2022-2026 ACTION AGENDA EXPLORER
Establish and implement science-based riparian protection, restoration, and management policies that result in a minimum ‘1 Site Potential Tree Height’ forested riparian area standard. (ID #11)
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 include:
Provide incentives, financial and technical support to local jurisdictions that have prioritized riparian restoration. (ID #201)
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 include:
Human Wellbeing |
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Climate Change |
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 to integrate human wellbeing considerations in efforts to protect and restore riparian areas include: | Key opportunities for 2022-2026 to integrate climate change responses in efforts to protect and restore riparian areas include: | |
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Ongoing programs provide regulatory oversight, technical support, implementation resources, funding, or guidance and serve as the critical foundation for Puget Sound recovery. The following is a list of example state and federal ongoing programs that help to implement this strategy. Many more local, tribal nations, and nongovernmental programs exist that support this strategy.
We are achieving our recovery goals of increasing functioning habitat, improving water quality, and maintaining thriving species and food webs in the Puget Sound region by protecting ecologically important lands from development and restoring instream and riparian areas of rivers and streams based on a statewide forested riparian area standard. Riparian landowners are implementing BMPs to protect and restore riparian habitat, and local jurisdictions are effectively implementing and enforcing the statewide standard. Indicators of success include:
This is a candidate progress indicator measuring our ability to prevent conversion of natural land cover in ecologically important areas due to development. Priority areas include riparian areas, floodplains, estuaries, wetlands, etc. This indicator is under development.
No reported data available
This is a candidate progress indicator that would track the total acres of riparian areas protected or restored sound-wide, including on agricultural lands and within Urban Growth Areas. This indicator is under development.
This candidate progress indicator would track the total acres of working lands treated with water quality Best Management Practices (BMPs), including riparian plantings. This indicator is under development.
No reported data available
This indicator measures the percent and acreage of forested cover (vegetation approximately 8 feet or taller) within defined riparian zones landward of the marine shoreline.
No reported data available
This indicator reports on field-based discrete and continuous measurements of water temperature in streams and rivers, at representative spatial and temporal scales for the Puget Sound ecosystem. The indicator will determine the frequency and extent to which temperature is above biological requirements of aquatic species for survival and recovery.
No reported data available