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Puget Sound needs our help. Governor Chris Gregoire and the Legislature have made it a state priority to engage citizens, community organizations, Tribes and government at every level in restoring Puget Sound and Hood Canal to a healthy condition by 2020. Ecology is an important partner in this effort, and it is one the agency's five strategic priorities.

SAVING THE SOUND

Overview | Threats to Puget Sound | What We've Accomplished | What You Can Do

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PUGET SOUND

Reports on the Health of the Sound | Monitoring the Sound | Economic fact sheet (pdf) | Washington Coastal Atlas

WHAT WE'RE DOING TO PROTECT THE SOUND

Issue Up Close: Protecting and Restoring a National Treasure | Puget Sound Initiative (PSI) Site Cleanups | Puget Sound Marine Conservation Fund Projects | 2005-2007 Puget Sound Investment Atlas | Control of Toxic Chemicals in Puget Sound

GOVERNOR GREGOIRE'S PUGET SOUND INITIATIVE

2007-2009 Action Agenda to Protect Puget Sound | Puget Sound Policy Brief (pdf) | Proposed 2007-2009 investments for Hood Canal and Strait of Juan de Fuca (pdf)

PARTNERS

Puget Sound Partnership | WA Dept. of Health | WA Parks and Recreation Commission | WA Dept. of Agriculture | WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife | WA Dept. of Natural Resources | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | U.S. Coast Guard | Northwest Indian Fishing Commission

ADDITIONAL HEALTH RESOURCES

Puget Sound Fish Consumption Advisory Areas | Fish Facts for Healthy Nutrition | Puget Sound Fish Consumption Advice factsheet (pdf) | What Washington State is Doing to Reduce Contaminants

2008 PUGET SOUND ACTION AGENDA

Puget Sound Partnership has adopted its Action Agenda, to clean up Puget Sound by 2020

Updated! - 11/06/08 CONTROL OF TOXIC CHEMICALS STUDY

A three-phased study to understand sources of contaminants in the Puget Sound ecosystem

PUGET SOUND
WATER QUALITY

Including the Dissolved Oxygen Study

WASHINGTON WATERS - OURS TO PROTECT

Clean water campaign to help people change behaviors that pollute Washington's lakes, rivers, wetlands and marine waters.

PUGET SOUND CLEANUP SITES

Puget Sound Initiative (PSI) priority bays and other major cleanup locations

VIDEO: SHIFTING BASELINES

Puget Sound Partnership video of the history of Puget Sound

WASHINGTON COASTAL ATLAS

View aerial shoreline photos, locate different habitat types and physical features, and much more.

IN THE NEWS:

Good, bad news for ongoing Puget Sound cleanup efforts NEW! - 12/23/08 - Dec. 23rd article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Army divers clean up underwater junkyard - News and video clip of August 19th cleanup event

Charting a new course toward a healthy Puget Sound - Ecology director Jay Manning's guest editorial in the Seattle Times

Each river and bay is worth the fight to protect it - Guest opinion in the Journal of the San Juans, by Billy Frank, Jr.

Saving Puget Sound series in The Olympian

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