Hood Canal residents and visitors prize access to local wild foods and the ability to carry out locally-based traditional natural resource practices, like fishing and hunting, and harvesting shellfish and timber. We’ve experienced that our economy hums when tourism thrives. Our communities are stronger when we are all enjoying Hood Canal. All of these benefits are made possible by clean water and air, healthy marine life, productive land, and safe beaches.
The Hood Canal Coordinating Council is a forum for local and tribal governments from across the Canal to work in partnership with local, state, and federal partners, community groups, and residents.
HCCC’s Integrated Watershed Plan outlines how to keep Hood Canal a unique and special place for generations to come.
HCCC tracks the status of ecosystem indicators, including natural resource and human wellbeing components, to inform our work to protect and improve Hood Canal. Our current focus is tracking three natural resource components and their connections to our wellbeing:
Summer chum salmon rebound
Changes to our forests
Healthy shellfish bed abundance
Human wellbeing interactions with the environment
Why is Human Wellbeing an ecosystem component?
The ecosystem includes humans. It’s important that we understand and track the ways we interact – how we both impact and benefit from – the natural world. The tradeoffs between ecosystem protection and human uses play a large role in ecosystem management decisions.
Learn more about the IWP, and HCCC’s effort to integrate human wellbeing in ecosystem management.
Click on the ecosystem components at the top for information on the indicators we are tracking.
Or view past Hood Canal Ecosystem Report Cards >>
