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Below are the policies for activities on Commercial Forest lands. <br />RR-P136: The County should promote active management of lands to create and maintain healthy forests <br />through support of related infrastructure. <br />RR-Pl 37: Classification and designation of Forest Lands of Long-Term Commercial Significance shall be <br />made to maintain and enhance natural resource-based industries, including productive timber industries. <br />RR-Pl 38: Any proposal for de-designation of commercial forestlands shall be subject to a cumulative <br />impacts analysis, including the size and ownership of the commercial forestlands remaining in the County, <br />the needs of the local forest products industry and impacts to those needs by the proposed de-designation, <br />and the potential benefits that may result from the proposed de-designation including higher property taxes <br />and economic stimulus. <br />RR-Pl 39: The County should encourage incentives and alternatives to keep working forests viable by <br />considering when feasible emerging markets such as carbon sequestration, Transfer of Development Rights, <br />Bio-fuel and bio-energy production that offset the loss of the traditional log and special forest product <br />markets. <br />RR-P140: Resource activities performed in accordance with County, State and federal laws should not be <br />subject to legal actions as public nuisances. <br />RR-P141: The County should support and encourage the maintenance of commercial forest lands in timber <br />and current use property tax classifications consistent with RCW 84.28, 84.33 and 84.34. <br />RR-P142: Kittitas County will support local forest landowners seeking regulatory relief in order to help them <br />remain economically viable. <br />RR-P143: Land use activities within or adjacent to commercial forest land will be sited and designed to <br />minimize conflicts with forest management and other activities on commercial forestlands. <br />RR-P144: Kittitas County will encourage rural <br />developments in the Wild land Urban Interface (WUI) and <br />the owners of adjacent commercial forest lands to <br />develop Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs). <br />RR -P145: When appropriate, the County will encourage <br />cluster developments on adjacent non-commercial <br />forestlands so that open space buffers adjacent <br />forestland from development. <br />RR-P146: Kittitas County will advocate active <br />management of Federal and State forest lands to create <br />and maintain healthy, fire-safe forests. <br />Page 712