April 16, 2008

Puget Partnership Begins Assessing Threats to Sound

By Christopher Dunagan
Kitsap Sun

Puget Sound Partnership has begun to bite into the meaty issues of Puget Sound restoration — and upcoming discussions are focused on what is truly wrong with the ecosystem.

A series of meetings focused on six broad topics — including water quality, species and habitats — begins next week. Scientists, environmental planners and policy leaders are being summoned to help hone "discussion papers," which will form the foundation of an upcoming Puget Sound Action Agenda.

"This is the first time we've tried to do something like this, and it is very hard work," said Martha Neuman, action agenda director for the Puget Sound Partnership. "This series of papers and the workshops are intended to accurately capture the problem as we know it."

The discussion papers are designed to help sort the big problems from the small ones, and the long-term solutions from the short-term ones. In the end, the goal of the partnership is to identify actions that will accomplish the most with the least amount of money...

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To get the Partnership discussion papers, go here.