Working Buffer Pilot Project
left|200pxThis effort by Snohomish Conservation District, NOAA Restoration Center, and Puget Sound Partnership aims to identify property owners that want to redesign their land use to both increase agricultural viability and productivity, while increasing Riparian Buffer Functions, while retaining their property rights and maximizing the private use of their lands. Our goal is to help private land owners understand and use of the diverse and confusing array of programs and regulations that affect their decision making, both supporting implementation of good projects, and providing feedback to government programs on how they can improve their practices to meet the needs of rural communities.
The project completed outreach and survey activities in Fall and Winter of 2013-14, developed outreach materials in winter 2014-15, and installed a pilot site in the 2015-16 planting season. Ongoing work is integrated into Coordinated Investment.
Relationships
- broader: legal;agriculture;aquatic buffer
- involves organization: cd
- located in: snohomish county
- located in: snohomish;stillaguamish
- related to: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- related to: Cordilleran Ice Sheet
- related to: Puget lowland forests
- related to: agroforestry
- related to: carr et al 2014 snohomish landowner buffer preference survey
- related to: cereghino 2015 working buffers info sheet
- related to: dittbrenner et al 2015 working buffers analysis
- related to: harvesting surface water for irrigation
- related to: noaa restoration center
- related to: nrcs
- related to: snohomish conservation district