Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems: A Guide for Puget Sound Planners to Understand Watershed Processes
This practical one day workshop will provide guidance for planners, resource managers, and consultants on how to better protect aquatic ecosystems, such as lakes, rivers, wetlands, and estuaries, by including information about watershed processes in resource management plans and regulatory actions. Watershed processes means the delivery, movement, and loss of water, sediment, nutrients, toxins, pathogens, and large woody debris. You will be guided through the application of five steps that qualitatively describe these processes, including mapping of areas of the landscape that are important or key for maintaining watershed processes. Finally, you will be shown how to use this information to identify areas that are suitable for protection or restoration. "Hands on" examples will be used throughout the class to clearly illustrate application of the methods.
Link to guidance:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/landscape-tool/home/landscape_home.html
Lunch is provided.
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