Puget Sound Partnership Presentation.pdf · 2017. 8. 18. · Physical Description • 4 river...
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Puget Sound PartnershipBuilding the Action Agenda
Expectations for the Workshop
• Review action area profiles• Understand how current local priorities align with
the Partnership’s strategic priorities• Begin to identify existing barriers to
implementation
Initial Strategic Priorities
• Priority A: Ensure that activities and funding are focused on the most urgent and important problems facing the Sound.
• Priority B: Protect the intact ecosystem processes that sustain Puget Sound.
• Priority C: Restore ecosystem processes that will sustain Puget Sound.
• Priority D: Prevent the sources of water pollution.
Physical Description• 4 river systems, 3 out of 5 largest in Puget Sound
– Skagit, Snohomish, Stillaguamish, Samish• Eelgrass beds, feeder bluffs, and pocket estuaries• Skagit Bay, Saratoga Passage, Port Susan and
Possession Sound changing salinity levels• Whidbey, Camano, Fidalgo, and Guemes Islands• Annual precipitation differences, 20-100 inches of
rain annually
Whidbey Basin Action Area Profile
Land Use, Population, Economy•Projected growth rate 30%•Shifting from resource based economies (forestry, fishing, and agricultural) to housing, light industrial, and technology (aerospace)•Largest agricultural producer in Western Washington•Fishing for salmon, crab, and shellfish•Port activities – major shoreline use (Port of Everett)•Tribal lands: Tulalip, Swinomish, Sauk-Suiattle, Upper Skagit, Stillaguamish, and Snoqualmie•Seven designated wilderness areas
Whidbey Basin Action Area Profile
Unique Ecosystem Characteristics and Assets• Major producer of salmon
• Skagit: 6 populations of Chinook, 26 populations of bull trout• Snohomish: largest producer of coho
• Pocket estuaries support juvenile salmon• Major producer of forage fish • Eelgrass beds – among largest in Puget Sound• Migratory area for marine mammals
• Gray whales feed near Camano and Whidbey Islands• Active shellfish culture: mussels, clams, and oysters• Important bird areas: raptors and marine birds
Whidbey Basin Action Area Profile
Ecosystem Stressors• Loss of fish and wildlife habitat
• Historical extensive drainage and diking transformed deltas to farmland, cutting off tidal marshes and channels to wildlife
• Dams: Baker Lake dam caused loss of 60 miles of Chinook habitat• Loss of forest cover – temperature, sedimentation, stream structure, and flows• Shoreline modifications – railroad, bulkheads limit healthy function
• Water quality impairments• Fecal coliform, dissolved oxygen, ammonia, nutrients• Closed shellfish areas and recreational beaches• Failing on-site septic systems
Whidbey Basin Action Area Profile
Status
• June 24th Technical Workshop• New Version Due August 15th
• Comments due back early September
Whidbey Basin Action Area Characterization
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Initial Strategic Priorities
Priority D: Prevent the sources of water pollution.
• What are you currently doing in support of this priority? What are the top priorities?
• What are the local barriers to achieving the priority?
• What else can you do to help the Partnership achieve this priority? How can the Partnership help you achieve this priority in your action area?
Initial Strategic PrioritiesPriority C: Restore ecosystem processes that will
sustain Puget Sound.
• What are you currently doing in support of this priority? What are the top priorities?
• What are the local barriers to achieving the priority?
• What else can you do to help the Partnership achieve this priority? How can the Partnership help you achieve this priority in your action area?
Initial Strategic PrioritiesPriority B: Protect the intact ecosystem processes
that sustain Puget Sound.
• What are you currently doing in support of this priority? What are the top priorities?
• What are the local barriers to achieving the priority?
• What else can you do to help the Partnership achieve this priority? How can the Partnership help you achieve this priority in your action area?
Initial Strategic PrioritiesPriority A: Ensure that activities and funding are focused
on the most urgent and important problems facing the Sound. (That is: Work more effectively and efficiently on priorities.)
• What are you currently doing in support of this priority? What are the top priorities?
• What are the local barriers to achieving the priority?
• What else can you do to help the Partnership achieve this priority? How can the Partnership help you achieve this priority in your action area?
Next Steps
• Build rationale for how to address problems Continue to define the problems in Puget Sound
• Return to action areas and further discussion with implementers in September
• Incorporate local priorities• Identify necessary actions