Sunday’s Olympian has a thorough, easy-to-navigate report on the health of Puget Sound. The occasion is the state’s attempt to kickstart a new group of government and private organizations to do what previous government-only efforts have failed at: save the Sound.

Details so far are few. The plan was announced in July and reported here.

But the latest Olympian report offers a trove of data and an excellent multimedia show demonstrating the link between population growth, pollution and the region’s economy. There’s less contamination of soil and heavy metals, and herring populations have grown, for example, but the polluted runoff from roads has increased, more areas are closed for shellfish harvest and some populations of birds are in freefall.