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The State of Washington contains Puget Sound, Whidbey Basin, Hood Canal, and the US side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the San Juan Islands. The Executive Branch implements state law to manage natural resources. State authority has been divided among an exceptionally large number of agencies.
Along with Federal Government the state creates the environment in which local actors interact with the ecosystem. Different Laws authorize different state agencies to regulate and administrate land use as managed most directly by local Jurisdictions
State agencies receive funds and authority from federal agencies, and in turn have relationships with local jursidictions.
After the The Boldt Decision (and as affirmed in The Culvert Case), Washington State must co-manage fisheries with Tribal Governments. A more integrated discussion of the interactions of agencies is found on the government page.
The following state agencies are described in the wiki:
- Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
- The Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program
- Washington State Military Department
- Washington State Office of the Governor
- Public Works Board
- Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office
- Puget Sound Partnership
- Washington State Department of Health
- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Washington State Department of Ecology
- Governor's Salmon Recovery Office
- Washington State Department of Agriculture
- Washington State Department of Natural Resources
- Washington State Department of Commerce
- Washington Recreation and Conservation Office
- Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development
- Washington State Conservation Comission
- Washington State Department of Transportation
- Results Washington
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries
- Thurston County
- Port of Everett
- French Slough Flood Control District
- Conservation Districts
- Snohomish Conservation District
- Mason Conservation District (MCD)
- Island Conservation Corps
- Thurston Conservation District
- Whatcom Conservation District
- Snoqualmie Valley Watershed Improvement District
- San Juan Island Conservation District
- Washington Farmland Trust
