Healthy Watersheds Goal. Maintain local watersheds at optimal health across a range of landscape contexts. - Healthy Waters Outcome: State identified healthy waters remain healthy
Healthy Watersheds Goal. Protect state-identified healthy waters and watersheds, recognized for their exceptional quality and high ecological value. •
Healthy Watersheds Goal. Protect state-identified healthy waters and watersheds, recognized for their exceptional quality and high ecological value. • Healthy Waters Outcome Land Conservation Goal: Conserve landscapes treasured by citizens to maintain water quality and habitat; sustain working forests, farms and maritime communities; and conserve lands of cultural, indigenous and community value • Protected Lands Outcome Public Access Goal: Expand public access to the Bay and its tributaries through existing and new local, state and federal parks, refuges, reserves, trails and partner sites.
Healthy Watersheds Goal. Maintain local watersheds at optimal health across a range of landscape contexts. 5. Land Conservation Goal: Conserve landscapes treasured by citizens to maintain water quality and habitat; sustain working forests, farms and maritime communities; and conserve lands of cultural, indigenous and community value. 6.
Healthy Watersheds Goal. Maintain local watersheds at optimal health across a range of landscape contexts. MB recommends draft Healthy Watersheds Habitats Goal to PSC with minor revisions (forthcoming from GIT4).
Healthy Watersheds Goal. The Alliance strongly supports the goal of protecting and sustaining watersheds in good condition while restoring those that fall short of water quality and aquatic health goals (protect the best and restore the rest!). For some the word, protect may elicit the wrong meaning. We recommend: Sustain the health of watersheds that are currently recognized for their exceptional water quality and high ecological value. We suggest deleting the term “state‐identified”. We recognize that it serves to both narrow and clarify this goal but think it also may restrict its effectiveness. Eliminating this language could broaden the goal to allow outcomes to be more clearly identified including an outcome that specifically addresses state‐ specific designations but would also allow the incorporation of the land conservation outcome of “225,000 acres of wetlands and 695,000 acres of forest land of highest value for maintaining water quality.” Both of these land conservation outcomes are directly aimed at sustaining healthy watershed conditions and are more appropriate outcomes here than under land conservation. Since these targets (e.g. 695,000 acres of priority forest) were carried over from the earlier agreements and the 2007 EC Directive, the baseline for measuring accountability should be clarified and /or the outcome adjusted. Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, 7-10-13 GIT 4 RESOLVED GIT-Approved recommendation: Accept the recommended change to the goal language with the addition of "and/or" to read as: Sustain state-identified healthy waters and watersheds, recognized for their exceptional quality and/or high ecological value." Wetland and forest conservation could be included among management strategies for healthy watershed protection. Drinking water source protection could be a justification for states to identify a healthy water/watershed for protection. We also believe that a future strategy may be to integrate the protection of community drinking water sources with goals for water quality restoration. There is a need to raise the profile of source water protection (generally healthy watersheds) and integrate it with our restoration efforts. Most water systems are being managed by municipalities but source water protection is often separated from WIP or other efforts. This linkage has the potential to build new public support for the Bay restoration effort.
Healthy Watersheds Goal. Sustain state-identified healthy waters and watersheds, recognized for their exceptional quality and/or high ecological value. Draft – September 12, 2013 – Pre-Management Board Meeting Version • Healthy Waters Outcome: By 2025, 100% of state-identified currently healthy water and watersheds remain healthy. Land Conservation Goal: Conserve landscapes treasured by citizens in order to maintain water quality and habitat; sustain working forests, farms and maritime communities; and conserve lands of cultural, indigenous and community value. Comment [gb15]: CBC recommends adding baseline, e.g. “Tracking from a 2010 baseline…”
Healthy Watersheds Goal. Maintain local watersheds at optimal health across a range of landscape contexts. Outcome: • x
