NEW: Draft Monitoring and Adaptive Management Approach (MAMA) for the Puget Sound Chinook Salmon Recovery Plan: The Shared Strategy for Puget Sound is accepting comments on the new draft until November 16, 2007. Send comments to Millie Judge, Associate Director.

This Draft Plan consists of three volumes:

• Volume I - Introduction to the overall Monitoring and Adaptive Management Approach (MAMA), the governance structure for making adaptive management decisions, and the framework and benchmarks for assessing our progress toward our recovery goals.
• Volume II - The Monitoring Programs that support the MAMA framework (implementation monitoring, status/trends monitoring, and effectiveness monitoring) through which we will collect information and data to inform us about our progress toward the benchmarks.
• Volume III - Appendices to Volumes I and II.