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Description:Winner of the Gold Medal in the 2020 Independent Publisher Awards ("IPPY Awards") for "Best Regional Non-Fiction" -- West-Pacific Region.Winner in the national Nautilus Book Awards ("Better Books for a Better World") for 2019. Received the Silver medal for Ecology and Environment.Part of a multi-year, multimedia campaign by the Washington Environmental Council to engage the whole region in saving Puget Sound A rich blend of history, natural history, and an earnest examination of the choices that must be made to protect this precious place on the planet Puget Sound is a magnificent and intricate estuary, the very core of life in Western Washington. Yet it's also a place of broader significance: rivers rush from the Cascade and Olympic mountains and Canada's coastal ranges through varied watersheds to feed the Sound, which forms the southern portion of a complex, international ecosystem known as the Salish Sea.A rich, life-sustaining home shared by two countries, as well as 50-plus Native American Tribes and First Nations, the Salish Sea is also a huge economic engine, with outdoor recreation and commercial shellfish harvesting alone worth $10.2 billion. But this spectacular inland sea is suffering. Pollution and habitat loss, human population growth, ocean acidification, climate change, and toxins from wastewater and storm runoff present formidable challenges.We Are Puget Sound amplifies the voices and ideas behind saving Puget Sound, and it will help engage and inspire citizens around the region to join together to preserve its ecosystem and the livelihoods that depend on it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Are Puget Sound: Discovering and Recovering the Salish Sea. To get started finding We Are Puget Sound: Discovering and Recovering the Salish Sea, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Winner of the Gold Medal in the 2020 Independent Publisher Awards ("IPPY Awards") for "Best Regional Non-Fiction" -- West-Pacific Region.Winner in the national Nautilus Book Awards ("Better Books for a Better World") for 2019. Received the Silver medal for Ecology and Environment.Part of a multi-year, multimedia campaign by the Washington Environmental Council to engage the whole region in saving Puget Sound A rich blend of history, natural history, and an earnest examination of the choices that must be made to protect this precious place on the planet Puget Sound is a magnificent and intricate estuary, the very core of life in Western Washington. Yet it's also a place of broader significance: rivers rush from the Cascade and Olympic mountains and Canada's coastal ranges through varied watersheds to feed the Sound, which forms the southern portion of a complex, international ecosystem known as the Salish Sea.A rich, life-sustaining home shared by two countries, as well as 50-plus Native American Tribes and First Nations, the Salish Sea is also a huge economic engine, with outdoor recreation and commercial shellfish harvesting alone worth $10.2 billion. But this spectacular inland sea is suffering. Pollution and habitat loss, human population growth, ocean acidification, climate change, and toxins from wastewater and storm runoff present formidable challenges.We Are Puget Sound amplifies the voices and ideas behind saving Puget Sound, and it will help engage and inspire citizens around the region to join together to preserve its ecosystem and the livelihoods that depend on it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Are Puget Sound: Discovering and Recovering the Salish Sea. To get started finding We Are Puget Sound: Discovering and Recovering the Salish Sea, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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