• Maps
• Fact Sheets, Handouts & Reports
• Technical Guidance Documents
• Policy & Technical Feedback on Watershed Documents
• Water Quantity
• Funding Opportunities
• Links to Additional ESA and Salmon Recovery Web Sites

Maps

The following maps are available in two formats: JPG for on-screen viewing and PDF for printing.

You may order poster-size maps of your watershed basin for $30.00 per map. Contact: CommEn Space, 1305 4th Ave, Suite 1000, Seattle, WA 98101, 206-749-0112 (ph/fax), info@commenspace.org.

• Puget Sound Watershed:  JPG | PDF
• Salmon Recovery Planning Areas:  JPG | PDF
• Puget Sound Chinook Populations Grouped by Geographic Regions of Diversity and Risk:  JPG | PDF
• Preliminary Bull Trout Core Populations:  JPG | PDF
• Independent Chinook Populations:  JPG | PDF
• Hood Canal Summer Chum Populations:  JPG | PDF
• Hatchery Locations in the Shared Strategy Planning Area:  JPG | PDF
• Predicted Population Growth by County:  JPG | PDF
• Major Estuaries in the Puget Sound, Bathymetry/Topography in the Puget Trough:  JPG | PDF
• Relative Modification of Shoreline in Salmon Recovery Planning Areas:  JPG | PDF

Individual Watershed Basin Maps

• Duwamish / Green: JPG | PDF
• East Kitsap: JPG | PDF
• Hood Canal: JPG | PDF
• Island: JPG | PDF
• Lake Washington - Cedar / Sammamish: JPG | PDF
• Nisqually River: JPG | PDF
• North Olympic: JPG | PDF
• Nooksack River: JPG | PDF
• Puyallup - White and Chambers Clover: JPG | PDF
• San Juan Islands: JPG | PDF
• Skagit River: JPG | PDF
• Snohomish River: JPG | PDF
• South Sound: JPG | PDF
• Stillaguamish River: JPG | PDF

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Fact Sheets, Handouts & Reports

Shared Strategy

• An Introduction to the Shared Strategy
• Who's Who in the Shared Strategy
• Shared Strategy for Puget Sound: Organization & Process Chart
• Salmon Recovery in Washington State (one pager)
• Salmon Recovery in Washington State (two pager)
• How is Recovery Planning Structured in the Puget Sound?
• Recovering Puget Sound Salmon—Democracy in Action (Draft for discussion). October 13, 2005. Shared Strategy for Puget Sound
• Examples of Key Habitat Restoration Projects:
  Part 1 (Map examples, 4.4 MB)
  Part 2 (Project description, 1.9 MB)

Agriculture

• Characterization of Puget Sound Agriculture, Part 1. March 2004. Evergreen Funding Consultants
• Agriculture in the Watersheds, Part 2. Evergreen Funding Consultants

Other Reports & Memos

• Staff Memorandum to the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Council. September 11, 2006. Synopsis and Preliminary Analysis of Initiative 933
• Regional Environmental Initiatives in the United States: A Report to the Puget Sound, Shared Strategy. July 2005, Evergreen Funding Consultants
• Primer on Habitat Project Costs, Spring 2003. Evergreen Funding Consultants

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Technical Guidance Documents

Chinook

• Chinook Planning Ranges and Targets – Shared Strategy: A 5-step voluntary & collaborative process to develop a recovery plan for salmon in Puget Sound
• Integrated Recovery Planning for Listed Salmon: Technical Guidance for Watershed Groups in Puget Sound, Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team and Shared Strategy Staff Group, February 3, 2003
• Planning Ranges and Preliminary Guidelines for the Delisting and Recovery of the Puget Sound Chinook Salmon Evolutionarily Significant Unit, Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team, April 30, 2002
• Summarizing Population Status: Metrics for Diversity, Puget Sound Technical Review Team
• Summarizing Population Status: Metrics for Spatial Structure, Puget Sound Technical Review Team

Bull Trout

• Draft Recovery Plan for the Coastal-Puget Sound Distinct Population Segment of Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentus) Volume I (of II) Puget Sound
• Draft Recovery Plan for the Coastal-Puget Sound Distinct Population Segment of Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentus) Volume II (of II) Olympic Peninsula Management Unit, Region 1, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, May 2004
• Draft Interim Guidance for Protecting and Restoring Bull Trout Habitat in Watershed-based Recovery Planning in the Coastal-Puget Sound Distinct Population Segment, Puget Sound Bull Trout Recovery Unit Team, November 27, 2002

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Policy & Technical Feedback on Watershed Documents

2004 Draft Watershed Recovery Plan Policy Feedback Summaries

• East Kitsap
• Elwha-Dungeness
• Green/Duwamish
• Hood Canal–Chinook
• Hood Canal–Chum
• Whidbey and Camano Islands
• Lake Washington/Cedar Sammamish
• Nisqually
• Nooksack
• Puyallup/White and Clover/Chambers
• San Juan Islands
• Snohomish
• South Sound
• Stillaguamish

2004 Draft Watershed Recovery Plan Technical Feedback Summaries

The Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team (TRT) reviewed 14 individual draft watershed salmon recovery plans in 2004 to provide early technical feedback on the plan development and to support an iterative review process. The following document list contains the TRT’s 2004 reviews for each of the draft watershed plans. 

