Transcript Lowland Assessment Coffee Klatches

Lowland Assessment
Coffee Klatches
Update on Spring 2005 Meetings
Averages
•90 on each mailing list
•16% attendance
•13 attendees at each meeting (couples treated as 1 attendee)
Number of Landowners
Coffee Klatch Attendance
180
160
160
140
Contacts
Attendees
123
120
100
80
85
76
60
40
20
43
11%
8
10%
12
13%
26%
11
21
53
19%
16
19%
10
0
Echo
Kentuck
Larson
N Slough
Sub-basin
Palouse
Willanch
Data Collected from Landowners
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“What do you like about living here?”
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Resource Concerns
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Vision for Future (10-20 years)
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Top Three Concerns (anonymous)
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Also conducted Outreach Survey
Sample from Kentuck
“Why live here?”
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Rural area, pastoral / pasture scenery.
Privacy
Fish runs, fish presence
Trees grow well here
Good water quality in Kentuck – lack of bacteria
Sample from Kentuck
Vision for the Future (10-20 yrs)
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No change
More fish
More restoration on creeks, ditches restored to
creeks.
Better drainage
Retain agricultural / forestry feel for area
Continue to provide rock for area
Results of Top 3 Concerns
grouped into larger categories
Kentuck Top Three Concerns
0
2
4
6
8
Environmental Quality
Restoration
Land Management
First
Second
Third
Land Use Policies
Social Concerns
Number of Reponses
How data will be used in Assessment
Resource issues “set the scene” for subbasin introductions
 Integrated with Limiting Factors Analysis
in developing Restoration Strategy
 Integral to Restoration Prioritization and
Implementation
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