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===Large Scale Estuary Restoration===
===Large Scale Estuary Restoration===
*The emergence of [[Floodplains by Design]] funding in the state capital budget, and [[Resilience Funding]] in the federal budget, followed by increasing focus on multiple benefits in the [[National Estuary Program]]'s Implementation Strategies work has led to the funding of diverse project elements.
*[[Snohomish Restoration 2015+
*[[Snohomish Restoration 2015+
*[[Farm, Fish and Flood Initiative]] in the [[Skagit Delta]] has been a sometimes controversial approach to restoration project development, because it involves a diverse community in considering the costs and benefits of projects to multiple constituencies.  It reviews a large population of projects using a multi-criteria decision process and system wide hydrodynamic modelling.
*Stillaguamish Delta Restoration
*Stillaguamish Delta Restoration
*[[Estuary Implementation Strategy]]
*[[Estuary Implementation Strategy]]
*[[Coordinated Investment]]
*[[Coordinated Investment]]

Revision as of 19:10, 15 August 2017


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Link to List of Workgroups Link to List of Topics Link to List of Places

Link to List of Efforts Link to List of Products Link to List of Documents Link to List of Graphics Link to List of Websites

Link to Headwater Sites Link to Lowland Watershed Sites Link to Floodplain Sites Link to Delta Sites Link to Embayment Sites Link to Beach Sites Link to Rocky Headland Sites

This page is a synthesis page to organize information about the Restoration of Puget Sound River Deltas. There are individual pages to orient to each river delta site. This page instead is intended to describe the shifting regional body of workgroups, documents, and efforts that represent the incremental restoration of the larger River Delta sites.

Early Activity

  • Spencer Island
  • Deepwater Slough
  • Snohomish Mitigation Projects
  • Nisqually Tribe projects
  • Skagit Delta and the was largely based on the work of the Skagit River System Cooperative, culminating in Greene & Beamer 2005 which identified a, empirical basis for estuary restoration as a crucial part of Skagit salmon recovery. The body of work from SRSC set the tone for future work.


The First Three Large Scale Efforts

  • Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project was a large scale planning project which ran from 2001-2015 with the authorization of a feasibility report by congress. It provided a sequence of analysis which described the relevance and loss of large river delta wetlands in Puget Sound, and established "process-based restoration" as a regional goal.
  • Meanwhile Quilcene Delta restoration was quietly advancing by the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group under a series of projects. While smaller and less researched than Nisqually or Skokomish, the Quilcene restoration was part of a leading edge of large scale dike setbacks.
  • Skokomish Restoration 2005-2017
  • Nisqually Delta restoration remains the single largest restoration action in Puget Sound, and was significant because it was a $15-20M project, funded by federal stimulus spending during the economic collapse of 2008-09 (along with the Elwha dam removals). It was the first "large scale" project, and inspired development of the Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration large capital projects program, which brought large blocks of state capital funding to bear on river delta projects.

Shifting Tools and Tactics


Large Scale Estuary Restoration