RESTORATION GOALS. The landscape assessment identified and quantified that the most significant changes to native ecosystem diversity have occurred in forest structures, species compositions, and patterns associated with the historically common non-lethal and mixed-severity fire regimes. In particular, the pre-fire suppression old growth condition characterized in the landscape assessment as the low severity fire late seral forest condition which were historically common native ecosystems in this landscape occur in greatly reduced amounts today. Further, where these residual late seral structures and species composition remain in the landscape, fire suppression activities have facilitated their in-growth by high densities of younger trees that now put the stand at risk of high severity fire and competition for water and nutrients which may continue to reduce opportunities for restoring these historically important native conditions in this landscape. In fact, recent wildfires have demonstrated that these residual structures continue to be at high risk from stand replacing fire and require immediate protection where they still occur. Restoring the historical fire regimes and forest conditions in these high risk native ecosystems should be a high priority for land managers and is highly compatible with many of the objectives identified for the SW Crown project. Specifically, objectives identified in the SW Crown proposal include: • Restore forest structure processes and resiliency, promote diversity, establish a mosaic pattern consistent with the mixed-severity fire regime that mimics historical and native landscape conditions, maximize retention of large trees, reintroduce low-severity and low-intensity fire on sites that historically burned in this manner to establish open stands consistent with historical conditions. • Treatments outside of the WUI will be vegetative restoration projects intended to maximize retention of large trees while maintaining and restoring pre-fire suppression old growth conditions and a mosaic of size class distribution, and improving resiliency. To accomplish these stated restoration objectives while also addressing the findings of the landscape assessment, the SW Crown collaborative has identified a recommended initial goal of restoring 10% of the mean historical range of variability (HRV) for the non-lethal and mixed-severity A fire regimes, using the coarse-filter framework. This strategy emphasizes providing representation of sufficient amou...
RESTORATION GOALS. Shoreline Master Program goals and policies should be consistent with and integrated into the Xxxxxxx Comprehensive Plan. As the City works through the SMP update process, the following potential goals and policies related to shoreline restoration could be added to the Comprehensive Plan under a newly created Shoreline Master Program Element. The content is organized to be consistent with the structure and organization of the Xxxxxxx Comprehensive Plan elements. Some of the policy statements below are already included in the Draft SMP (2013).
