Saving Puget Sound: A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century.

• Position: Brief article - Book review

John Lombard. P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096: University of Washington Press, February 2007. (206) 543-4050. www.washington.edu/uwpress. ISBN 0-295-98674-3. 320 pp. $35.00 Paperback.

No other developed area in the world matches the Puget Sound region's combination of beauty, wealth, natural resiliency, and history of environmental concern. Saving Puget Sound develops a practical proposal to conserve the Puget Sound region's most important ecosystems in the face of long-term population growth, drawing lessons that are relevant across the Northwest and in other parts of the country. The book provides both a vision for conservation and a detailed review of the political and legal issues that must be at the core of any practical strategy.

Published by the American Fisheries Society and the University of Washington Press, Saving Puget Sound is intended for a broad...