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The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by ...
Prairies of South Puget Sound. Before European settlement, the Georgia Depression was dominated by dense coniferous forests of Coast Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock, Western Redcedar, shore pine, and western white pine. [3] The ecoregion was also home to extensive coastal wetlands and peat bog ecosystems scattered about in poorly drained areas.
Puget Sound (/ ˈ p juː dʒ ɪ t / PEW-jit; Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč IPA: [ˈχʷəlt͡ʃ] WHULCH) [1] [2] is a complex estuarine [5] system of interconnected marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington.
The price tag might be as high as $24 billion, but a do-nothing approach could cost $31 billion in annual economic impact, ... according to a May 2021 study by the Puget Sound Regional Council.
Significant amounts of trade with Asia pass through the ports of the Puget Sound. Washington is the fourth largest exporting state in the United States, after New York, California, and Texas. The ports of Washington handle 8% of all American exports and receive 6% of the nation's imports. [7]
The Puget Sound region has been rapidly growing. According to the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), a board that plans for growth in the four central counties of the area (Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish and King counties), the combined population of these counties was nearly 3.4 million residents in 2003.
The Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland [1]) of western Washington contains the bulk of the population and economic assets of the state, and carries seven percent of the international trade of the United States. [2] All this is at risk of earthquakes from three sources: [3]
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