ASCE Seattle Section October Meeting (Virtual)
Salmon Recovery in the Green/Duwamish Watershed
The Green/Duwamish River winds through one of the most populated, diverse, and wealthy regions in the state; setting up a complicated and challenging backdrop to recover salmon and restore salmon habitat. Suzanna will give a high-level overview of the structure and status of salmon recovery in WA state, then dive deep into salmon habitat recovery in the Green/Duwamish watershed. Talking through some of the major limiting factors and barriers to recovery and how we’re addressing them through a collaborative, community based approach. Suzanna will also give some insight on how she sees opportunity for seemingly disparate capital programs to work in alignment with, and in support of, efforts to protect, conserve and restore our natural systems for both fish and people.
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Suzanna Smith serves as the Habitat Projects Coordinator for WRIA 9, or Water Resource Inventory Area 9, which leads salmon habitat recovery efforts for the Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed. In her role, Suzanna facilitates the allocation of three major state and local grant programs totaling $3.6 - 5.3 million annually. This funding goes towards projects that protect, restore and enhance key fish habitat, and implement the NOAA approved salmon recovery chapter aimed at delisting Chinook salmon. Previous positions have included development of the Washington State Wetland Program Plan at the Department of Ecology and serving as Ecosystem Recovery Coordinator then Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration Fund Capital Program Manager for the Puget Sound Partnership. She has a dual Bachelor of Science in Biology and Marine Science, and a Master of Science specializing in Marine Resource Management with an emphasis in fisheries and community-based natural resource management. She lives in West Seattle with her husband Brent and two cats, Ava and Poppy. In her “Covid life” free time, she likes gardening, backpacking, riding motorcycles, and doing home renovations.