The Skookum Wulge site, formerly known as the Meeker site, is located on a parcel owned by the Puyallup Tribe just outside of the mouth of the Hylebos Waterway. The site covers less than one acre and is bounded by Marine View Drive to the northeast, and residential properties to the southeast and northwest. Across Marine View Drive is a steep undeveloped wooded slope rising to approximately 400 feet above mean sea level. The site was reportedly occupied by a residential structure until the mid-1930s. At that time, a landslide from the steep hillside adjacent to Marine View Drive swept the structure into Commencement Bay and the site has been undeveloped since that time.
The site slopes gently from Marine View Drive towards Commencement Bay. A low, steep erosional bluff, approximately 2 to 4 feet high, separates the upland portion of the site from the beach below. The upland area is semi-circular in shape and protrudes approximately 100 feet towards the southwest into Commencement Bay. The landform is apparently the remnant of the landslide. The steep face at the edge of the upland area seemingly indicates that wave action is eroding the face and cutting back towards Marine View Drive.
The beach below the upland bluff is composed of gravel and cobble-sized materials that are similar to materials present in the exposed bluff. The beach grades uniformly towards the benthic environment in a radial pattern that is consistent with erosion from a relatively recent landslide. The beach slopes at approximately 10 to 12 percent away from the bluff.
In 1999, the Trustees evaluated restoration alternatives for the Skookum Wulge site and decided that site conditions made the "no-action" alternative preferable.