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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />6.16 Shoreline restoration and habitat enhancement <br />A. Policies <br />1. Restoration actions should improve shoreline ecological functions and processes as <br />well as shoreline features and should promote sustainability of sensitive and/or <br />regionally important plant, fish, and/or wildlife species and their habitats. <br />2. Restoration and enhancement of shorelines should be designed using principles of <br />landscape and conservation ecology and should restore or enhance chemical, <br />physical, and biological watershed processes that create and sustain shoreline <br />habitat structures and functions. <br />3. Provide, where feasible and desirable, restoration of degraded areas along the <br />shorelines of Kittitas County. <br />4. Restoration should be used to complement and not take the place of the shoreline <br />protection strategies required by this Program to achieve the greatest overall <br />ecological benefit. <br />5. Consider opportunities to seek funding from state, federal, private and other sources <br />to implement planned restoration, enhancement, and acquisition projects. <br />6. Develop processing guidelines that will streamline the review of restoration only <br />projects. <br />7. Encourage public and private shoreline owners to promote the proliferation of native, <br />noninvasive wildlife, fish, and plants. <br />L Ensure that long-term maintenance and monitoring of restoration sites is included in <br />the original permitting of the project. <br />9. Support voluntary and cooperative restoration efforts between local, state, and <br />federal public agencies, tribes, non-profit organizations, and landowners to improve <br />shorelines with impaired ecological functions and/or processes. <br />10. Restoration projects should be coordinated with applicable local public utility and <br />conservation districts. <br />1 1. Restoration should be integrated with and should support other natural resource <br />management efforts in Kittitas County. <br />l2.Jurisdictions should coordinate with state resource agencies to develop educational <br />materials which promote the maintenance and restoration of shoreline functions. <br />Educational materials shall provide resources for a variety of scenarios and trends <br />occurring within the shoreline that is reflected in the inventory and analysis, such as: <br />Chapter 6 <br />March 7, 2016 <br />128