Water and Natural Resources
Central Puget Sound Nearshore Project List
Client: King County, WA
In 2007, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife commissioned a study to analyze the consistency between nearshore recovery strategies developed at two different scales of analysis in the Puget Sound Recovery Plan: fine-scale actions developed at the watershed scale, and broad strategies developed at the regional scale. Cascadia assisted King County with its assigned task of comparing the nearshore recovery actions in the salmon recovery plans from WRIAs 5, 7, 8, and 9 (the Central Puget Sound region) with those described in the Puget Sound Recovery Plan. Using a framework for comparison that the client developed, Cascadia analyzed each plan, organized information into customized spreadsheets, and wrote a clear evaluation of the consistency between these plans. According to WDFW, the final report, which includes work by several other authors, will be "vital for the new Puget Sound Partnership in developing the 2020 Action Agenda."
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Cascadia writes plans that we use, that don’t sit idly on a shelf. Their staff has a clear understanding of the material, can communicate it effectively and knows the right questions to ask. They are fast, efficient and on budget and stick to their tasks. If we had to pick our consultant all over again, it would be Cascadia.
- Bill Graham, Resource Manager, Jefferson County PUD No. 1