Washington State Department of Ecology

Publication Summary

Title

Issue Up Close: Puget Sound: Protecting and Restoring a National Treasure

Month-Year Published

January 2007

Revised on

June 2007

Online Availability

not available

Short Description

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December 19, 2005, marked a new beginning in our efforts to protect and restore Puget Sound and Hood Canal. On that day, Governor Chris Gregoire enlisted some of the region′s leading citizens in launching a year-long public-private Puget Sound Partnership to develop recommendations for restoring Puget Sound and Hood Canal to good ecosystem health by 2020.

She gave them a daunting assignment - within one year, deliver:

A 2020 Action Agenda: a set of key actions to protect and recover Puget Sound.

A plan to engage, educate and motivate citizens, governments, business and conservation communities, and others in protecting and restoring Puget Sound.

Recommendations regarding the best organizational and governmental structure to hold state government accountable for results that will protect and restore the Sound.

An evaluation and recommendations on the current investment in Puget Sound and the potential need for additional investment.

A scientific basis for action: recommend how scientific knowledge and future inquiry should be organized and applied to protecting and restoring Puget Sound.

Meanwhile, the Governor went immediately to work with the Legislature in the 2006 legislative session, enacting a $52 million package to jump start Puget Sound restoration by addressing critical near-term needs.

She took these actions because of growing evidence that, beneath its blue waters, Puget Sound is in trouble.

Publication Number

07-01-005

Contact

Curt Hart, (360) 407-7139

Print Availability

Not available as a printed document

Number of pages

Keywords

partnership, Puget Sound

Subject Waterbodies

Puget Sound