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Puget Sound Vital Signs
Our Sound. Our Community. Our Chance.
Puget Sound is ailing, and restoring its health is not easy work. But now is the time to take action. Working with scientists, governments, tribes, businesses, and the public, the Puget Sound Partnership has identified vital signs that will give us a quick look at the health of Puget Sound. Check them out in the easy-to-use "wheel."
Executive Director's Update
From the Desk of Gerry O'Keefe
December 22, 2011
Setting Puget Sound Priorities in 2011
Draft Action Agenda released for public comment.
We want to work with you on the Partnership’s main roadmap to recovery in 2011: it is time to update the Puget Sound Action Agenda and its companion, the Biennial Science Work Plan. The Action Agenda – first developed in 2008 – identifies and prioritizes actions and projects needed to support a healthy Puget Sound ecosystem. The update will include recovery targets, bring more focus and refined prioritization to the strategies and actions, incorporate new scientific and technical information, and build further implementation support. An update to the strategies and actions is required in statute and timed to influence the 2013-2015 State Biennium budget process.
Read a summary of all the Targets. >>
Puget Sound Dashboard Indicators
“Dashboard Indicators” launched to measure the health of Puget Sound
The Puget Sound Partnership has identified the key measures of success, or indicators, that our region will be using to determine how well we are performing in our efforts to restore, protect and prevent pollution in Puget Sound. The 20 Dashboard indicators that have been chosen include 12 natural science measures, six social science indicators, and two program elements.
Learn more about the Puget Sound Dashboard Indicators. >>
Partnership News
| Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel focuses on 2012 READ MORE |
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| Public comment period extended on regional plan to help Puget Sound READ MORE |
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State Announces $30 Million in Grants for Salmon Recovery (Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office)
Gov. Chris Gregoire, recognizing the importance of clean water and opportunity to create new jobs, unveiled the Washington Shellfish Initiative, an agreement among federal and state government, tribes, and the shellfish industry to restore and expand Washington’s shellfish resources to promote clean-water commerce and create family wage jobs.
Learn more about the Initiative >>
Gov. Gregoire announces new initiative to create jobs, restore Puget Sound
The Governor asked the Partnership to prepare 5 and 10 percent budget reductions for the 2012 supplemental budget.
READ THE FULL PROPOSAL
Samish Bay Cleanup Gains Added Push
The Puget Sound Partnership today released a 10-point action plan to clean up pollution caused by fecal bacteria in Samish Bay and its tributaries. Efforts will aid the Clean Samish Initiative.
SAMISH BAY CLEANUP PLAN DETAILS
TVW Interview with PSP Executive Director
Announcements
Washington Invasive Species Council 2012 Annual Report
Puget Sound Science Update
The Puget Sound Science Update will be the state-of-the-science document supporting the work of the Puget Sound Partnership to restore and protect the Puget Sound ecosystem.
Low Impact Development / Stormwater
Stormwater and Low Impact Development
in Puget Sound
Puget Sound Partnership 2009-2011 Highlights
The Puget Sound Partnership works with a diverse array of dedicated partners to fulfill actions set forth in the actions in the Action Agenda. This document is a summary of recent progress.
VIEW PSP 2009-2011 PROGRESS (PDF)