Navigating Coastal Squeeze

Navigating Coastal Squeeze: Identifying Needs and Priorities to Scale up Estuarine Restoration in Puget Sound

This all-day workshop will examine urban growth and rising seas and the unprecedented pressure placed on coastal wetlands and deltas in the Puget Sound. These estuarine spaces support many important uses, from salmon habitat to farmland, natural flood protection to prime real estate and transportation corridors. Intensifying competition for estuarine space raises both the urgency and the challenge of protecting and restoring habitat while accommodating farming, growth and other uses. For more information check the Event Flyer and Agenda

Key Questions guiding the workshop:

• What is Coastal Squeeze and how will it be exacerbated under different Climate Change scenarios?
• How do we integrate the biophysical drivers and human dimensions (e.g. projected water elevations, population growth, planning processes, etc.) to inform what we need to be doing differently into the future to support expanded restoration?
• Where are there opportunities to increase resilience to address a more dynamic future landscape?