Recovery Implementation Technical Team and Technical Recovery Teams:
Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula
There are two active technical recovery teams in the Puget Sound domain: the Puget Sound Steelhead Technical Recovery Team (PSSTRT), and the Puget Sound Recovery Implementation Technical Team (PSRITT). Both teams work in coordination with the Pacific Northwest Recovery Implementation Science Team (RIST). The PSSTRT is tasked with identifying population structure and developing biological viability criteria for Puget Sound steelhead. The PSRITT is providing recovery implementation technical support for Puget Sound Chinook and steelhead, Hood Canal summer chum, and Lake Ozette sockeye. The PSRITT also works closely with the Puget Sound Partnership. The original Puget Sound salmon TRT was formed in April of 2000, and was phased out in early 2008 with the formation of the PSRITT. Documents from all three technical teams are or will be available on this page.
Listed ESUs/DPSs in the Puget Sound Domain
Salmon pictures used in the NMFS Salmon ESA Pages are used with permission from Nature Discovery, Copyright © 1996. Salmon photos are used with permission from E.R. Keeley, © 1998-1999.
Documents
- Ozette sockeye viability. PS TRT draft for public review (pdf)
- Ozette sockeye population identification. PS TRT draft for public review (pdf)
For any accessibility issues with the above documents, please contact Norma Sands. 206-860-5607 - 2006 Ecological Integrity of Chinook Salmon Watersheds in Puget Sound
- Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team (TRT) Review Comments on May 2005 Salmon Recovery Plans
- Draft 2007 Hood Canal summer chum ESU population dentification and viability document
- Independent populations of chinook salmon in Puget Sound. A Puget Sound TRT Final (pdf)
- Watershed assessment guidance document (pdf)
- 2002 Puget Sound chinook population and ESU criteria (pdf)
Meetings
PSSTRT and PSRITT meetings are open to the public; however there will be very limited opportunity for the public to provide feedback during the meetings. For locations and times of meetings, or questions about recovery planning in general, send email to Jeff.Hard@noaa.gov (PSSTRT) or Norma.Sands@noaa.gov (PSRITT).
- The next meeting of the PS RITT will be August 21 from 10am to 3 pm at the King County Natural Resources building at 2nd and Jackson, Conference room 3-d on the third floor.
- The first meeting of the PSS TRT will be March 18, 10am-4pm at Montlake 370W
Meeting Notes
- PSS TRT from June 19th
- PSS TRT from May 28th
- RITT from June 23rd
- PS RITT from May 19
- PSS TRT from March 18th
- PSS TRT from April 28th
- PS RITT from April 25
- PS RITT from March 17th
Archived Puget Sound salmon TRT meeting agendas and notes
Members & Affiliations
Puget Sound Steelhead TRT
George Pess | Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
Bob Hayman | Skagit River System Cooperative |
Jeff Hard | Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
Robert Kope | Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
Ed Connor | Seattle City Light, Environmental Affairs Division |
Anne Marshall | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife |
Jim Myers | Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
Gino Lucchetti | King County Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks |
Brad Thompson | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
Puget Sound Recovery Implementation Technical Team
Eric Beamer | Skagit River System Cooperative |
Phil Roni | Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
Kirk Lakey | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife |
Ken Currens | Northwest Indian Fish Commission |
Kit Rawson | Tulalip Natural Resources |
Mary Ruckelshaus | Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
Norma Sands | Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
William Graeber | Washington Department of Natural Resources, ret. |
Puget Sound salmon TRT (2000-2007)
Ken Currens - Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Jim Doyle - USFS, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Bob Fuerstenburg - King County Department of Natural Resources
Bill Graeber - Washington Department of Natural Resources
Kit Rawson - Tulalip Tribes
Mary Ruckelshaus - NMFS, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Norma Sands - NMFS, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Jim Scott - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
last modified 08/15/2008