The governor has put her finger directly on the most critical needs in Puget Sound with this initiative. The additional funds she is proposing will accelerate some of the highest priority actions on the ground, while the new public-private partnership will build the broader coalition needed to safeguard the future of this great natural area.

People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across.

It's been years since that kind of new money for Puget Sound has been on the books. This is turning a corner here.

You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find it's fairly significant.