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"I, Salmon", the keynote presentation by Doug Myers of People For Puget Sound for "Puget Sound Starts Here! The 18th Annual Student GREEN Congress".TRANSCRIPT
J. Kirk Condyle, NRDCs
Long-legged Fly – The preferred prey of juvenile Chinook salmon
Placeholder for hatchery operations series
Shoreline destruction bit by bit
Impervious Surfaces and Polluted Runoff
Photo Credit: Paul Joseph Brown/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Habitat Loss
Tough Issues
• Nobody likes regulations, but voluntary actions aren’t even close to sufficient
• Nobody likes paying taxes or utility rates, but how else do we get public things done?
GAO’s recommendations
• Decision-making body• Hold responsible parties accountable• Link funding to outcomes• Independent, transparent tracking of
results
Schooling Sandlance – The most important forage fish for marine birds in Puget Sound
However, significant problems
are looming in
Puget Sound
Bacterial pollutionfrom failing septic tanks
People For Puget Sound
Mission: to protect and restore Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits--our living waters, the land and our common future.
Kelp greenling and California sea cucumber on rocky reef
Hugh Shipman, Washington Department of Ecology
Shoreline Habitat Destruction from Residential Development
Endangered: Southern Resident Orca Whales
Some 5700 acres of highly sediments in Puget Sound need clean-up.
Legacy Pollutants from past industrial practices
Mohsen Kourehdar, Washington Ecology, photo
Great Blue Heron
Continuing Toxic Discharges from stormwater re-contaminate cleaned up sites
Photo courtesy of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
Opalescent nudibranch in eelgrass bed
Some 5 millions pounds of toxics are released annually to the air in Western Washington.
When it rains, they fall right back into Puget Sound!
NOAA photo library Endangered: Marbled murrelet
Harmful impacts from stormwater runoff:Undersized culverts disrupt fish passage and sediment transport
NOAA photo library Pigeon guillemot
Beggiotoa bacteria mat – an indicator of low dissolved oxygen
Which future will you choose?