From The Seattle Times:

A coalition of conservation groups hopes to establish 10 new parks along Puget Sound as part of a new 10-year effort to revitalize shorelines.

The Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Public Lands and People for Puget Sound yesterday kicked off what they say will be a decadelong, multibillion-dollar campaign to clean up and restore the 2,100-mile web of tidelands, mud flats, rocky shores and beaches that serve as a nursery for the Sound's aquatic life.

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The groups also plan to take on a host of restoration projects, such as a recent Nature Conservancy program in the South Sound's Woodard Bay near Olympia to restore native Olympia oysters. And they plan to purchase more tidelands that are important to species such as herring, hake and migratory birds -- for example, properties recently bought with state and federal grants around Port Susan Bay in the Skagit River delta.

"We have been working around the Skagit, the San Juans, the Duwamish and South Sound and have some ideas about projects, but the details will be forthcoming," said Kathy Fletcher, executive director of People for Puget Sound.

The goal, ultimately, is to build momentum for restoration of Puget Sound on a massive scale.