Nearshore Birds in Puget Sound Prepared in support of the Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership

The Puget Sound Nearshore Partner-ship (PSNP) has developed a list of valued ecosystem components (VECs). The list of VECs is meant to represent a cross-section of organisms and physical structures that occupy and interact with the physical processes found in the near-shore. The VECs will help PSNP frame the symptoms of declining Puget Sound nearshore ecosystem integrity, explain how ecosystem processes are linked to ecosystem outputs, and describe the potential benefits of proposed actions in terms that make sense to the broader community. A series of “white papers ” was developed that describes each of the VECs. Following is the list of published papers in the series.