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CHAPTER 5. CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT <br />5-8 <br />provide the mechanism for identifying critical assets, systems, networks and functions; <br />understanding threats; assessing vulnerabilities and consequences; prioritizing protection <br />initiatives; and enhancing information sharing efforts and applying protective measures within <br />and across sectors. <br />• Resilient Washington State: A Framework for Minimizing Loss and Improving Statewide <br />Recovery after an Earthquake (2012) <br />Written by the Washington State Emergency Management Council’s Seismic Safety <br />Committee, this report provides a general assessment of the recovery capacity of the state’s <br />major systems and infrastructure, including estimates of the time it is likely to take for each <br />component to recover following a serious earthquake, a target timeframe for each component <br />recovery, and the top 10 recommendations for improving statewide resilience. <br />• Comprehensive plans for each incorporated planning partner <br />An assessment of all planning partners’ regulatory, technical and financial capabilities to <br />implement hazard mitigation initiatives is presented in Chapter 18 and in the individual <br />jurisdiction-specific annexes in Volume 2. <br />5.2.2 Nongovernmental Resources <br />In addition to extensive governmental resources and the planning partners detailed in Volume 2, Kittitas <br />County has access to many organizations that may provide resources related to hazard mitigation. The <br />following are organizations whose work relates to land conservation, resilience, climate impacts, or <br />natural disasters, and has applicability to hazard mitigation in Kittitas County: <br />– Washington Wild <br />Washington Wild defends, protects and restores wild lands and waters in Washington State <br />through advocacy, education and civic engagement. By educating, empowering and mobilizing <br />communities, Washington Wild builds powerful grassroots networks that has helped protect <br />nearly three million acres of wild lands and waters throughout the state. <br />– Kittitas Conservation Trust <br />Formed in 2002, the mission of the Kittitas Conservation Trust (KCT) is to protect and enhance <br />fish and wildlife habitat, open space, and recreational assets in the upper Yakima River basin. <br />KCT works together with interested landowners and governmental agency partners to identify <br />high-value conservation resources in the basin. <br />– Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition <br />A group of stakeholders in Kittitas County that meets to discuss goals for community wildfire <br />resiliency and to share, learn, and coordinate efforts toward meeting these goals. Goals include <br />updating the Kittitas County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), mapping <br />accomplishments and priority needs to improve wildfire resiliency, modeling fire simulations <br />for high priority neighborhoods as part of the CWPP and GIS projects, and conducting <br />community outreach that results in greater engagement and participation in wildfire risk <br />reduction. <br />– The Nature Conservancy – Washington <br />The Nature Conservancy has helped to preserve more than 800,000 acres in Washington, and <br />is currently stewarding more than 100,000 acres. Included in these areas is the Yakima River <br />Preserve in Kittitas County, which follows the Yakima River as it runs from Ellensburg south <br />to Yakima.