
Dear partners,
Our fourth issue of Making Waves focuses on the 2022-2026 Action Agenda, our community’s shared plan to advance Puget Sound recovery over the next four years. It is a bold plan, based on robust science and collaborative problem-solving, that includes strategies and actions to achieve long-term Puget Sound recovery.
This issue includes my conversation with Dennis McLerran, chair of the Puget Sound Partnership’s Leadership Council, about the Action Agenda, new funding for recovery, community involvement with the Action Agenda and its strategies, and our thoughts about the future of recovery in the region.

An introduction to the 2022-2026 Action Agenda
The 2022-2026 Action Agenda is our community’s shared plan to advance Puget Sound recovery over the next four years. With bold leadership and collaboration at all levels, coordinating our efforts, and acting urgently, Puget Sound can be a resilient ecosystem that supports healthy and diverse human communities and the habitats and species that we care about.

Making Waves Conversations: Laura Blackmore and Dennis McLerran discuss the 2022-2026 Action Agenda
This episode of Making Waves Conversations features an interview with Laura Blackmore, executive director of the Puget Sound Partnership, and Dennis McLerran, chair of the Puget Sound Partnership’s Leadership Council. In the interview, Laura and Dennis discuss what they find most exciting about the new Action Agenda and how it will help guide funding for recovery.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: A game-changer for the environment, people, and salmon
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a game-changing boost to Puget Sound. This money will be invested in salmon recovery, transportation infrastructure, roads and bridges, and in helping to make Puget Sound more climate resilient. Watch our video to learn more about the impacts.

Toxics in Aquatic Life, a 2022-2026 Action Agenda Vital Signs target
Toxic chemicals in Puget Sound and the surrounding environment affect aquatic animals throughout the region. These chemicals can affect water quality and degrade habitat.

Ecology’s Toxics Reduction Program sets ambitious targets in the 2022-2026 Action Agenda
An often unacknowledged but surprising aspect of modern life is that toxic chemicals are pretty much everywhere. We encounter them in common consumer products and building materials. Toxic chemicals are also used in manufacturing processes throughout a wide range of industries.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Learn more about the Strategic Initiative Leads’ new 2022 requests for proposals!
Following the release of the 2022-2026 Action Agenda, the Habitat, Shellfish, and Stormwater Strategic Initiative Leads (SILs) have released requests for proposals to solicit programs, activities, and lines of work that protect and restore habitat, water quality, and harvestable shellfish beds.
Puget Sound Recovery Community Spotlight Stories
RESOURCES AND UPDATES FROM AROUND THE PUGET SOUND RECOVERY COMMUNITY
DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA
British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund
Big Bar Landslide Response Update
EPA
LOCAL INTEGRATING ORGANIZATIONS (LIOs)
Local Integrating Organizations overview
San Juan Action Agenda Oversight Group
South Central Action Area Caucus Group
Puyallup-White River Watershed
Alliance for a Healthy South Sound
West Sound Partners for Ecosystem Recovery
Hood Canal Coordinating Council
Strait Ecosystem Recovery Network
NORTHWEST INDIAN FISHERIES COMMISSION
Tribes on the forefront of preparing for climate change
Puyallup Tribe teams with schools to raise, release Chinook
Spawning herring important for marine lifecycle
NORTHWEST STRAITS INITIATIVE
PUGET SOUND ECOSYSTEM MONITORING PROGRAM (PSEMP)
Monitoring to Accelerate Recovery Projects
PUGET SOUND INFO
PUGET SOUND INSTITUTE
RECENT VITAL SIGN UPDATES
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES OF THE PUGET SOUND NATIONAL ESTUARY PROGRAM
Strategic Initiatives of the Puget Sound National Estuary Program
WASHINGTON INVASIVE SPECIES COUNCIL
Washington Invasive Species Council website
How Invasive Species Threaten Salmon
Aquatic invasive species of greatest concern
European Green Crab information
Report an invasive species sighting
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Puget Sound Local Climate Change Needs Analysis Report
Critical areas adaptive management training workshops
Hazard Mitigation Integration Plan Resource Handbook
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY
Reducing nutrients in Puget Sound
Environmental Justice at Ecology
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE
In-season management for “mixed-stock” and “terminal area” salmon fisheries
WDFW launches 10-year strategy for managing recreation on WDFW-managed lands
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Washington Shellfish Safety Map
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
MyCoast App Helps Smart Phone Users Keep Puget Sound Clean
Introducing the Washington 100 — wa100.dnr.wa.gov
WASHINGTON STATE RECREATION AND CONSERVATION OFFICE
Southern Resident Orca Recovery
WASHINGTON STORMWATER CENTER
Tree research – using trees to manage stormwater
Salmon ecotoxicity
(Citation: French, B. L., D. H. Baldwin, J. Cameron, J. Prat, K. King, J. W. Davis, J. K. McIntyre & N. L. Scholz (2022). Urban roadway runoff is lethal to juvenile coho, steelhead, and Chinook salmonids, but not congeneric sockeye. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. In Press. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00467)