How to Help
Join with us to demand an independent environmental impact study on the industrialization of our tidelands.
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Ten easy things you can do to protect Puget Sound from the People for Puget Sound website. |
Contact Your County Development Services
If you live in Thurston County, write or send email to:
Cathy Wolfe, Thurston County Commissioner, District One
Thurston County Washington
2000 Lakeridge Drive, S. W.
Building 1, Room 269
Olympia, WA 98502-6045
(360) 357-2470
Diane Oberquell, Thurston County Commissioner, District Two
Thurston County Washington
Building 1, Room 269
2000 Lakeridge Drive, S. W.
Olympia, WA 98502-6045
(360) 786-5440
Robert N. Macleod, Thurston County Commissioner, District Three
Thurston County, Washington
Building 1, Room 269
2000 Lakeridge Drive S.W.
Olympia, Washington 98501
(360) 754-4645
Roger Giebelhaus, Thurston County Planner
Address: 2617-A 12th Court SW, Olympia, WA 98502
Michael Welter, Director, Thurston County Development Services
Address: 2617-A 12th Court SW, Olympia, WA 98502
Become Educated
Read the articles and visit links listed on our Articles Page to learn about shellfish farming in general and geoduck farming specifically.
Go to Taylor Shellfish Farms and learn about the shellfish industry.
Give Feedback
Go to the Governor's Puget Sound Partnership to give feedback to the Puget Sound Partnership about the Governor's initiative to clean up the Sound by 2020.
Give feedback to DNR about the geoduck program on State owned subtidal land. Includes survey feedback form which can be sent by mail to DNR.
Give feedback about Geoduck Aquaculture and the DNR Pilot
Project related to geoduck farming on state tidelands, please contact either of the two DNR project coordinators: e-mail: Celia Barton (360) 902-1025, or Jeanne Koenings (360) 902-1080.
Give feedback to People for Puget Sound
Make a Donation
Make a donation to Citizens for a Healthy Bay in Tacoma and earmark your donation for research on geoduck farming.
Get Involved and/or Get Help
Contact SaveOurShoreline.net, a shoreline community on the Key Peninsula.
Contact ProtectOurShoreline.org, a group of shoreline property owners, boaters, fishermen and environmentalists.
Contact NoGeoduckFarm.com, a shoreline community on Case Inlet.
All these groups can help you in your effort to protect your shoreline.
Write Letters to the Editor of your Local Newspaper
The Olympian.
Tacoma News Tribune.
Seattle Times.
The Peninsula Gateway. Gig Harbor/Key Peninsula Areas
The Kitsap Sun. Bremerton, Hood Canal, Kitsap Peninsula
Contact your Legislators
Contact your local State Representative. Tell them that there needs to be an Environmental Impact Statement done for this experimental industry. Tell them you are concerned with the inherent harm in an uncoordinated and piecemeal development of the State's Shorelines, as stated in the Shoreline Management Act. WA State Shoreline Management Act
Maria Cantwell Senator
Karen Fraser State Senator, 22nd District
Sam Hunt State Legislator, 22nd District
Brendan Williams State Legislator, 22nd District