| Work Element |
Work Element Association Status |
Description |
FY Start |
FY End |
Guidance ID |
Guidance |
Required / Optional |
Is Activated By Default |
Included in PI |
Supports PCSRF/PNSHP (Katz) |
PNSHP Metric Code |
PNSHP Metric |
| 47. Plant Vegetation |
Active |
Use during the first year (and only first year) of planting terrestrial or aquatic vegetation and/or seed (aerially, mechanically, and/or manually). Use for wildlife cover and forage enhancement, restoring native vegetative communities and habitat, including wildlife, protect pollinators, enhance or create pollinator habitat, erosion control and soil stabilization, roughness recruitment, shading, wildfire restoration, and rehabilitating removed roads/trails. Do not use for site stabilization/restoration immediately following construction. Post-construction planting/seeding should be a milestone in a construction work element.
All maintenance activities (irrigation, site prep, survival survey) which occur during the same contract period as planting/seeding should be included in this WE as milestones. See associated work elements and notes for this 47. Plant Vegetation for more guidance. |
2005 |
|
32 |
To calculate the length of riparian streambank habitat treated in miles, the measurement should reflect the length of the center of channel counted for the right side, if looking downstream; or left side looking downstream; or both, if both banks are treated. This excludes the length of streambank associated with unnamed tributaries, side channels or inlets.
- Riparian: Transition zone between aquatic and upland habitat typically within a river's floodplain. These habitats are related to and influenced by surface or subsurface waters, especially the margins of streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, seeps, and ditches between land and a stream and above the average high watermark, or bank full height. Plant communities along the river and lake margins are called riparian vegetation, characterized by hydrophilic plants. This includes floodplain habitat, which may be restored to properly functioning conditions. (This excludes floodplain habitat influenced by the tides, which is classified as "Estuarine Habitat" for Pisces.) |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
|
ITS Action Category:
Riparian Habitat Improvement
ITS Metric:
Miles of fencing
|
| 53. Remove Vegetation |
Active |
Removal of one or more plant species, or a number of individuals of a plant species, by mechanical, biological, and/or chemical means, or by controlled burn.
Target species are often exotic or non-native plants, naturalized plants, or undesirable native plants, all of which may be considered to be noxious, invasive or "weeds". Includes the removal of both aquatic and terrestrial plants as well as tree stand manipulation due to encroachment or to create forage openings. |
2008 |
|
373 |
To calculate the length of riparian bank habitat treated in miles, the measurement should reflect the center of channel counted for the right side, if looking downstream; or left side looking downstream; or both, if both banks are protected. This excludes the length of streambank associated with side channels or inlets.
- Riparian: Transition zone between aquatic and upland habitat typically within a river's floodplain. These habitats are related to and influenced by surface or subsurface waters, especially the margins of streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, seeps, and ditches between land and a stream and above the average high watermark, or bank full height. Plant communities along the river and lake margins are called riparian vegetation, characterized by hydrophilic plants. This includes floodplain habitat, which may be restored to properly functioning conditions. (This excludes floodplain habitat influenced by the tides, which is classified as "Estuarine Habitat" for Pisces.) |
Required |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
C.5.h.4 |
Miles of streambank treated for riparian plant removal/control |
ITS Action Category:
Riparian Habitat Improvement
ITS Metric:
Miles of fencing
|
| 197. Maintain/Remove Vegetation |
Active |
Maintain or remove all or part of an aquatic or terrestrial plant community. Use this WE for your first year of removing vegetation or any subsequent years of maintenance on the same land. Work can include different, or the same, treatment techniques as in previously treated areas.
Activities include: 1) Removing undesirable exotic, non-native, or naturalized plants, generally considered noxious, invasive, or weed species. Work may involve one or more plant species, and includes mechanical, biological, and/or chemical means, as well as controlled burns. 2) Reducing/controlling competing undesirable or native vegetation by tilling, mowing, scalping, addition of mats, fertilization, herbicide application, tree/shrub thinning, and/or controlled burns. 3) Preventing or reducing animal damage with browse repellents, tree tubes/protectors, etc. 4) Maintaining or enhancing the health of target species or ecosystem by irrigation, limbing/thinning, sun protectors, controlled burns, and other activities. 5) Inter-planting or re-seeding an existing site if needed due to mortality or lack of vigor .
