Saving Puget Sound: A Practical, Long-Term Conservation Strategy

John Lombard
Senior Policy Analyst, Steward and Associates
Author, Saving Puget Sound: A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century

10 April 2007

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About the speaker

John Lombard is the Senior Policy Analyst at Steward and Associates, an environmental consulting firm, where he advises local governments, environmental groups and attorneys on salmon conservation and regulatory compliance issues. He holds the same title at the Sustainable Fisheries Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection, enhancement, and wise use of fisheries resources in the Pacific Northwest. From 1996 to 2000, he was the Seattle area’s Watershed Coordinator for Lake Washington, working with local governments and citizen groups throughout the most heavily populated watershed in the state to address regional priorities for salmon habitat and water quality. Prior to that, he was on the central staff of the Metropolitan King County Council, where he advised the Utilities and Natural Resources Committee on legislation and policies related to salmon conservation, surface water management, and water, sewer, solid waste and other utility issues.

Mr. Lombard is the author of “The Keys to Success: A Landscape Approach and Making Economics Work for Conservation”, a chapter in The Salmon 2100 Project: Alternative Futures for Pacific Salmon, published by the American Fisheries Society in August 2006. He also wrote “The Politics of Salmon Recovery in Lake Washington”, published in Fall 2002 by the University of Washington Press as a chapter in Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers. He has spoken on Puget Sound conservation and related issues at conferences hosted by the University of Washington, the American Fisheries Society, the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics, the American Water Resources Association, the Northwest Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration and Sustainable Northwest.