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Approach 1: Short-term Plan, Cont.
Desired outcomes, actions and milestones to restore and protect meadows to achieve desired conditions.
Desired Outcomes
Actions
Milestones
W/R
Priority meadows for action identi ed
Assess potential bene ts or effects of restoration on each set of resources for each meadow at site and landscape scales. Evaluate whether these bene ts will achieve desired conditions.
Landscape and site scale assessment of possibility of achieving desired conditions for each meadow.
W
Identify meadows important for biodiversity, threatened and endangered species, rare species, climate refugia, connectivity, and ecosystem services. Overlay important meadows with development pressure to determine priorities.
Meadow spatial analysis completed with priority ranking based on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
R/W
Prioritize meadows for restoration.
Annotated list of priority meadows for restoration (watershed or landscape).
R/W
Priority meadows restored and adaptively managed
Secure funding for pre- restoration monitoring and initial project designs.
Suf cient funding to perform pre-restoration monitoring and initial project designs available to practitioners.
W
Develop restoration, monitoring and adaptive management plans for high priority meadows.
Complete restoration, monitoring and adaptive management plans.
W
Perform pre-restoration monitoring to establish baseline for soils, hydrology, and biodiversity at site and landscape scales.
Pre- restoration monitoring reports.
W
Report on landscape scale conditions or processes that currently protect, impact, improve or depend upon meadow function for target meadow (both above and below).
Landscape scale condition report or section of existing conditions report.
W
Re ne and revise, as needed, restoration design based on ndings of pre-restoration monitoring.
Re ned restoration design as needed.
W
Secure funding for permits, implementation, monitoring, and adaptive management.
Funding suf cient to perform permitting and full implementation, monitoring, and adaptive management.
W
Secure necessary permits and address compliance obligations.
Necessary local, state and federal permits; Compliance obligations addressed.
W/R
Implement restoration actions.
Number of projects successfully implemented.
W
Post-project effectiveness monitoring to assess restoration actions relative to established objectives and desired conditions.
Evaluation of the project to meet desired conditions and outcomes.
W
Based on post-project monitoring ndings, design adaptive management actions as needed. Priority meadows.
As needed, adaptive management actions are identi ed to achieve desired conditions.
W
Subject to permitting, compliance and funding, implement adaptive management actions.
Adaptive management actions implemented.
W
Table 1, Cont. Fourth column indicates local watershed (W) or regional scale (R)
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