Saving Puget Sound: A Conservation Strategy for
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The Puget Sound region enjoys an unmatched combination of beauty, wealth, natural resiliency, and history of environmental concern. Saving Puget Sound develops a practical proposal to conserve the region’s most important ecosystems in the face of long-term population growth, drawing lessons that are relevant across the Northwest and other parts of the country. It provides both a vision for conservation and a detailed review of the political and legal issues that must be at the core of any practical strategy to achieve it. Published by the American Fisheries Society and the University of Washington Press, Saving Puget Sound is intended for a broad audience, including general readers interested in the future of the Puget Sound region, professionals working on related issues (e.g., land use, water rights, endangered species conservation, environmental law, tribal treaty rights, habitat restoration), and professors and students of environmental policy around the country, for whom the book will serve as an important case study. In March 2008, it was given the Haig-Brown Award for environmental writing by the North Pacific International Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. CLICK HERE if you would like to order the book! Saving Puget Sound is "the most ambitious analysis ever attempted of what we're doing wrong and could do right. [It] includes a comprehensive history and analysis of environmental policy and law across a huge range of complex, knotty, and contentious topics: salmon management, forest management, water rights, treaty rights, and land use planning. The knowledge and work it represents is immense.”—William Dietrich, author of Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants “A refreshing blast of common sense that cuts through the feel good politics and half-measures masquerading as salmon recovery policy.”—David R. Montgomery, author of King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon “Saving Puget Sound does not take a conventionally ‘environmentalist’ approach to conserving our natural heritage. John Lombard obviously cares about our environment, but he also cares about property rights, agriculture, and making sure that rural people get the respect and influence they deserve in a regional conservation strategy. I recommend his book highly.”—Don Stuart, Pacific Northwest Regional Director, American Farmland Trust “John Lombard challenges us to take an honest look at the Sound as a whole. We’ve destroyed it bit by bit, as if one piece had nothing to do with the rest of it. This book helps us see and understand the big picture. I hope it will also inspire action—now.”—Kathy Fletcher, Executive Director, People for Puget Sound “Cleaning up Puget Sound is our generation’s responsibility.
We cannot run from this challenge, we cannot wait for others to
lead the way. We must act now on this challenge. We need critical
thinkers like John Lombard if we are to solve the many layers of
issues we face. I hope people listen very carefully to what John
has to say.”—Ron Sims, King County Executive
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