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Describe Shoreline Management Issues

1. Identify shoreline management issues of concern

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The next step is to describe management issues that have or may in the future affect these shorelines. These are indications that ecosystem processes have or will be altered and shoreline functions are impaired.  Click HERE for list of questions to help you extract relevant information from reports, models, monitoring studies and maps gathered in your inventory.

2. Determine relationships

Click HERE for a table that provides an indication of ecosystem-wide processes that may be related to the ecological impairment within your jurisdiction.  It also lists reports and studies that address these particular shoreline issues and links to approaches for using map & images as indicators of ecological function. Summarize the issues identified in existing reports that impact your shorelines, and map the general location and causes when known. Include both historical and recent activities that have impacted, and particularly those that continue to influence the shoreline.  

3. Identify measures to protect/restore

The next step is to use these maps and existing reports to document what things you can and can’t affect with your SMP. This will help focus the scope of your analysis.  Click HERE for a table that illustrates some common management options to address the issues.

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