BLYN — Imagine the good you’d harvest by harnessing all the random acts of kindness committed along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and around Puget Sound.
That’s how one leader of a new state environmental agency reckoned the effect it could have on water quality and salmon habitat.
Martha Neuman, action agenda director for the Puget Sound Partnership, directed her comments to about 80 people at a conference in Blyn on Wednesday.
The Puget Sound Partnership expands and accelerates the role of the old Puget Sound Action Team of state, local and tribal environmental programs.
Gov. Chris Gregoire and the state Legislature have tasked it with cleaning up the Sound and adjacent waters by 2020.
Its agenda is due by Labor Day.
Representatives of government and nonprofit agencies from Clallam and Jefferson counties — the Partnership’s Strait Action Area, one of seven divisions — gathered Wednesday at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Center.
Like those random acts of kindness, they represented huge potential.
