Saving Puget Sound ― A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century

This volume details ways to conserve ecosystems in the Puget Sound region that are being affected by population growth and climate change. The first section presents a proposal based on the idea that natural features of the landscape should determine where human land uses are concentrated and where natural processes are allowed to operate without intervention. It addresses the legal and programmatic actions to realize this idea, recommendations by regional experts, analysis of environmental laws and institutions, and challenges to regional conservation strategy. The second part covers the relevant laws, including the Endangered Species Act and its application, and those having to do with land use, water quality, and tribal treaty rights. Lombard is a policy analyst at an environmental consulting firm and at a non-profit organization that protects fisheries resources in the Pacific Northwest. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John Lombard is senior policy analyst at Steward and Associates, an environmental consulting firm, and at the Sustainable Fisheries Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection, enhancement, and wise use of fisheries resources in the Pacific Northwest. Previously he was King County coordinator for salmon recovery planning in the Lake Washington watershed.