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Washington state removed approximately 2,000 tires from Frye Cove Park in northwest Thurston County this month—part of a decades-long effort to recover thousands of tires sunk in Puget Sound between the 1960s and 80s. State agencies had hoped the tires would create artificial reef habitat for rockfish and lingcod, but surveys showed fish weren’t using them. This regional environmental cleanup affects the broader Puget Sound ecosystem that Burien residents depend on.