Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program Cross-Partnership - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program Cross-Partnership Advisory Group Meeting

Patricia Jatczak, WDFW & Maggie McKeown, WADNR April 22, 2013

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Marine and Nearshore LO

Funds actions that advance the Action Agenda & Puget Sound recovery by protecting and restoring marine and nearshore habitat & ecosystem functions

• Effective Regulation & Stewardship
• Capital Investment
• High Priority Threats: Oil Spills, Invasive Species
• Cross-Cutting
• Adaptive Management

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Current Investments

Strategic Capital Investments

• Restoration: $3,851,000
• River delta/coastal inlet
• Marine (derelict net removal)
• Beach (pending - up to 8 armoring removals)
• Permanent protection: $674,000
• Acquisition of bluff-backed beaches

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Current Investments

Effective Regulation & Stewardship

• Regulatory improvement: $2,683,000
• Improving implementation & enforcement
• Compliance assessment & pilots (pending)
• Stewardship/outreach: $663,500
• Outreach and awareness building
• Tools to motivate stewardship (pending)

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Current Investments

High Priority Threats & Cross-cutting

• Address high priority threats: $1,074,000
• Oil spill prevention, preparedness & response
• Invasive species prevention
• Toxics in biota

Adaptive Management

• Fill key knowledge gaps: $1,468,500
• Assessing marine and nearshore risks
• Providing critical information for management

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Major Themes Feedback & Responses

Major Theme Ideas

Permanent protection of priority habitat Salmon recovery plan priorities & restoration PSNERP restoration projects Marine protected area/reserves work Invasive species early detection & monitoring Harvest and hatchery reform Improve regulatory protection & enforcement Marine riparian forest enhancement Monitoring and science priorities Local oil spill preparedness Cross-cutting work Local priorities/LNTAs Actual removals of armoring

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Proposed R4 Investments

Stewardship

• 1. Building incentive programs to reduce shoreline

armoring

Permanent protection

• 2. Protection of bluff-backed beaches or other high

priority habitat

High priority threats

• 3. Invasive species (green crab) early detection and

monitoring

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Proposed R4 Investments

Permanent protection of high-priority habitat

• Partner with land conservation programs to provide

funds to establish long-term agreements

• Focus on bluff-backed beaches and other high-

priority nearshore habitat

• Potentially leverage incentive, behavior change

investments to increase number of participating landowners Advances Action Agenda NTA B2.1.1 (in HSI)

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Proposed R4 Investments

Invasive species early detection and monitoring

• Establish early detection and monitoring program for

invasive green crab to prevent impacts to resources such as shellfish and eelgrass

• Project will train & provide equipment to volunteers
• Focus on partnerships to sustain the benefits beyond

life of the grant Advances Action Agenda NTA B5.3.2 (in HSI)

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Habitat Strategic Initiative

Priorities of the Habitat Strategic Initiative, and Grants that Support Sub-Strategies and/or NTAs Sub- Strategy NTA Current LO Investments Round 4 Considerations B1.2 1

Supporting local governments to adopt and implement protective plans, policies, programs Already supporting sub-strategy + NTA

B1.3 2

Several projects that improve implementation, enforcement of laws, regulations, and permits Already supporting sub-strategy Already underway, NTA outside scope

B2.1 1

Three acquisitions that protect priority nearshore processes and habitat

Addressed in R4

Already supporting sub-strategy + NTA

B2.2 1

Several prioritized nearshore and estuary restoration projects (including one PSNERP) Already supporting sub-strategy + NTA

B2.3 1

Restoration projects removing shoreline armoring, and development of incentives and social marketing strategy

Addressed in R4

Already supporting sub-strategy + NTA

B5.3 2

Two projects support prevention, response to introduction, spread of aquatic invasive species

Addressed in R4

Already supporting sub-strategy

C8.1 2

One project advances prevention and reduction

• f the risks of large oil spills

Already supporting sub-strategy + NTA

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Proposed R5/R6 Investments

Protect and restore priority habitat

• Protect high-priority habitat under threat from

development

• PSNERP or salmon recovery restoration projects, or

designs funded in R3

• Additional marine investment based on Marine Risk

Assessment

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Proposed R5/R6 Investments

Disseminate and leverage early results

• Enhance and institutionalize effective regulation and

stewardship strategies

• Disseminate results, tools funded by Grant Program
• Co-locate projects and use multiple tools to achieve

restoration across ownership boundaries, towards whole drift cell

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Discussion

Permanent protection

• How can we ensure success in identifying willing

landowners and securing agreements?

Invasive species early detection & monitoring

• How can we engage partners in order to achieve long-

term benefits from this investment?

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Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Grant Program

Wrap-up

Please send your comments on our R4 proposal to Kevin by May 8th.

Thank you for your input!