What You Can Do for Salmon Habitat
Three Ways to Get Involved for the Salmon
1. Volunteer in Your Watershed
You can lend a hand to restore salmon habitat for future generations!
2. Take Action at Home
Act on the fact that Puget Sound Starts Here! in your backyard, on your street, in your community.
Use natural yard care practices to save money, time, and the environment:
- Build healthy soil
- Plant right for your site
- Practice smart watering
- Think twice before using pesticides
- Practice natural lawn care
Protect and restore streamside vegetation:
- Use native plants for beauty, water conservation, and ease of maintenance
- Keep streamside areas naturally vegetated
- Control noxious weeds
Protect Puget Sound beaches and beach bluffs:
- Use the Puget Sound Shoreline Stewardship Guidebook
- Manage vegetation on coastal slopes
- Restore native vegetation on Puget Sound bluffs
Conserve water:
- Install low flow showerheads, faucet heads and toilets, or turn off the tap when brushing your teeth
- Use timed watering and avoid overwatering your yard
Take care of your car:
- Learn more about how to fix oil leaks, keep you car tuned up, and more with the Washington Storm Center's Don't Drip and Drive campaign!
Reduce runoff:
- Plant trees
- Plant a rain garden
- Minimize paving
- Minimize runoff to storm drains
3. Help Shape the Future by Participating in the Watershed Management Process
- You can attend committee meetings where decisions are being made about how implement the Salmon Habitat Plan
- Learn more by exploring the tremendous amount of scientific research and planning that's gone on in the watershed