Watershed Management Plan - Mason County

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Acknowledgments The WRIA 16 Planning Unit, active since 1999, deserves primary credit for developing this watershed plan. Through countless hours of research, discussions, and meetings, the Planning Unit initiated or contributed to the findings presented in this report and developed the numerous recommendations. The following table lists the WRIA 16 Planning Unit members at the time of the plan’s adoption. Planning Unit Members Primary Representative Alternate Representative Initiating Governments Jefferson County David Sullivan Tami Pokorny Mason County Tim Sheldon Pam Bennett-Cumming Mason County PUD #1 Debbie Knipschield Ron Gold Washington State Dept. of Ecology Phil Wiatrak Skokomish Tribe Guy Milller Marty Ereth Jeff Heinis Jack Turner Other Voting Members Agriculture Interests Vacant Citizen Interests – Jefferson County George Sickel Bud Schindler Citizen Interests – Mason County Barbara Levette Development Interests Doc Allott Environmental Interests Constance Ibsen Forestry Interests Vacant Growth Management Interests Warren Dawes Jefferson County PUD #1 Bill Graham Wayne King Lake Issues George Fisher Port Districts Frank Benavente Realtors and Builders Vacant Recreation Interests Frances Arnold Shellfish Industry Interests Henry Bloomfield Non-Voting Members (Ex Officio) Hood Canal Coordinating Council Dave Christensen Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group Dan Hannafious Neil Werner Mason County Conservation District Shannon Kirby Puget Sound Action Team Stuart Glasoe Washington Sea Grant Teri King WA State Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Bob Burkle WA State Dept. of Transportation Ken Stone Susan Gulick of Sound Resolutions served as project manager and facilitator for the WRIA 16 Planning Unit. Peter Erickson of Cascadia Consulting Group was the primary plan writer, with contributions from Susan Gulick. Marley Shoaf, Laura Blackmore, Christy Shelton, and Colleen Thumlert of Cascadia Consulting Group also contributed to the plan, as did several Planning Unit members. Bill Graham of the Jefferson County PUD #1 took the photos on the cover, as well as most of the photos within this watershed plan. Mike Woodall at the Washington State Department of Ecology produced the full-page maps.
WRIA 16 Summary of Watershed Management Plan Summary of Watershed Plan The Skokomish-Dosewallips watershed – or Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 16 – is located on the eastern slope of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. Bordering the western and southern shores of Hood Canal, the watershed’s 670 square miles of diverse landscape cover an area from the snow-capped Olympic Mountains at over 7,000 feet high to the low-lying floodplains of the Skokomish River Valley. A rural area with a growing population and a strong summer tourist season, WRIA 16 has approximately 8,000 permanent residents, most of which reside along the shore of Hood Canal. The largest communities in the watershed are Brinnon, Lilliwaup, Hoodsport, Potlatch, and Union. WRIA 16 includes several rivers and streams that flow from headwaters in the Olympic Mountains down to Hood Canal, which is a natural, glaciercarved fjord that is part of Puget Sound. The largest rivers in the watershed are the Skokomish, Dosewallips, Hamma Hamma, and Duckabush rivers. Many smaller streams, some of which are intermittent, also flow directly into Hood Canal. Annual precipitation ranges from 250 inches per year in parts of the Olympic Mountains to approximately 60 inches per year along Hood Canal. The southern shore of Hood Canal, between Union and the western outskirts of Belfair, is also considered in this plan. Although technically part of the neighboring Kennedy-Goldsborough watershed (WRIA 14), Hood Canal’s southern shore is being considered here through agreement with the WRIA 14 Planning Unit to help consolidate planning for Hood Canal and the nearshore environment. The economy in WRIA 16 relies largely on shellfish harvesting, commercial forestry, tourism, Christmas-tree farming, and some agriculture. Many WRIA 16 residents commute to employment outside WRIA 16 in communities such as Shelton or Port Townsend. The Watershed Planning Process In 1998, the Washington State Legislature passed the Watershed Management Act, codified in the Revised Code of Washington, Title 90, Chapter 82 (RCW 90.82). This law focuses on addressing water quantity, water quality, fish habitat, and instream flow at the local level. Under the act, the state grants funding to a Planning Unit, consisting of public agencies and non-governmental members, in each watershed. In the Skokomish-Dosewallips watershed (WRIA 16), the Planning Unit consists of a broad mix of entities, including Mason and Jefferson counties, the Skokomish Tribe 1 , The Port of Hoodsport, Mason County Public Utility District #1, local community groups, citizen representatives, and other environmental, development, and recreation interests. The WRIA 16 WRIA 16 includes snow-capped mountains and lowland floodplains The WRIA 16 Planning Unit has been working on watershed planning since 1999 1 For a full discussion of the Tribe’s participation see the footnote on page 5. Final Plan for County Adoption – May 11, 2006 page i
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