Get muddy while making friends and restoring salmon streams, planting native trees and doing battle with invasive plants, all in the name of helping Puget Sound. You just need boots, gloves, rain gear (depending on weather), a bagged lunch, a water bottle and a great attitude. Events take place around the region. Check dates at EarthCorps.org and MudUp.org.

Most have probably heard that Puget Sound needs help. That’s why MudUp was created – to restore and protect Puget Sound shorelines. The Alliance for Puget Sound Shorelines is the group behind MudUp. But behind the Alliance, you’ll find The Trust for Public Land, The Nature Conservancy, and People For Puget Sound, all working together for the first time in an historic partnership. It’s a massive, multi-year conservation, restoration, and protection project. Because when it comes to Puget Sound – your Puget Sound – it’s all or nothing.

They’re not asking for money, just some of your time. And with activities for young and old, families and weekend mud warriors, it’ll be all-out fun. The first deadline is June 2009. By then, they’re going to try to create 10 new parks and natural areas along Puget Sound shorelines, restore 100 miles of shoreline, and protect 1,000 miles of shoreline. Sure it’ll be a marathon, but it will succeed. Because you’re going to help.

New video released on saving Puget Sound

“Puget Sound is like a peach, it looks great on the outside but if you cut it, it’s rotten on the inside,” says artist/educator Tony Angell in the opening minute of a new, seven-minute video on the state of the Sound and our opportunity to bring the Sound back to health.

Produced for People For Puget Sound and by Seattle videographer Jeff Gentes, the video features Tony Angell, Dr. Usha Varanasi, Billy Frank, Jr., Ron Sims, Senator Karen Fraser, Elsa Carlisle, Sharon Moody-Berquist, Kathy Fletcher, and Doug Myers,

The video is found online at: www.video.google.com/videoplay?docid=24243118493081945&hl=en.