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Under this ordinance, subdivision of land or development that removes 20, sq. The Forest Conservation Ordinance establishes options for mitigation which include on-site retention or planting, off-site retention or planting, natural regeneration, and a payment-in-lieu of planting or retention fee. The County, in cooperation with the Washington Soil Conservation District, has successfully developed a program where the payment-in-lieu of planting funds are used for easement purchases and plantings in sensitive environmental areas.
The collected funds provide the opportunity to plant and then protect, by easement, large contiguous areas of forest rather than promote small-scattered forested areas in order to obtain optimum benefit to the environment.
Scope: Any owner of five or more contiguous acres of forest land may enter the program. House sites, crop land and other non-forest open space is not eligible.
Open land that was recently planted to forest tree seedlings can be included in the program after one growing season. Land used to grow Christmas trees is also eligible if the trees will be cut at harvest. Of those, , acres were retained, 71, acres were cleared and 21, acres were planted with new forest. In other words, at least twice as many acres were protected or planted as were cleared. Any activity requiring an application for a subdivision, grading permit or sediment control permit on areas 40, square feet approximately 1 acre or greater is subject to the Forest Conservation Act and will require a Forest Conservation Plan prepared by a licensed forester, licensed landscape architect, or other qualified professional UNLESS you are subject to exemptions determined by the State FCA Coordinator or your local Forest Conservation Program Coordinator.
Individuals who are not licensed foresters or licensed landscape architects may become "Qualified Professionals" capable of conducting forest delineations or writing conservation plans by meeting certain educational and work-experience criteria and completing a department approved forest conservation course.
Final approval of Qualified Professional status is determined by the state FCA coordinator upon receipt of your Qualified Professional application and notification of your successful course completion.
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