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Kelp need help: Paul Allen’s foundation, enviros and entrepreneurs step up to save an essential seaweed

A scuba diver among a bed of kelp in Edmonds, Wash. (Gray McKenna Photo) Kelp is cool. Some varieties of the ribbony seaweed can grow up to two feet a day. They form “marine skyscrapers” that stretch up to 45 feet from the seafloor to the surface, creating habitat for crabs, fish and sea otters….