STORIES FROM THE PEOPLE PROTECTING AND RECOVERING PUGET SOUND

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  • Arts and Communities

From Forest to Furnace: Dan Friday Continues Tradition in Glass

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  • Policy

Approaching the Funding Cliff: What Happens When BIL Expires?

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  • Arts and Communities

Nora Nickum’s New Children’s Book, Twelve Daring Grays

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  • Arts and Communities

Community Highlight: Serve Ethiopians Washington

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  • Accomplishments

Shore Friendly is sending ripples throughout the region

Three people on a ship surveying the waters with bags of oyster shells.
  • Accomplishments

Northwest Straits 2023 Impact Report drops with a splash

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  • Policy

Sound Safe Infrastructure: Building a future with resilient infrastructure and ecosystems

A family working together to plan an evergreen sapling at Lake Sammamish State Park.
  • Policy

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act provide transformational funding to support Puget Sound recovery priorities

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  • Policy

Navigating the depths: The Cetacean Desk’s marine mission for the Southern Resident killer whales.

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  • Policy

Resilient floodplains for people and salmon

Aerial photo of the Dickman Mill site in Tacoma, WA. The photo shows the group of creosote-soaked pilings in the water near the site, and a boat floating in the water off to the righthand side of the photo.
  • Accomplishments

Doubling down on restoration: How the Salish Sea Nearshore Programmatic and the Partnership’s Nearshore Credits Program drive restoration throughout Puget Sound

Photo of two people walking along the paved path that leads from Point Defiance Park down to Point Ruston. Mount Rainier is in the background.
  • Accomplishments

Point Ruston’s transformation from polluted smelter site to waterfront destination

Photo of Casey Sixkiller, at left, administrator for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency region 10, and Kadi Bizyayeva, council member and fisheries manager for the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians.
  • Policy

Puget Sound Day on the Sound

Photo of two kayakers paddling in Commencement Bay, near Tacoma. There's a pier on the right-hand side of the photo, and Brown's Point is in the distance.
  • Sound Science

2023 Science Panel comments on science and policy

Headshot photo of Nora Nickum, senior ocean policy manager at the Seattle Aquarium and author of books and magazine articles for kids.
  • Arts and Communities

Making Waves Conversations: Nora Nickum on her new book, “Superpod: Saving the Endangered Orcas of the Pacific Northwest”

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  • Accomplishments

Puget Sound Geographic Program funds at work

Young coho salmon swimming in a river, with rocks lining the bottom of the riverbed.
  • Sound Science

Clearing the road for salmon recovery: 6PPD-quinone and mitigation solutions

Photo of an overpass above the Cedar River, showing the underside of the overpass and the flow of the Cedar River.
  • Accomplishments

Preventing stormwater pollution protects what we care about

Aerial photo of Samish Bay shellfish beds, showing horizontal and diagonal lines of shellfish growing areas in Puget Sound water, with Samish Island in the background. One of the areas focused on protecting and restoring shellfish.
  • Accomplishments

Protecting and restoring shellfish beds throughout Puget Sound

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  • Accomplishments

Puget Sound habitat restoration efforts to receive $14 million boost

Still image screenshot from the video about the Puget Sound Aquisition and Restoration program, showing Dave Herrera, member of the Skokomish Indian Tribe, policy director for the Skokomish Department of Natural Resources, and co-vice chair of the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Council and Puget Sound Partnership Ecosystem Coordination Board, walking near the Skokomish River, with the title of the video overlaid in white lettering, "Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration Fund: restoring habitat critical to the recovery of Puget Sound salmon and building community."
  • Accomplishments

Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration Fund: Restoring habitat critical to the recovery of Puget Sound salmon