Puget Sound is a magnificent and intricate estuary, the very core of life in Western Washington. Yet it’s also a place of broader significance: rivers rush from the Cascade and Olympic mountains and Canada’s coastal ranges through varied watersheds to feed the Sound, which forms the southern portion of a complex, international ecosystem known as the Salish Sea.

A rich, life-sustaining home shared by two countries, as well as 50-plus Native American Tribes and First Nations, the Salish Sea is also a huge economic engine, with outdoor recreation and commercial shellfish harvesting alone worth $10.2 billion. But this spectacular inland sea is suffering. Pollution and habitat loss, human population growth, ocean acidification, climate change, and toxins from wastewater and storm runoff present formidable challenges.

We Are Puget Sound amplifies the voices and ideas behind saving Puget Sound, and it will help engage and inspire citizens around the region to join together to preserve its ecosystem and the livelihoods that depend on it.

About the Author

David L. Workman is an award-winning writer and editor. He was a journalist at several newspapers before entering public service as communication and education director for several state agencies in Washington State. He was executive editor of state-published books and websites on natural resources, environment, social and health services, and technology. He is a former Board Director of the Pacific Education Institute, and author of the award-winning We Are Puget Sound: Discovering & Recovering the Salish Sea.

David also wrote an Amazon bestselling biography and narrative history: Letter from Alabama: The Inspiring True Story of Strangers Who Saved a Child and Changed a Family Forever. He followed that with An Author Tells All: Surprises and Revelations from Publishing My Story.

Keep an eye out for him on Puget Sound beaches and waters and walking trails, or on the slopes of the mountain ranges that help to form the watershed of the Pacific Northwest's inland sea.

He has hiked, backpacked, camped, climbed, and skied on the slopes of these mountains for decades. He and his wife Clover have been Puget Sound sailors, campers, and canoeists.

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