South Sound Strategy

The South Sound Strategy (Strategy) was developed between late 2015 and fall 2016 by the Alliance for a Healthy South Sound, through funding from the Puget Sound Partnership
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Purpose

The Strategy is intended to guide decision-making about ecosystem restoration and recovery in South Puget Sound by compiling:

  • High-quality data on key South Sound ecosystem focus areas
  • Science-based priorities for what work to do where
  • Basic conceptual models that demonstrate why and how working on key South Sound focus areas will contribute to Puget Sound recovery

Future updates will refine the South Sound targets and develop interim targets and workplans around priority areas.

Mapping

A key element of the South Sound Strategy is a GIS mapping tool that allows users to see ecosystem attributes overlaid with priorities for protection, restoration, and juvenile salmon. Click on the boxes below to access maps for the nearshore and uplands. Click here to access the user guide (opens in PDF).

Nearshore / Marine Mapping Tool
Upland / Terrestrial Mapping Tool

Strategy Organization

The Strategy is organized around six ecosystem focus areas. You can navigate to individual page descriptions of these focus areas by clicking on the icons below. To download the entire Strategy in PDF, click here.

Prairie and Oak Woodlands
Forests and Freshwater Habitat
Marine Nearshore Habitat
Water Quality
Shellfish
Salmon
Download the Entire Strategy Here

Results Chains and Conceptual Models

“Early Elements” workplan. AHSS submitted this document to PSP in early October 2015. The primary element of the document is a narrative describing the selected Vital Signs and recovery targets, with the rationale for focus area selection and descriptions of priority ecosystem pressures, including the process and information used to make these decisions. The narrative describes the AHSS results chains and where AHSS’s strategic approaches and the results chains align (and where they do not). Finally, the narrative describes AHSS’s focus for the 2016-2017 Action Agenda, including new or continuing NTAs.