The Alliance for Puget Sound Shorelines

Working with partners to protect and restore Washington’s remarkable inland sea

Puget Sound’s 2,500 miles of shoreline—bluffs, beaches, tidelands, and estuaries—are vital and vibrant. Ecologically, they’re key to the Sound’s overall health; those many miles provide a range of habitats and dynamic processes that support the Sound’s far-reaching web of life. The shorelines are also important to people, connecting us to an inland sea that is at the heart of the region’s cultural, social, and economic identity.

Because of this vital importance, three leading conservation groups—People For Puget Sound, The Trust for Public Land, and The Nature Conservancy— formed the Alliance for Puget Sound Shorelines, and launched the MudUp campaign to get more people out on the Sound, and actively care for our threatened environment.

Thanks to MudUp, Puget Sounders are more engaged and active in ensuring the Sound will be restored to a safe, healthy and beautiful place into the future, beyond our campaign timeframe of June, 2006-June, 2009. As we enter our second phase, our on-the-ground work depends on the work of many partners--including our legions of volunteers, supporters and donors, and the Puget Sound Partnership, a state agency charged with restoring the Sound to health by 2020.

This collaboration will lay the groundwork for what could ultimately be a long-term, extensive campaign, putting the effort to save Puget Sound on par with other large-scale restuary restoration projects, such as those currently underway in the Chesapeake Bay and the Everglades.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
—Rachel Carson