2022-2026 ACTION AGENDA EXPLORER
Increase the number and accelerate implementation of habitat acquisition and restoration projects as prioritized in salmon and watershed recovery plans. (ID #12)
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 include:
Incorporate the economic risks and costs of development into land use planning in floodplain and estuary habitats. (ID #18)
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 include:
Develop and maintain a Puget Sound-wide framework to build public support and political will, develop partnerships, mobilize funding resources, streamline permitting, and support monitoring for integrated floodplain management approaches to enhance outcomes for fish populations, flood risk, and agricultural viability (farm, fish, flood). (ID #19)
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 include:
Prioritize, design, and implement reach-scale restoration and protection projects within a river basin or watershed. (ID #20)
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 include:
Implement habitat protection and restoration projects that restore or maintain natural nutrient attenuation functions and sediment processes in watersheds, estuaries, and tidal wetlands. (ID #24)
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 include:
Increase and improve floodplain and estuary regulation implementation, compliance, enforcement, incentives, and communication. (ID #195)
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 include:
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Key opportunities for 2022-2026 to integrate human wellbeing consideration in efforts to protect and restore floodplains and estuaries include: |
Key opportunities for 2022-2026 to integrate climate change responses in efforts to protect and restore floodplains and estuaries 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 goal of increasing functioning habitat in the Puget Sound region by preventing fragmentation of rivers, floodplains, and estuaries, removing or changing the management of levees, floodgates, tidegates, roads, existing development, and other barriers in floodplains and estuaries; and restoring floodplains, tidal wetlands, and estuaries through multi-benefit approaches (i.e., integrated floodplain management). Indicators of success include:
This is a candidate progress indicator that would track the total acres of floodplain and estuary protected, and restored to functional conditions. This indicator is under development.
No reported data available
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
<p>This indicator measures the amount (acres and percent) of estuarine surface area in functional condition in Puget Sound’s 16 large river deltas. Estuary function is measured by the extent of connected tidal wetlands. Functional estuaries provide many ecosystem services and are critical to the recovery of the region’s salmon populations.</p>
Floodplain function is assessed using connectivity, land cover and land use for the 17 major rivers of Puget Sound. Areas that have natural land cover and unrestricted river flow are expected to be the most functional and provide the most ecosystem services. Floodplain areas with non-natural land cover and restricted river flow due to constraints (e.g. roads, railroads, levees) will have impaired or loss of floodplain function.
<p>This indicator measures the number of pocket estuaries and embayments that are accessible to juvenile salmon.</p>
No reported data available