The Hood Canal Coordinating Council (HCCC) is developing an integrated watershed plan for Hood Canal. The purpose for the integrated watershed plan (IWMP) is to provide a comprehensive, coordinated strategy for protecting and restoring the Hood Canal watershed. The Hood Canal integrated watershed plan is designed to address the HCCC’s strategic objectives as described in the HCCC’s Strategic Plan and to implement the Puget Sound Partnership’s Puget Sound Action Agenda for the Hood Canal watershed. The framework for the integrated plan is an organizational concept for integrating existing plans and programs to protect and restore the Hood Canal watershed and will include the following elements:

• A public involvement strategy that harnesses the knowledge and potential of the general public to shape and implement the Integrated Watershed Management Plan.

• An inventory of existing plans and programs, yielding a shared vision and a priority set of targets to focus conservation and restoration actions.

• A watershed assessment that analyzes key ecological attributes of, threats to and viability of priority targets; develops result chains or logic models for priority targets and strategies; develops biological and socioeconomic objectives for those strategies; develops indicators for measuring progress; finalizes the desired future conditions; and develops the adaptive management plan.

• A management plan will be compiled from the work described above to operationalize public involvement, corrective actions, decision-making, monitoring, and funding.


The level 3 projects contained within this level 2 project page document the work being done to forward the IWMP public involvement strategy (the first bullet described above).

For more information on other aspects of the Integrated Watershed Management Plan (IWMP), see the Hood Canal Coordinating Council's website at www.hccc.wa.gov