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 * Puget Sound Partnership publications **
 * ===== [|Puget Sound Vital Signs]- Puget Sound Partnership's documentation on 20 "Dashboard" Indicators to measure the health of Puget Sound. Connect your project to one of these issues. =====
 * ===== [|Highlights of 2012-13 Action Agenda on Puget Sound]- Primary source document that every student should know something about to authentically craft projects relevant to the actual work being done to restore Puget Sound. =====
 * ===== 2-page opening letter “To the People of Puget Sound” This is an usually poetic and passionate piece of writing calling us to action. =====
 * ===== Pages 1-4: A great overview of the Puget Sound Action Agenda, plus some graphs on the economic dimensions of the problem. =====
 * ===== Pages 5-9: Useful background on the structure, purpose and top three priority actions of the Action Plan including a section outlining Tribal Treaty Rights. =====
 * ===== Pages 10-15: First of three strategic goals: **Stormwater.** //(This should be a priority reading. Also, notice how each section has a page that identifies related indicators on the Vital Signs dashboard.)// =====
 * [|Sound Health, Sound Future: Protecting and Restoring Puget Sound:] Puget Sound Partnership's 228 page report on Puget Sound with recommended action. December, 2006. Final report from broadbased commission charged by Governor Gregoire "to develop recommendations for preserving the health and ecosystem of Puget Sound, and to educate and enlist the public in achieving recovery of the Sound by 2020."
 * [|State of Sound, 2007 Update.] Puget Sound Partnership publication.
 * Clean Water Resources **
 * [|Stormwater Library LInks](Sustainability Ambassadors)
 * [|Washington Stormwater Center]
 * [|Water infrastructures, moving toward sustainability]- Environmental Protection Agency sponsored.

> that. The 5-page executive summary provides a good overview and the table of contents will motivate the intellectually curious.
 * Native American Stakeholder articles **
 * [|Northwest salmon, tribal cultures and treaty rights at risk from disappearing habitat]. This is a powerful 2-page OP-ED piece to the Seattle Times from Billy Frank Jr., a Nisqually tribal member and chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, a natural-resources management support-services organization of the 20 treaty Indian tribes in Western Washington. A good overview of the main points outlined in the full policy paper “Treaty Rights at Risk.”
 * [|Treaty Rights at Risk-] [|A REPORT FROM THE TREATY INDIAN TRIBES IN WESTERN WASHINGTON]-Ongoing Habitat Loss, the Decline of the Salmon Resource, and Recommendations for Change. Avery strongly worded policy paper from the tribal point of view. Excerpts selected from this piece would make excellent extension reading assignments for self-selected advanced readers.
 * [|Cleaning of Puget Sound Brings Tribes Full Circle]: Aug. 24, 2009. New Yor Times article on the cleaning up of Puget Sound of old commercial fishing nets and gear.
 * Articles/Special Reports **
 * Third Puget Sound Orca born in two months- Kitsap Sun, Feb. 15, 2015. Article about third orca recently born, bringing Puget Sound orca population up to 80.
 * [|Making a Sound Impact Video Contest Winners]--Features TJ students AJ Tift and Sierra Sarino.
 * [|Cedar River running through Renton] Renton Reporter, Jan. 8, 2009. Impact of rising river and flooding around Renton. Includes list of debris of manmade debris being "carried to Lake Washington". Includes good aerial image of Cedar River running under Renton library.
 * [|Failing Our Sound-Seattle Times Special Report:] Four part series published June, 2008. Offers multiple perspectives on the progress and lack thereof of initiatives to clean the sound and balance economic and environmental factors. Includes video, audio, maps, graphs, charts, etc.
 * [|Federal protection proposed for Puget Sound rockfish-] Seattle Times report; includes link to NOAA page on the Puget Sound rockfish
 * [|Legislation introduced to restore Puget Sound:] Seattle P.I., June 26, 2008. Puget Sound Recovery Act 2008 was introduced in the U.S. House and Senate. The bill would create an EPA office specifically for recovery.
 * [|Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Indicators:] EPA report, the Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Indicators give a glimpse into the environmental conditions of our home, including the interactions between over seven million people and a complex system of water, animals and tiny microorganisms. By 2020, we will add another two million people to the Basin, without a corresponding increase in land and related natural resources
 * [|Puget Sound: One Spill Away from Disaster-]- Seattle Times April 1, 200 Despite spending tens of millions of dollars each year preparing for oil spills and cleaning them up — and despite having some of the nation's toughest oil-spill standards — some experts warn Washington is not as ready for a big accident as we think we are.
 * [|Scientists: Spices impact Puget Sound:] AP, December 26, 2006. UW researcher's weekly tests of treated sewage sent into the sound from a treatment plant in Magnolia showed cinnamon, vanilla and artificial vanilla levels rose between November 14 and December 9.
 * [|Seven orcas, regular visitors to Puget Sound, likely dead:]Seattle Times,October 25, 2008. Disturbing number of missing orca in southern Puget Sound.
 * [|Chinook Salmon-Wildlife Indicator.]
 * [|Valuing the Puget Sound Basin 2010]- For those students curious about how you actually measure the economic value of ecosystem services this is a breakthrough piece of research that does just


 * [|Puget Sound Encyclopedia]** Published by the University of Washington’s [|Puget Sound Institute] and represents the collective knowledge of leading experts from state and federal agencies, academic institutions and Puget Sound area tribes. It is intended as a primary source for synthesized and integrated scientific information about the Puget Sound and Salish Sea watersheds. The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound is aimed primarily at scientists, academics and policymakers. The website also includes content ranging from feature articles, geospatial data, species descriptions, archival documents, blogs and portals to other scientific data.