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Service Description: These analyses were developed as part of the Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project (Nearshore Project) and are intended to organize and broadly guide the scope and focus of capital investment for protection and restoration of ecosystem processes in the Puget Sound nearshore. These strategies reflect the collaboration of the local, state, tribal, federal, and non-profit partners engaged in the Nearshore Project.
The Nearshore Project identifies four planning objectives necessary to reach the goal of recovering lost ecosystem services. A workgroup of the Nearshore Project Implementation and Science Team members were then charged with analyzing available data to determine where in Puget Sound those objectives could best be met and to define a strategic approach for nearshore protection and restoration. Due to the risks of partial restoration these activities focus on protecting processes where they remain undegraded, and restoring sites where critical processes can be substantively restored at the scale of their operation. Each Puget Sound sub-basin is unique in its historic attributes and pattern of degradation, suggesting a similarly individualized approach to restoration and protection. Sites were identified at the scale of drift cells (hundreds of meters to kilometers), or coastal inlet watersheds (from less than one to tens of square kilometers). Deltas and coastal inlets are more strongly structured by freshwater inputs, while beaches and barrier embayments are more strongly structured by sediment supply and transport. Within the framework provided by our four strategies we develop metrics to compare sites. We rank sites based on their size and complexity, as an estimate of their relative historic ability to deliver ecosystem services (i.e. Potential). We rank sites based on the estimated loss of those historic services (i.e. Degradation). We identify risk factors like the presence of active railroad, or large breakwater jetty systems that are likely to affect planning. Finally we organize sites into groups that are similar in the intensity and character of their potential or degradation, for the purpose of defining a range of management cases. Each strategy presents a set of challenges and uncertainties, as well as a finite set of opportunities for restoration and protection.
Please refer to the Strategies for Nearshore Protection and Restoration in Puget Sound report for more detailed information.
Additional information on the project including existing reports can be found at www.pugetsoundnearshore.org.
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Comments: These analyses were developed as part of the Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project (Nearshore Project) and are intended to organize and broadly guide the scope and focus of capital investment for protection and restoration of ecosystem processes in the Puget Sound nearshore. These strategies reflect the collaboration of the local, state, tribal, federal, and non-profit partners engaged in the Nearshore Project.
The Nearshore Project identifies four planning objectives necessary to reach the goal of recovering lost ecosystem services. A workgroup of the Nearshore Project Implementation and Science Team members were then charged with analyzing available data to determine where in Puget Sound those objectives could best be met and to define a strategic approach for nearshore protection and restoration. Due to the risks of partial restoration these activities focus on protecting processes where they remain undegraded, and restoring sites where critical processes can be substantively restored at the scale of their operation. Each Puget Sound sub-basin is unique in its historic attributes and pattern of degradation, suggesting a similarly individualized approach to restoration and protection. Sites were identified at the scale of drift cells (hundreds of meters to kilometers), or coastal inlet watersheds (from less than one to tens of square kilometers). Deltas and coastal inlets are more strongly structured by freshwater inputs, while beaches and barrier embayments are more strongly structured by sediment supply and transport. Within the framework provided by our four strategies we develop metrics to compare sites. We rank sites based on their size and complexity, as an estimate of their relative historic ability to deliver ecosystem services (i.e. Potential). We rank sites based on the estimated loss of those historic services (i.e. Degradation). We identify risk factors like the presence of active railroad, or large breakwater jetty systems that are likely to affect planning. Finally we organize sites into groups that are similar in the intensity and character of their potential or degradation, for the purpose of defining a range of management cases. Each strategy presents a set of challenges and uncertainties, as well as a finite set of opportunities for restoration and protection.
Please refer to the Strategies for Nearshore Protection and Restoration in Puget Sound report for more detailed information.
Additional information on the project including existing reports can be found at www.pugetsoundnearshore.org.
Subject: This polygon dataset contains metrics used to estimate the Potential and Degradation of beach sites mapped at the extent of the nearshore zone. All Shoreline Process Units (SPUs) where Bluff-Backed Beach (BLB) is found under historic or current condi
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Keywords: Beach,Washington State,Drainage Units,Process Units,Nearshore,User-defined Spatial Units,Shoreline,Sub-basin,Intertidal,Puget Sound,Metrics,Potential,Degradation,Strategic Restoration
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