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Puget Sound Action Team Partners The Puget Sound Action Team is the state's partnership for Puget Sound. The Action Team Partnership defines, coordinates, and puts into action the state's environmental and sustainability agenda for the Sound. Representatives from the following groups serve on the Action Team: Local Government City of Burien, representing Puget Sound cities Whatcom County, representing Puget Sound counties Washington State Government, directors of the following agencies Community, Trade, and Economic Development Conservation Commission Department of Agriculture Department of Ecology Department of Fish & Wildlife Department of Health Department of Natural Resources Department of Transportation Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation Parks and Recreation Commission February 2004 Tribal Government Tulalip Tribes, representing Puget Sound Tribes Federal Government (Ex-officio) NOAA Fisheries U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (360) 725-5444 (800) 54-SOUND Chair: Director of Puget Sound Action Team www.psat.wa.gov Publication #PSAT04-02 Credits: Mary Knackstedt—research, writing Harriet Beale, Mary Getchell and Toni Droscher— editing Jill Williams—layout, design Cover whale photo courtesy of The Center for Whale Research If you would like copies of this document in an alternative format, please call (800) 54-SOUND or for TDD, call (800) 833-6388. Introduction . .1 Watershed Education and Stewardship Envision the Future, Remember the Past: A Journey Through the Maxwelton Watershed..........4 Exploring the Watershed: Building Community-based Partnerships........................................5 Landowner Education and Involvement ............................................................................6 Puyallup River Watershed Education Program ....................................................................7 Stewardship for the San Juans ........................................................................................8 and Stewardship Watershed Neighbors: Reinventing the Welcome Wagon for Water Quality Education ..............9 Watershed Education Habitat Protection Boeing Creek Education Initiative and Shoreview Park Master Trail Plan ..............................12 Conservation Tools Education Program ............................................................................13 Estuarine Education and Outreach ..................................................................................14 The Journey Home: Exploring Salmon Habitats in Whatcom County ....................................15 Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail ..........................................................................................16 Save Our Stream ..........................................................................................................17 Ship Harbor Interpretive Preserve (SHIP) Wetland Trail......................................................18 Habitat Protection Wetland to Sound Workshops ........................................................................................19 Stormwater Management Reining in the Rain........................................................................................................22 SeaTac Stream Stewards Program ..................................................................................23 Stormwater Outreach to Homeowners and Homeowner Associations ..................................24 Stormwater Stormwater Strategies: Soil Protection and Restoration Training ........................................25 Management Sustainable Choices Commencement Bay Clean Marina and Boating Program....................................................28 Cranberry Lake Demonstration Project ............................................................................29 Fish-friendly Construction Workshops ..............................................................................30 Horses for Clean Water..................................................................................................31 King County On-Site Sewage System Workshops ..............................................................32 Living Green in the Piper’s Creek Watershed ....................................................................33 Living With the Coast Workshops ....................................................................................34 Salmon-friendly Lawn Signs ..........................................................................................35 Septic System Public Service Announcements ..................................................................36 Sound Boater Program ..................................................................................................37 Sustainable Choices Stewards of Puget Sound ..............................................................................................38 Streamside Livin’ Guidebook ..........................................................................................39 Vashon Living ..............................................................................................................40 Watershed Education Project ..........................................................................................41 Monitoring and Restoration Dungeness Bay Watchers ..............................................................................................44 Expanding Volunteer Stewardship and Citizen Monitoring in Puget Sound ............................45 Froggy Bottoms Wetland Restoration and Public Education ................................................46 Guidelines for Involving the Disabled Community in Urban Riparian Restoration....................47 Manzanita Bay Watershed Restoration Project ..................................................................48 Menzies Research Cruises ..............................................................................................49 Puget Sound 2100 ........................................................................................................50 Replanting Riparian Areas ..............................................................................................51 Restoration Radio..........................................................................................................52 Salmon Habitat Restoration Citizens’ Action Project ..........................................................53 Shoreline Preservation Project ........................................................................................54 Monitoring and Restoration Spawning Gravel Monitoring Project ................................................................................55 Whale-Sighting Network and Education Program ..............................................................56 Youth Education Application of a Shellfish Science Club Model....................................................................58 Asian Pacific Islander Youth’s Shellfish Harvesting Outreach Project ....................................59 EnviroChallenger ..........................................................................................................60 Expedition Mee Kwa Mooks ............................................................................................61 Knowledge and Restoration ............................................................................................62 Seabeck Alki Salmon Team ............................................................................................63 South Sound GREEN: Salmon Come Home ......................................................................64 Student Environmental Enhancement Project....................................................................65 Youth Education Swan Creek Watershed Citizen/Youth Partnership Project ..................................................66 Taylor Creek Watershed Internship Project ......................................................................67 WaterWeb Intertidal Studies and Monitoring Project ..........................................................68 Watershed Education and Restoration Program ................................................................69 1 Introduction Introduction undreds of thousands, if not a million people who Hlive and work in Puget Sound have enjoyed a piece of PIE through the Puget Sound Action Team’s Public Involvement and Education program. They’ve participated in hands-on actions to keep horses and cows out of streams, helped school children plant trees and shrubs to restore salmon habitat, and monitored the movements of orcas in Puget Sound. All these activities were made possible with PIE. In 1987, the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority launched the Public Involvement and Education program to protect Puget Sound by funding projects that help fulfill the Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plan. Since that time, the Authority, and its successor, the Puget Sound Action Team, have provided almost $6 million for Middle school students learn about Puget Sound more than 300 projects located in every county in Puget marine life aboard a research vessel while Sound. Most of that money has gone directly to participating in the Port Townsend's Marine communities, because at the heart of PIE is the belief Science Center's Menzies project, see page 48. that support for local education is the best investment the State can make for Puget Sound. While appreciating the value of community-based The purpose of PIE Success Stories is to create a education, PIE also recognizes that Puget