Puget Sound PartnershipAction Agenda: Roadmap to Completion

Action Agenda Questions

1. What is the current status of Puget Sound? What are the biggest threats to it?

2. What is a healthy Puget Sound?

3. What actions must we take to move from where we are today towards a healthy Puget Sound?

4. Where should we start?

What is the status of Puget Sound? What are the biggest threats to it?

• Synthesis of existing sound-wide work• Action areas review and add local perspective• Iterative

What is a healthy Puget Sound?

• Legislative definition • Indicators of what we need to measure to show

ecosystem health – humans, natural system

• Quantification of indicators – “How much”– Policy-related benchmarks of “how much” as a target

towards ultimate “how much”

What actions do we need to take to move from where we are today towards a healthy Puget Sound?

• Build on existing work and current actions– Ecosystem wide perspective– Local/action area perspective

1. Inventory roles, responsibilities, and analyze what we do now (at a high level)

2. Compare status and threats with current efforts to identify work to continue, add, or realign

Inventory Work • Inventory - all implementers (agency, private sector interests, non-

governmental organizations)• Purpose:

– Baseline to discuss what work should continue, be added, be aligned

– Opportunity to highlight current good work– Program funding information help inform costs need– Tool for all to get a handle on what is happening in a geographic

area on a certain topic• Program level• Due February 29• Review - Action area workshops, Ecosystem Coordination Board

Synthesize in Topic Forums Role: Synthesize and build on prior work, vet and validate,

input on big topics and across topics (knit together)• Human health and well-being• Species/food-web/biodiversity• Water quality (toxics, nutrients, pathogens, stormwater - linked to habitat,

water quantity)• Water quantity (instream, non-instream)• Land use/habitat (protection, restoration)

• Other topic forum/work groups– Monitoring and Adaptive Management– Accountability linked to monitoring– Funding Strategy– Climate change (synthesis to inform Topic Forums)– Education (synthesis summary, prioritization based on Action Agenda direction )– Research and modeling needs (synthesis summary, prioritization based on

Action Agenda direction)

Topic Forums• Potential Key Tasks

1. Describe and document current status (what do we know, biggest issues, what is happening now)

2. Compare current status of what we do with ecosystem status and threats

3. Describe what it will take to address the issues (continue, add, realign)

4. Prioritization criteria

Topic Forum Structure

• Small core synthesis working group: organize existing information

• Large group of interests and experts: review, validate, additional input on synthesized work

Focused workshops

• Science questions and policy questions - not necessarily the same people– Ecosystem Coordination Board review/discuss– Science Panel review/discuss

• Defined products to forward action agenda discussion – Ecosystem wide– Action areas review, add local perspective, refine

Where should we start?

1. Input and advise on criteria and actions:– Topic Forums– Action areas– Ecosystem Coordination Board

2. Leadership Council “point of view”

Action Areas

• Focused workshop series– Similar across region, tailored

• Pull people, interests together• Review, add local perspective

– Status and threats, indicators, key topics, local priorities

• Team: Leadership Council, Ecosystem Coordination Board, Partnership staff

Action Agenda management: Next steps

• Collecting inventory forms• Building database• Guidance and support to action area teams for Leadership Council,

Ecosystem Board member, and liaison staff• Communications and outreach working group meeting:

early February• Action area workshop planning: dates, purpose through Sept• Topic forum chartering• Web content development• Leadership Council, Ecosystem Coordination Board, Science Panel

meeting agenda topics focused on decision-making for action agenda

Upcoming workshops

• Scientific peer review of status and threats in mid-February

• Topic forums begin – Synthesize what we know: Problems, solutions

and programs• Action area workshops in late February

– Status and threats: Review, add local perspective– Are all of the current efforts represented?– What criteria should be used to establish

priorities?

Infrastructure• Action Agenda strategic management team

– Partnership staff– Key loaned staff– Consultant team

• Outreach lead: EnviroIssues• Analytic and management lead: ESA Adolfson• Writing lead: Ann Seiter• Topic forum leads

• Comprehensive database to catalog inventories, track contacts and comments

• Sharepoint site for internal team communication• Public calendar• Action Agenda Center on Partnership website