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On November 8th, Shared Strategy received
the Washington State American Water Resources Association
Chapter’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Washington’s Water Resources.
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Now that the Draft Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan
has been submitted, Shared Strategy participants are working to develop
a strategy for adaptively managing the implementation of the Plan.
As actions called for in the Plan are carried out, we will be asked
the question “are we making progress?” Designing an adaptive
management strategy will allow us to answer this question.
A Steering Committee has formed to guide the effort to create an adaptive
management strategy; it is comprised of people involved in plan implementation
at the watershed scale as well as the regional scale, with expertise
in both technical and policy implications of salmon recovery. The Steering
Committee is currently considering different possibilities for a workshop
to be held in early 2006, and is providing guidance on the development
of a regional adaptive management plan. Their goal is to finalize
the regional Adaptive Management plan in time for NOAA to adopt the Puget
Sound Salmon Recovery Plan next year.
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Link to the KUOW Weekday website to
hear a conversation between Steve Scher and regional
scientists around the question: Will Salmon Survive Climate
Change?
“What happens when the cold water that salmon
need to survive starts heating up? Salmon are already
on the brink in many places due to over-development,
pollution, fishing pressure, dams and water diversions.
Fish are barely able to survive the summer months
in some streams--so minor changes in temperature could
be fatal. Will salmon survive global warning? Can anything
be done to improve their odds?
Guests:
- Mike Mahovlich is fisheries biologist and salmon
team leader for the Muckleshoot tribe.
- Nathan Mantua is a Research Scientist with the
UW Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere
and Ocean.
- David R. Montgomery is Professor of Earth
and Space Sciences at the University of Washington
and the author of King of Fish: The Thousand
Year Run of Salmon.
- Mary Ruckelshaus has worked for NOAA Fisheries
in Seattle since 1997 as a research fisheries
biologist."
Visit: http://www.kuow.org/weekday.asp and
search the “archives” for the 10:00 a.m.
program from Tuesday, November 22, 2005.
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The Future for Farmers and Fish in
the Puget Sound Region is Getting Brighter
The Puget Sound salmon recovery strategy makes supporting farmers a vital element
of the plan to bring salmon back. Farmers, environmentalists, and governments
are working together to assure that actions on private farms and small forests
that improve and protect salmon habitat are encouraged in a way that enhances
the farm’s economic future. At the same time, salmon and other wildlife
will benefit from both continued conservation stewardship on farmlands and avoidance
of fragmented, and increasingly developed watersheds.
Read
the whole story…
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It’s gray and misty as the busses roll up to
the Auburn Narrows restoration site on the banks
of the Green River. Seventy
tenth graders from the Northwest School pile
out bundled up against the cold November morning,
and begin to don work gloves and galoshes. Seven hundred native shrubs
and trees—their
planting goal for the morning—stretch
out before them in pots arranged on swaths of
black fabric staked to the ground.
This morning these student volunteers join the ranks of thousands of
families, community groups, schools, and concerned
citizens from the Green-Duwamish basin and around
the Sound who give a little of their personal time to make our region
better for people, salmon, and all living things.
Read
the whole story…
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One hundred years ago, when Tulalip Indians canoed
the Snohomish River toward a fish hatchery operated by the State of Washington,
they carried wild salmon for a nascent supplementation program. They
also brought with them the origins of today’s forward-thinking
resource management in the basin.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulalip Tribes’ cooperative
salmon enhancement program with the state.
Read
the whole story…
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Please join photographer Natalie
Fobes for an opening reception at Café Paloma, Thursday, December
1st, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Featured are six spectacular images of salmon by Natalie
Fobes, including all five species and each stage of the lifecycle.
Limited-edition prints and boxed note cards featuring
these images are available for purchase at Café Paloma, and www.lltk.org.
Sales will benefit Long Live the Kings, a private
non-profit dedicated to restoring wild salmon
to the waters of the Pacific Northwest. For more information about Natalie
Fobes, please visit www.fobesphoto.com.
For information about Long Live the Kings, or to
order prints and note cards, visit www.lltk.org.
See Natalie Fobes’ exquisite exhibit, enjoy Cafe Paloma, and
consider some holiday shopping to benefit wild
salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest! Download
Reception Invitation here.
Ms. Fobes’ prints will be on display at Café Paloma through
February 1st, 2006.
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We
appreciate your interest in the Shared Strategy
for Puget Sound. 
