Web Sightings - ESA/Salmon Issue

State Information:

The Governors Salmon Recovery Office has had a recent face-lift and has been greatly enhanced. Here you will find the state's draft strategy plan, Extinction Is Not an Option - A Statewide Strategy to Recover Salmon, and information on funding, legislation, and who is on the Salmon Team.
The Department of Ecology has several sites relating to the ESA issue: Shorelands & Wetlands, Watershed Planning and Water Resources.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife's Land and Habitat section contains the priority habitat documents as well as information on habitat restoration grants.
The Department of Transportation's TransAid's Environmental Sectionand Environmental Affairs Office are adding ESA information to their sites relating to affected public works and transportation projects.

Local Information:

See King County's Endangered Species Act: Salmon Conservation and Recovery and Snohomish County's Restoring Wild Salmon.
King County set up a Tri-County Salmon Information Center with the objective "to help everyone in the Puget Sound Region find answers to their questions, whether their concern is how the ESA listings could affect them, how they can help recover the salmon, or anything else about salmon."
Four local governments have posted copies of "early action plans" that were filed with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS): Pierce County's Endangered Species Response, Seattle's Early Action Proposal, Snohomish County's ESA Salmon Conservation Early Action program and Bellevue's Proposed Early Action Plan to Save Salmon. Whatcom County has published its Comprehensive Water Resources Plan that contains information about salmon restoration.