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Dec 08, 2025

1997–1999 Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plan

1997–1999 Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plan. Legislation passed in 1996 changed the way the management plan is carried out. The Puget Sound Water Quality Protection Act (Chapter 90.71 RCW) established the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team and directed it to prepare a biennial work plan and budget (in this case, covering the period from July 1, 1997, through June 30, 1999).
By Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team
Dec 08, 2025

1999–2001 Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plan

The 1999-2001 Puget Sound Water Quality Work Plan prepared by the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team coordinates state, federal, tribal and local actions to restore and protect the Sound's resources and water quality.
By Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team
Dec 08, 2025

1992 State of the Sound

The third State of the Sound Report summarizes what is known about Puget Sound, its resources, and trends that threaten it.
By Puget Sound Water Quality Authority
Apr 19, 2012

Utricularia intermedia

Flat-leaved Bladderwort is a perennial aquatic herb with submerged stems, leaves, bladders, overwintering buds, and emergent flowers. The plants have slender stems with numerous, crowded, finely dissected leaves. The leaves are mostly 0.5-2 cm long, flattened, and have several linear divisions all of about the same width and abruptly tapering or blunt at the tip. Bladders, which trap small aquat...
Apr 19, 2012

Wolffia columbiana

Columbia Water-meal, a minute floating aquatic perennial, is among the world's smallest flowering plants. The plant body is rootless and thalloid, with no distinction between stem and leaf. The symmetrical, globular, uniformly green thalli are less than 1.5 mm long, smooth and rounded on the back, and floating just below the surface of the water. The plants rarely flower and for the most pa...
Apr 19, 2012

Dodecatheon austrofrigidum

A perennial herb up to 45 cm tall. Flowers have five lavender to magenta petals, attached to a white corolla tube with a thin, wavy, reddish to purplish line at the base. Stamens are maroon to dark purple and their filaments are not united at the base. Tip of stigma is not enlarged. Fruit is a capsule with an operculum, a cap-like structure that pops off when seeds are ready for dispersal. Leave...
May 08, 2012

Levees and Salmon Habitat

This two-map series illustrates the impact levee vegetation maintenance requirements can have on salmon habitat.
Sep 18, 2012

2011 Puget Sound Marine Waters Overview

The Puget Sound Marine Waters 2011 report is now available. The report was produced by the Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program and assesses the condition and quality of the waters of Puget Sound. 
By Marine Waters Workgroup of the Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program
Jan 02, 2013

Carsey Institute studies on communities and coastal restoration in Puget Sound

In an effort to understand how residents of Puget Sound view social and environmental change in their region, researchers at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collaborated on a public perceptions survey, visualization models, and stakeholder workshops in 2012. The results of their research are available onli...
By Summary description by Encylopedia of Puget Sound
Feb 04, 2013

Salish Sea tribes in Canada

This page includes links to information for First Nations living along the Salish Sea in Canada. First Nations peoples occupied what is now Canada prior to the arrival of Europeans and Americans, and over 50 cultural groups and unique languages are represented across the country. Cowichan Esquimalt Halalt Homalco Klahoose K'omoks Kwiakah ...
By Encyclopedia of Puget Sound