SEQUIM — When a writer from the National Audubon Society’s monthly membership magazine called the Dungeness River Center last year and asked about scouting the area for a possible article, the team of organizations making the center run thought it might be good publicity.

They didn’t realize they would end up in a six-page spread singing the praises of their efforts once Susan McGrath got a taste of the river’s rich history and an earful of how collaborative work has resurrected a dangerously unhealthy salmon habitat.

“I think people get connected to a place if they get their hands dirty,” said biologist Byron Rot of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, who escorted McGrath, a reporter from Chicago, on a tour of the river last fall.

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The rest of the story appears in Sunday’s Peninsula Daily News.