Bibliography on Vancouver Lake Watershed, including Burnt Bridge Creek, Flushing Channel, Lake River, and Salmon Creek |
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Bibliography of Vancouver Lake watershed, including Burnt Bridge Creek, Flushing Channel, Lake River, and Salmon Creek
A history of restoration efforts for Vancouver Lake
DeBoni
& Associates. 1986c. Vancouver Lake Lowlands: Conservation and
Development Plan
Executive Summary: The Conservation and Development Plan is a Plan developed by and for the major property owners of the area which include The Port of Vancouver, Alcoa, Hans Egger, and Al Fazio.
The Plan is intended to project ultimate use of the area, and provide a balance between Industrial, Recreational and Environmental opportunities identified within the Lowlands Area.
Clark County is currently completing a "subarea" plan analysis of several critical areas as a part of the Five Year Update of the Comprehensive Plan, which was adopted in 1979. The Conservation and Development Plan is presented to the County as an "action plan" to carry out identified Community and property owner objectives, and submit recommended changes to the County's plan.
Since The Lowlands area has been shown to be the only area remaining in the County suitable for Heavy Industrial expansion, the Conservation and Development Plan recommends that several alternative areas be reserved for future industrial expansion, including specific provisions to insure the availability of necessary land to accommodate a future terminal 3, bulk loading facility in close proximity to the deep water channel at the north end of the area.
The "I" symbols displayed on the County Comprehensive Plan map together with their description within the Plan Text are seen as a vital element to continue the long term planning for utilities and other public services that will become necessary for both industrial development and recreation development. It is also held as "unlikely" by the Plan, that adequate funding will become available to support needed public services for parks alone, without further development to share the costs.
An increasing public demand for access to river and lake frontage calls for increasing size and capacity of public parks in the area, along with a separation of recreational and non-recreational auto traffic, which is rapidly becoming a problem, along with it attendant problems of trespass and vandalism.
The wetlands and wildlife habitat found in the Lowlands area is part of a critical inventory of such land throughout North America that is being continually diminished to accommodate community development needs. Additionally, the Lowlands includes one of the largest Heron Rookeries within the state of Washington.
The Conservation and Development Plan suggests that sensitive treatment and preservation of these important natural resources will require a coordinated community effort with active property owner initiative and support.
Development of an ongoing review process which includes the State Game Department and US Fish and Wildlife Service, will insure that any development plan will include a "workable" mitigation program, that will insure an acre for acre replacment of wetlands and continuing protection of the rookery.
The conclusion of the Plan is that with the attached select changes to the County Comprehensive Plan Text, no further changes to Plan map are necessary to enable this active planning process to proceed. Further, the regulatory provisions of the zoning process are unlikely to afford the necessary protection of wildlife in the Lowlands.
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