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Puget Sound Partnership GPRA 2008 Report Summary by Habitat Category


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2008 Puget Sound Partnership
NEP Habitat Category Acreage


2008 Puget Sound Partnership Pie Chart showing NEP Habitat Category by Acreage

Total Acreage: 261.00


The Puget Sound Partnership NEP has protected and/or restored a total of 261.00 acres of habitat in 2008. The pie chart shows the proportion of acreage devoted to each habitat-type, including 58% for Wetland habitat and 42% for Beach and Dune habitat.

The Table immediately below provides brief summary information about the protection and/or restoration projects completed and reported by the NEP in 2008.

Year 2008 Projects
Project Name Activity Project Description Habitat Type Acreage Linear Miles
Boundary Bay - Point Roberts, Lilly Point Protection/Maintenance Acquisition of a 103 acre parcel and re-connection of feeder bluff and riparian forest with nearshore processes. Beach 103 0
Elliott Bay - Olympic Sculpture Garden Pocket Beach Rehabilitation Beach re-contouring, excavation to original mudflat, replanting and provision of large woody debris along the shore. Tidal Wetland 1 0
Hood Canal- Skokomish River, West Bank Dike Removal Reestablishment Dike breach, hydrological reconnection of previously isolated parcel to the main estuary. Freshwater Marsh 108 0
Hood Canal - Belfair State Park Berm Removal Rehabilitation Beach re-contouring, excavation to original mudflat, replanting and provision of large woody debris along the shore. Beach 6 0
Snohomish River - Union Slough Dike Breach Rehabilitation Dike breach, hydrological reconnection of previously isolated parcel to the main estuary. Tidal Wetland 43 0
Total 261 0

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