An Integrated Management Plan for the Hood Canal Watershed
The Hood Canal Coordinating Council (HCCC) and its partners are working with the broader community to create a strategic action plan that will set priorities to ensure a future in which the Hood Canal remains a special place for our children to enjoy. Priorities are being set to reduce the most serious pressures affecting our shared heritage, such as pollution affecting shellfish and growth pressures on working forests.
HCCC Vision: Humans Benefit from and Coexist Sustainably with a Healthy Hood Canal
Identifying what matters most….
Our aim is to conserve those priorities of Hood Canal that underpin the health of both Nature and Humans. After all, when we take care of nature, nature takes care of us by providing fish, shellfish, trees, clean water, and clean air – the very things that make Hood Canal such a spectacular place to live in and enjoy. Such “environmental services”, which nature provides for free, are important because they support many of our jobs in tourism, fisheries, forestry, and shellfishing.
Working with local residents, business people and scientists, the HCCC has developed priorities over the past year. These priorities are listed in the diagram below. The plan will focus on these priorities and help to ensure that each of them is conserved through time.
IWMP focal components for conservation (8 ecological, 9 socio-economic)
At the heart of the action plan are partnerships
While coordinated by the HCCC, this effort combines the hard work of scores of partners and thousands of citizens. We are committed to working with you as local residents to make this a plan that enables all of us to understand and participate in commonsense actions. From workshops to online updates and community actions, we want your input to shape this plan and your help putting it into action.
Together we can protect and restore Hood Canal!
For more information on the Integration Plan click here or email Heidi at hhuber@hccc.wa.gov to receive email updates for upcoming workshops.