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Posted: 10/12/2006 4:37:01 PM EDT

Task Force: Puget Sound Needs Billions

Oct 12, 7:23 PM (ET)

By RACHEL LA CORTE

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - It will take billions of dollars and targeted efforts to restore dwindling habitat and reduce pollution if Puget Sound's biggest problems are to be solved by 2020, a state task force said Thursday.

In a summary of a draft report to be released to Gov. Chris Gregoire on Friday, the Partnership for Puget Sound said the state needs to improve not just the sound, but the entire ecosystem that surrounds it.

"We must manage our complex Puget Sound ecosystem holistically to ensure that we stop harm and protect the connections within the ecosystem itself," the report summary read. "Ecosystem-based management will help us grapple with the potential trade-offs inherent in balancing the needs of people and the environment that we share with other species."

The partnership was created in late 2005 by Gregoire, who has ordered the group of business, education, environment and government leaders to come up with a detailed recovery plan for Puget Sound.

The task force has proposed eight priorities for the state to address, including protecting the existing habitat, reducing toxins entering the sound and managing stormwater runoff.

Within each priority the group suggested actions, such as increasing money to protect freshwater and marine habitats, cleaning up all Superfund and high priority sites, and increasing public education.

In a July report to Gregoire, the partnership warned that many people living in the region had an overly optimistic view of the sound's health - two-thirds of people contacted for a survey rated the sound's health as "good."

"The lack of public awareness on Puget Sound conditions contributes to the lack of support for the personal and public policy actions needed to restore the sound's health," the summary read.

The task force also recommends the creation of a new Puget Sound Ecosystem Partnership to oversee the actions taken and to monitor results.

Puget Sound Partnership said that several billions of dollars over the coming decades will be needed to achieve the level of protection and restoration needed.

The report says cleaning up contaminated sites over the next 12 years will cost more than $500, salmon recovery plans will cost more than $1.6 billion, and stormwater impacts will run more than $2 billion.

The group said that increased money from the state, the federal government and private sector will be necessary to meet all of the goals.

Posted: 10/12/2006 5:01:05 PM EDT

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Task Force: Puget Sound Needs Billions

Oct 12, 7:23 PM (ET)

By RACHEL LA CORTE
The report says cleaning up contaminated sites over the next 12 years will cost more than $500, salmon recovery plans will cost more than $1.6 billion, and stormwater impacts will run more than $2 billion.

The group said that increased money from the state, the federal government and private sector will be necessary to meet all of the goals.

Government doesnt produce anything but death and destruction, they can only take and never give.

Too bad we can not just kill murderers and thieves on sight.

Posted: 10/12/2006 5:13:29 PM EDT

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Task Force: Puget Sound Needs Billions

Oct 12, 7:23 PM (ET)

By RACHEL LA CORTE
The report says cleaning up contaminated sites over the next 12 years will cost more than $500, salmon recovery plans will cost more than $1.6 billion, and stormwater impacts will run more than $2 billion.

The group said that increased money from the state, the federal government and private sector will be necessary to meet all of the goals.

Government doesnt produce anything but death and destruction, they can only take and never give.

Too bad we can not just kill murderers and thieves on sight.

Hydro-electric damns
flood control
irrigation of desert regions that are the most productive in the world
Bridges
roads
schools

It must be hard to live wanting to hurt and kill people everyday. Its my job as an Infantrymen and I dont even wish harm as much as you do. But then being a farmer in nowhere with no military skill must make you a badass, I'll ask my dad if this is true.

Posted: 10/12/2006 5:19:23 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/12/2006 5:22:00 PM EDT

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I try.

Posted: 10/12/2006 5:22:37 PM EDT

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Hydro-electric damns
flood control
irrigation of desert regions that are the most productive in the world
Bridges
roads
schools;)]

Socialism pure and simple, and not cost effective, those programs cause death and destruction but it should come as a surprize you support fascism being part of a fascist organization and all.

Posted: 10/12/2006 5:32:05 PM EDT

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It must be hard to live wanting to hurt and kill people everyday. Its my job as an Infantrymen and I dont even wish harm as much as you do. But then being a farmer in nowhere with no military skill must make you a badass, I'll ask my dad if this is true.

It must be nice and peacefull to be a brainwashed simpleton who relies on the govt. for everything, including instructions on how to think.

It muse REALLY be nice to live in a world where you think that the politicians are all kind hearted, honest, and really there to serve the people, instead of money grubbing thieves who use legal means to steal from the populace instead of guns.....oh wait...they do that too....except they use people who are willing to wear a badge and do it under the "rule of law", and who are too worried about loosing their home mortgage so they are willing to shit all over the rest of the populace.

And you keep talking as if being in the military just makes you the cats ass, and those who havn't been are somehow less then yourself. Don't forget....the higher the horse, the harder the horse shit hits the ground.

Posted: 10/12/2006 5:34:04 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/12/2006 5:34:41 PM EDT

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Da_Bunny, feel free to repost yoru article maybe there can be discussion on the topic without all of the insults and BS that cropped up.

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