Sunflower sea stars — recently decimated from the ocean off western Mexico, California, Oregon and Washington — are like wolves of the kelp forest, eating sea urchins that will overgraze
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Story by Ned Rozell Oregon State University biologist and diver Sarah Gravem motors past Sitka on her way to a kelp forest she is monitoring. Photo by Jake