Work to restore Shrub-Steppe habitats anywhere in the basin should follow the Shrub-Steppe and Grassland Restoration Manual for the Columbia River Basin: http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/01330/wdfw01330.pdf. |
2012 |
|
373 |
To calculate the length of riparian bank habitat treated in miles, the measurement should reflect the center of channel counted for the right side, if looking downstream; or left side looking downstream; or both, if both banks are protected. This excludes the length of streambank associated with side channels or inlets.
- Riparian: Transition zone between aquatic and upland habitat typically within a river's floodplain. These habitats are related to and influenced by surface or subsurface waters, especially the margins of streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, seeps, and ditches between land and a stream and above the average high watermark, or bank full height. Plant communities along the river and lake margins are called riparian vegetation, characterized by hydrophilic plants. This includes floodplain habitat, which may be restored to properly functioning conditions. (This excludes floodplain habitat influenced by the tides, which is classified as "Estuarine Habitat" for Pisces.) |
Required |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
C.5.h.4 |
Miles of streambank treated for riparian plant removal/control |
ITS Action Category:
Riparian Habitat Improvement
ITS Metric:
Miles of fencing
|
| 198. Maintain Vegetation |
Active |
Maintain planted or pre-existing vegetation through physical, chemical, mechanical, and/or biological activities such as scalping, installing mats or mulch, mowing, irrigating, fertilizing, applying herbicide(s), burning, using Integrated Pest Management (IPM), preventing or reducing animal damage (browse repellents, tree tubes). This includes using different, or the same, treatment techniques in previously treated areas the second year, or later, of planting.
Vegetation maintenance activities which occur during the first (initial) year of planting (such as installing tree tubes, fertilizing, animal repellents, etc.) should be a milestone under 47. Plant Vegetation. |
2014 |
|
373 |
To calculate the length of riparian bank habitat treated in miles, the measurement should reflect the center of channel counted for the right side, if looking downstream; or left side looking downstream; or both, if both banks are protected. This excludes the length of streambank associated with side channels or inlets.
- Riparian: Transition zone between aquatic and upland habitat typically within a river's floodplain. These habitats are related to and influenced by surface or subsurface waters, especially the margins of streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, seeps, and ditches between land and a stream and above the average high watermark, or bank full height. Plant communities along the river and lake margins are called riparian vegetation, characterized by hydrophilic plants. This includes floodplain habitat, which may be restored to properly functioning conditions. (This excludes floodplain habitat influenced by the tides, which is classified as "Estuarine Habitat" for Pisces.) |
Required |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
C.5.h.4 |
Miles of streambank treated for riparian plant removal/control |
ITS Action Category:
Riparian Habitat Improvement
ITS Metric:
Miles of fencing
|
| 199. Remove Vegetation |
Active |
Use during the initial year of treating a site if removing one or more plant species, or a number of individuals of a plant species, by mechanical, biological, and/or chemical means, or by controlled burn.
Target species are often exotic or non-native plants, naturalized plants, or undesirable native plants, all of which may be considered to be noxious, invasive or "weeds". Includes the removal of both aquatic and terrestrial plants as well as tree stand manipulation due to encroachment or to create forage openings. |
2014 |
|
373 |
To calculate the length of riparian bank habitat treated in miles, the measurement should reflect the center of channel counted for the right side, if looking downstream; or left side looking downstream; or both, if both banks are protected. This excludes the length of streambank associated with side channels or inlets.
- Riparian: Transition zone between aquatic and upland habitat typically within a river's floodplain. These habitats are related to and influenced by surface or subsurface waters, especially the margins of streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, seeps, and ditches between land and a stream and above the average high watermark, or bank full height. Plant communities along the river and lake margins are called riparian vegetation, characterized by hydrophilic plants. This includes floodplain habitat, which may be restored to properly functioning conditions. (This excludes floodplain habitat influenced by the tides, which is classified as "Estuarine Habitat" for Pisces.) |
Required |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
C.5.h.4 |
Miles of streambank treated for riparian plant removal/control |
ITS Action Category:
Riparian Habitat Improvement
ITS Metric:
Miles of fencing
|
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