This former Superfund site in Tacoma is ‘Dune’ just fine now, thanks

Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma is seen from the air. (Nick Wagner / The Seattle Times)

Tantri Wija Special to The Seattle Times IF FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGISTS (whether aliens or, should we persist as a species, our own descendants) were to explore the city that might or might not still be known as Tacoma, they surely would visit its eerily beautiful Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park. Wide-eyed, they would marvel at the