Concerned people talk about threats to Puget Sound
December 5th, 2008 by cdunaganThose who attended Puget Sound Partnership’s “celebration” on Monday were treated to a video featuring experts, policy folks and other concerned people describing the values of Puget Sound and its various threats. It included some impressive footage of the waterway and its environs.
This afternoon, the video was posted on the Puget Sound Partnership’s Web site.
Featured are folks including Kari Koski of The Whale Museum, Mike Racine of Washington Scuba Alliance, Mary Ruckelshaus of NOAA Fisheries, Dave Herrera of the Skokomish Tribe, Bill Dewey of Taylor Shellfish Farms, Steve Bauer, a Kitsap County commissioner, and Steve Sakuma, a Skagit Valley farmer.
Some of these people are directly involved in the Partnership process. For example, Sakuma is a member of the Leadership Council; Bauer is a member of the Ecosystem Coordination Board; and Ruckelshaus is a member of the Science Panel.
Monday’s celebration called attention to the release of the Puget Sound Action Agenda, a blueprint for restoring Puget Sound to health.
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December 6th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Beautiful, well done tape.
Sorry for another reference to lung disease…but lung patients can’t breathe in polluted air…how is it that the groups collecting donations to bring a healthy whale back into polluted Puget Sound isn’t concerned with the polluted waterways … only concern seems to be the fish the whale would eat?
How can it be that the polluted WATER itself isn’t harmful to whales or all creatures trying to live here?
How about another tape – this time stating the facts of life for those sea creatures living in these polluted waters?
Would whales remain nontoxic if they were fed healthy, unpolluted fish while living in polluted waters…as at least one whale organization seems to think?
Sharon O’Hara