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<br /> <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />Chapter 2 27 <br />March 7, 2016 <br /> Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners Shoreline Master Program Adopting Ordinance <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program Exhibit A | March 2016 | Page 27 of 339 <br />plant species that is of primary importance to fish and wildlife (such as oak <br />woodlands or eelgrass meadows). A priority habitat may also be described by a <br />successional stage (such as old growth and mature forests). Alternatively, a priority <br />habitat may consist of a specific habitat element (such as talus slopes, caves, <br />snags) of key value to fish and wildlife. A priority habitat may contain priority and/or <br />non-priority fish and wildlife (WAC 173-26-020(28)). <br />67. "Priority species" means species requiring protective measures and/or <br />management guidelines to ensure their persistence at genetically viable population <br />levels. Priority species are those that meet any of the criteria listed in WAC 173-26- <br />020(29). <br />68. "Program" see definition for "Master program." <br />69. "Provisions" means policies, regulations, standards, guideline criteria or <br />environment designations. <br />70. "Public interest" means the interest shared by the citizens of the state or <br />community at large in the affairs of government, or some interest by which their <br />rights or liabilities are affected including, but not limited to, an effect on public <br />property or on health, safety, or general welfare resulting from a use or <br />development. <br />71. "Qualified professional" means a person with experience and training with <br />expertise appropriate for the relevant subject. A qualified professional must have <br />obtained a B.S. or B.A. degree or have appropriate education and experience in <br />biology, soil science, engineering, environmental studies, fisheries, geology, <br />geomorphology, or related field. <br />72. "Rehabilitation" means a type of restoration action intended to repair natural or <br />historic functions and processes. Activities could involve breaching a dike to <br />reconnect wetlands to a floodplain or other activities that restore the natural water <br />regime. <br />73. "Restore," "restoration" or "ecological restoration" means the re-establishment <br />or upgrading of impaired ecological shoreline processes or functions. This may be <br />accomplished through measures including, but not limited to, re-vegetation, removal <br />of intrusive shoreline structures and removal or treatment of toxic materials. <br />Restoration does not imply a requirement for returning the shoreline area to <br />aboriginal or pre-European settlement conditions. <br />74. "Riverine erosion hazard areas" are located within the lateral extent of likely <br />watercourse channel movement due to bank destabilization and erosion, rapid <br />incision, and shifts in location of watercourse channels. Riverine erosion hazard <br />areas are also referred to as channel migration zones (CMZs).