywhere else and the world's largest octopus species. It is the home of transplanted sea otters and harbors gray whales migrating south and north in fall and spring. Seals, sea lions, deer and eagles are common sights among the sea stacks and tiny islands that surging surf has pounded out of the coastline over the ages.