Soon after arriving in King County in 2016, Tahmina Martelly signed on as manager of Resiliency Programs for World Relief Seattle. Through that program, she envisioned and led an innovative effort to tear up an unused hillside parking lot and replace it with food gardens and a rain-collection system--diverting many thousands of gallons of polluted storm runoff before it could reach the Duwamish River and Elliott Bay on Puget Sound.
Leonard Forsman is the Chairman of the Suquamish Tribe and President of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians. In five minutes, Chairman Forsman takes us through hundreds of years of regional history, many threats to Tribal Treaty rights, including the severe threat of dwindling salmon runs throughout the northwest year after year, affecting livelihoods, ecosystems, and jeopardizing the Tribal treaties to which the United States is legally bound.
As a trained volunteer for the Beach Watchers, Kyle is doing his part to protect Puget Sound from pollution, habitat destruction, and damage to the sea creatures. He might be his family’s number one beach volunteer, but his mom, Leigh Anne Burford, is right behind him. She, too, volunteers for Beach Watchers.
We recognize that the Salish Sea region are traditional and present-day homelands of many Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Nations. We acknowledge the place-based knowledge of these peoples, and are grateful for their ancestral and current stewardship of these lands.
