Human Wellbeing and Monitoring at Puget Sound Partnership

Monitoring allows the Puget Sound recovery community, partners, and the public to track the status and trends of ecosystem recovery. Knowing the status and trends of Human Wellbeing helps communities and ecosystem recovery planners highlight needs and prioritize areas of recovery work.

We check Human Wellbeing through our Vital Signs and provide the Human Wellbeing status and trends in the Puget Sound Info interactive website and State of the Sound report.

Monitoring can find communities or cultural practices that are most affected by the health of their natural environment.

Human Wellbeing Vital Signs

The Puget Sound Vital Signs are the building blocks of the Puget Sound Recovery Goals for ecosystem health. There are 23 total Vital Signs and ten of those measure the two Human Wellbeing recovery goals:

• Air Quality
• Drinking Water
• Local Foods
• Outdoor Activity
• Shellfish Beds
• Cultural Wellbeing
• Economic Vitality
• Good Governance
• Sense of Place
• Sound Stewardship

All Vital Sign trends can be found on Puget Sound Info. You can also learn more about our Human Wellbeing Vital Signs in the links below:

• Human Wellbeing Vital Signs factsheet
• Human Wellbeing Vital Signs and indicators for Puget Sound Recovery Technical Memorandum.

Six Human Wellbeing Vital Signs are measured in a survey sent to Puget Sound residents. You can find the latest findings in the Human Wellbeing Vital Sign Survey 2022 Summary.

The other four Human Wellbeing Vital Signs are monitored by other state agencies and Tribal Governments.

State of the Sound

The State of the Sound provides an update on the Puget Sound ecosystem recovery effort. It includes ecosystem health and progress toward recovery goals, and the role each recovery partner plays. The report includes a review of the two Human Wellbeing Recovery Goals.

Last updated: 12/6/24