Puget Sound
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Summary Information
| Year Established: |
1987 |
| Location: |
Washington |
| Area of Watershed: |
42,791 square kilometers |
Priority
Management
Issues: |
toxics
conventional pollutants
pathogens
human population growth
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habitat loss/alteration
introduced/pest species
sedimentation
oil spills
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Major
Habitat
Types: |
submerged aquatic vegetation (sea grass and kelp)
lagoon/shallow open water
rocky intertidal/subtidal
shellfish growing areas
cliffs/bluffs
sand/mud/salt flats
tidal pools
salt/brackish marsh
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freshwater marsh (tidal and non-tidal)
forested wetland
seasonal wetland
freshwater lakes/ponds
scrub/shrub
non-wetland forest
riparien-riverine (forested, tidal, and floodplain)
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| Federally Endangered or Threatened Species: |
mammals:
Columbia white-tailed deer
gray wolf
grizzly bear
birds:
Aleutian Canada goose
bald eagle
brown pelican
marbled murrelet
northern spotted owl
peregrine falcon
western snowy plover
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reptiles:
green sea turtle
leatherback sea turtle
loggerhead sea turtle
olive ridley sea turtle
insects:
Oregon silverspot butterfly
plants:
golden paintbrush
marsh sandwort
Nelson's checker-mallow
water howellia
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Overviews and Highlights
Puget Sound was one of the first estuaries to join the Natinal Estuary Program (NEP). Protection of the Sound's water quality and habitat for living resources is driven by two-year work plans, which are based on the Comprehensive Conservation and Manage
ment Plan for the Sound. Work plans also recognize other state and local water-quality and resource protection programs, with the goals of coordinating programs better and reducing duplication. Efforts to protect water quality are enhanced by providing
regional technical assistance to help local governments implement the work plans.
Priorities for the 1997-99 work plans are:
- fixing and preventing on-site sewage system problems
- protecting and restoring shellfish beds
- reducing non-point pollution
- improving habitat
- protecting the shared waters of Puget Sound in Washington and the Georgia Basin in British Columbia
- education
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Maps
Select a map.
 Local Maps
Puget Sound Study Area
(area where the program is concentrating its efforts)
Puget Sound Watershed
(estuarine and fluvial drainage areas for the estuary)
Regional Maps- West Coast
Locations of Estuaries in the NEP
Watersheds of Estuaries in the NEP
Study Areas of Estuaries in the NEP
National Maps
Locations of Estuaries in the NEP
Watersheds of Estuaries in the NEP
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