• Dungeness
• East Kitsap
• Elwha
• Green/Duwamish
• Hood Canal–Chinook
• Whidbey and Camano Islands
• Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish
• Nisqually
• Nooksack
• Puyallup/White
• San Juan Islands
• Snohomish
• South Sound
• Stillaguamish

2005 Draft Watershed Recovery Plan Technical Feedback

The Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team (TRT) reviewed 14 individual watershed salmon recovery plans and the regional nearshore plan in 2005 to summarize what elements in the plans were well described and where significant technical uncertainties in the plans’ strategies or actions still remain. The following document contains the TRT’s 2005 technical feedback for each watershed chapter as well as the regional nearshore plan chapter.

• Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team (TRT) Review Comments on May 2005 Salmon Recovery Plans. November 2005

2006 Three Year Work Program Review Feedback

In April 2006, watersheds submitted three-year work programs that would enable them to get on a recovery trajectory in the first three years of implementation. The work programs were reviewed by the Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team (TRT and the Shared Strategy Interdisciplinary Policy team). This section contains technical and policy feedback to the watersheds.

• Elwha-Dungeness
• East Kitsap
• Green/Duwamish
• Hood Canal
• Lake Washington/Cedar Sammamish
• Nisqually
• Puyallup/White and Clover/Chambers
• South Sound

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Water Quantity

• Exhibit A: Pilot Project Scope of Work for Stillaguamish River, Stillaguamish Flow Assessment Team (SFAT), January 25, 2005
• Exhibit A: Pilot Project Scope of Work for Stillaguamish River, Stillaguamish Flow Assessment Team (SFAT), December 23, 2004
• Instream Flow Assessment Protocol Identification and Funding of Pilot Projects, Request for Qualifications, November 12, 2004
• Instream Flow Assessment Protocol Identification and Funding of Pilot Projects Request for Qualifications. October 10, 2004.
   
• Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (NHC). 2005. Final Report–Instream Flow Assessment Pilot Project.
  • Download PDF 1:
    • Cover page–page iv, Credits and Acknowledgments, Introduction
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    • Section 1: Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Human Actions Affecting Flow Regime
    • Section 2: Review of Hypothesized Flow Change Mechanisms that Affect Salmon Populations in Church Creek and Pilchuck Basins
    • Section 3: Hydrologic Modeling, Flow Parameter Extraction, and Analysis
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    • Section 4: Linkage of Hydrologic Modeling Results to Salmon Population and Habitat Quality Models
    • Section 5: Ecosystem Modeling
    • Section 6: Management Implications of Flow-Related Salmonid Impacts Analysis
       
• Final Report – Instream Flow Assessment Project. 2005. Errata, Department of Ecology Water Resources Program
   
• Hartley, David. November 9, 2005. Urbanization, Flow Regime, and Salmon Populations in the Puget Sound Basin. Abstract and Presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Water Resources Association, Seattle, Washington.
   
• Booth, Derek B., Paul McElhany, and William J. Trush. November 19, 2005. Peer Review of Final Report - Instream Flow Assessment Pilot Project.
   
• Blair, Greg, Larry Lestelle, Kevin Malone, Chip McConnaha, and Lars Mobrand. December 7, 2005. Comments on the Peer Review  of Final Report - Instream Flow Assessment Pilot Project (draft  September 9, 2005).
   
• Booth, Derek B., Paul McElhany, and William J. Trush. January 3, 2006. Response to Blair et al., Comments on the Peer Review of Final Report.
   
• Stillaguamish Flow Assessment Team. January 5, 2006. Follow-up to Peer-Review Comments on the Stillaguamish Instream Flow Assessment Pilot Project Report. (Project Team Members: David Hartley, Derek Stuart, Bill Rozeboom—Northwest Hydraulic Consultants; Michael Purser—Snohomish County Surface Water Management; Jody Brown—Stillaguamish Tribe Natural Resources; Joel Massmann–Keta Waters)

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Funding Opportunities

• Top Government Grant Programs for Salmon Projects
• NFWF Community Salmon Fund Grants
• The American Rivers-NOAA Community-Based Restoration Program

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Links to Additional ESA and Salmon Recovery Web Sites

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