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  • King County Surface Water Management - Local government agency protecting water resources through watershed planning, restoration, and community involvement.
  • People for Puget Sound -- SoundWeb - dedicated to a healthy environment, healhy economy, and healthy communities in Puget Sound
  • People for the Preservation of the Tualco Valley - PPTV is a group of citizens committed to preserving the rural character of the Tualco Valley, Monroe, Washington State.
  • Puget Sound On-Line - Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team's resource for protecting water quality and resources. Everything from research to recipes.
  • Puget Sound Update - The annual report on monitoring of water quality and contamination in Puget Sound.
  • What's News in Puget Sound? - Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team's resource for what's happening to protect water quality. Includes Sound Waves and Puget Sound Notes newsletters and press releases.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.