Kathy Fletcher, Executive Director of People for Puget Sound, has an opinion piece at the PI on the future of Puget Sound.  She says it's time to understand the scope of the challenges facing us in restoring Puget Sound to health.  First she reminds us that the Puget Sound ecosystem is just that - an ecosystem, not a set of stovepiped "issues", i.e. clean water, a healthy orca populution, enough salmon for a decent fishery.  

"To bring Puget Sound back to health, we need to do the things that will most quickly and effectively restore the health of the Sound. Stopping sprawling development, cleaning up and preventing toxic pollution, restoring healthy habitat in river-mouth estuaries and shorelines, using rain gardens, green roofs and pervious pavement to absorb rainwater and curtail stormwater pollution -- these are the priorities that will save the Sound."

And here's the harder part: we are going to have to really want it because it is going to cost more money to do what needs to be done.