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 ARE PUGET SOUND is the 2020 winner of the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards ("IPPY Awards") for "Best Regional Non-Fiction" in the West-Pacific region of North America.---WE ARE PUGET SOUND is the winner of the NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD ("Better Books for a Better World"), receiving the Silver medal for Ecology and Environment. Copy and paste this link: bit.ly/2yQnrY8 Nautilus Book Awards / April 2020 --- Seattle Public Library selected We Are Puget Sound as a 'Peak Pick' for Fall 2019, making copies available for in-person checkout on a first-come, first-served basis at all of its library locations.---The Seattle Times dedicated much of its Pacific NW Magazine on 10/13/2019 to previewing this book written for sea lovers, nature lovers, and history lovers. The Times' magazine coverage gives a good flyover of this compelling book, its stunning photos, and its engaging personal and cultural stories. Copy and paste this link, and then you can click around to multiple excerpts of the book in the magazine's pages: bit.ly/2MBpPVB "Lead author David Workman does a wonderful job pulling together facts from the far-flung corners of Puget Sound, providing a realistic sense of the place where we live. But I was most captivated by the stories of the local people who have made a difference in protecting, restoring or otherwise improving our region."Christopher Dunagan, Kitsap (WA) Sun, Oct. 30, 2019See the full review. Copy this link, and paste: bit.ly/34i1E5M "Beautifully and profusely illustrated throughout, 'We Are Puget Sound: Discovering and Recovering the Salish Sea' is...impressively informative, deftly organized, and accessibly presented."~ Midwest Book Review, December 2019 "( We Are) Puget Sound has all the joys of a gorgeous photo book. There's an indescribable picture of the largest jellyfish in the world, the haunting lion's mane jellyfish. A beady-eyed American mink pokes out of a little cave .... But there's a lot of text here, too. In addition to the narrative that describes the importance of the Sound and its ecosystem, ( We Are) Puget Sound is full of sidebars which offer magazine article-style profile of prominent ecologists, discussions of indigenous efforts to save the Sound for future generations, and a discussion of how educators use the Sound as a test case for interested students. The last (chapter) ... serves as a travel guide of the best locations to enjoy the Sound's varied pleasures. It's a book you can read cover to cover or dip into from time to time." ~ Seattle Review of Books / Paul Constant / Dec. 17, 2019 "Salish Sea Love Letter (and a Call to Action)""A new book, We Are Puget Sound
Discovering & Recovering the Salish Sea , provides a roadmap to recovering the health of these waters off the coast of inland Washington state and British Columbia, with inspirational stories of what individuals are doing - and essays and photographs that remind the reader of what's at stake."~ Indian Country Today / Richard Walker / April 2, 2020 To see and experience Puget Sound and the greater Salish Sea is to be forever affected by it. My captivation began in May 1976 aboard a jet landing at Seattle just as the setting sun lit up the massive white cone of Mount Rainier in an unforgettable alpenglow. The waters of the Sound took on the colors of the sunset.On weekends that summer, as a young editor of the Herald in Everett WA, I began my lifelong education about these waters and the surrounding landscape. It began while I was a guest of generous friends / hosts / mentors Jeanne and Harry Metzger, who lived their lives on these shores.In the pages of We Are Puget Sound , you will meet and know many Puget Sounders, some of them with family roots going back thousands of years here. I'm thankful they entrusted their stories to the authors, and to our publishers, so we could share them with you. We Are Puget Sound is a stunnin