J-2. Ecosystem and Watershed (Ecosystem) Goal, Continued OBJECTIVES PERFORMANCE MEASURES MONITORING METHODS Protect and recover threatened, Increasing number of management programs and The District will coordinate with local agencies endangered and sensitive species projects with the primary benefit to improve such as the County Planning Department, Land through habitat restoration, stream threatened, endangered, and sensitive species Conservancy, and Resource Conservation flow management, and fish passage corridors. districts to track miles of additional steam or restoration. land opened to species habitat or migration; miles of additional stream or watershed corridor restored and the decrease in threatened, endangered, and/or sensitive species populations. Reduce impacts of invasive species by Increasing number of studies and management The District will coordinate with local agencies removal and/or other and/or prevention programs and projects such as the County Agricultural Commissioner’s management/control methods to established to reduce invasive species or Office and Resource Conservation districts to promote healthy ecosystems. establish native species populations. track the number of studies and management and/or prevention programs and projects Decreasing number of invasive species problems. established to reduce invasive species or establish native species populations and the number of invasive species problems. Increase monitoring and promote Existence of monitoring and research programs The District will inventory climate change research programs to obtain a greater that identify the long-term effects of climate monitoring efforts and the extent to which the understanding of the long-term effects change and greenhouse gas emissions on the long-term effects are understood for the of climate change and greenhouse gas Region’s watersheds and ecosystems. Region as a part of the IRWM Plan’s 5-year emissions on the Region’s watersheds update cycle. and ecosystems.
J-2. Ecosystem and Watershed (Ecosystem) Goal, Continued OBJECTIVES PERFORMANCE MEASURES MONITORING METHODS Protect and recover threatened, endangered and sensitive species through habitat restoration, stream flow management, and fish passage restoration. Increasing number of management programs and projects with the primary benefit to improve threatened, endangered, and sensitive species corridors. The District will coordinate with local agencies such as the County Planning Department, Land Conservancy, and Resource Conservation districts to track miles of additional steam or land opened to species habitat or migration; miles of additional stream or watershed corridor restored and the decrease in threatened, endangered, and/or sensitive species populations. Reduce impacts of invasive species by removal and/or other management/control methods to promote healthy ecosystems. Increasing number of studies and management and/or prevention programs and projects established to reduce invasive species or native species populations. Decreasing number of invasive species problems. The District will coordinate with local agencies such as the County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office and Resource Conservation districts to track the number of studies and management and/or prevention programs and projects established to reduce invasive species or native species populations and the number of invasive species problems. Increase monitoring and promote research programs to obtain a greater understanding of the long-term effects of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions on the Region’s watersheds and ecosystems. Existence of monitoring and research programs that identify the long-term effects of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions on the Region’s watersheds and ecosystems. The District will inventory climate change monitoring efforts and the extent to which the long-term effects are understood for the Region as a part of the IRWM Plan’s 5-year update cycle. establish establish
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