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A major challenge in drafting the legislation concerned the relative roles of the federal, state, and local governments. Another was what constituted fair treatment of the many private landowners in the Gorge.
In response to these many...
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Columbia River Gorge Commission
GMAs, SMAs, and Urban Areas
Land Acquisition
The creation of a bi-state Columbia River Gorge Commission to implement portions of the Act is another illustration of the delicate balance. For example, its...
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Management Plan for the SMAs
especially sensitive, requiring special protection and limiting development opportunities for the landowner, the Forest Service may purchase the land at fair market value, protecting the interests of both the...
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Interim Management
[8(e)] "... develop land use designations for the special management areas. The land use designations shall be
"(1) based on the resource inventory prepared by the Secretary pursuant to this section; and
"(2)...
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Resource Inventories
The interim period has been much more than just a time of allowing business to continue until final ordinances are adopted. The experience with site-specific issues and development problems has provided an important reality...
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Image details: PLANNING PROCESS CHART
ISSUES CONCERNS OPPORTUNITIES
Figure 12
LAND SUITABILITY
PRELIMINARY LAND USE DESIGNATIONS
LAND USE DESIGNATIONS
GOALS AND POLICIES
ENHANCEMENT STRATEGIES
RESOURCE INVENTORIES
RESOURCE...
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Analysis of Suitability and
Sensitivity
The Act also mandates an examination of opportunities for increased or improved recreation. Section 8(d)(3) and 6(a)(3)(C) require an inventory of areas which would "provide increased access for...
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Preliminary Land Use Designations and
Recreation Intensity Zones
Besides knowing where the sensitive resources are, the analysts had to consider how sensitive they were to human caused impacts. Various protection measures, including...
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Goals and Policies
Then these zones were compared with the designations and the resource sensitivities. Adjustments were made where necessary to balance competing uses and to protect sensitive resources. The final result of this analysis step...
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Final Designations, Recreation Intensity Zones, and Management Direction
resources. Strategies for enhancing the resources were considered in the same process, and are presented in Chapter 5.
Based on the goals and policies as they appear in...
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Plan Implementation
Implementation of the Management Plan requires more than spelling out management direction in county ordinances or federal land use direction. Strategies are needed to obtain the results envisioned for the future....
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the discussion in Chapter 5 is necessarily very tentative. As the GMA management plan takes shape, these sections will receive much more discussion.
Public Involvement
Throughout the planning process, a comprehensive public participation...
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subjects. Individuals with expertise or knowledge about the Gorge or who represented interest groups were encouraged to become KCCs. These individuals represented networks or interest groups at special meetings with the Commission and the Forest...
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The committee advised the Commission and Forest Service on the resource and land use inventories, development review procedures, and design of the planning process. The planners also provided recommendations for goals and policies and management...
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CHAPTER 2:
The Gorge Today
Introduction
Before determining how best to manage the resources in the National Scenic Area, it was essential to understand more about the uses and resources which could affect and be affected by the decisions....
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Geology
Climate
and the legal regulation status prior to the passage of the Act is discussed.
The discussions in this chapter provide the foundation for the SMA management direction presented in Chapter 3.
The Columbia River, the...
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Scenery
Socio-Economic Setting
The diversity of the natural environment contributes to the dramatic scenic diversity. The myriad features of the Gorge—from the largest river in the Pacific Northwest to startling rock bluffs and cliffs, from...
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Inventories
In the other sectors, agriculture and government appear to be stable. Tourism in general should see moderate growth, with windsurfing growth leading the way. In the United States economy in general, the importance of manufacturing...
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Visual Attributes
Scenic Area, most notably the research done on visual quality in the Columbia River Gorge: Study of Alternatives (National Park Service, 1980) and the Recreation Overview (Jones and Jones, 1988). This work served as a good...
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Table 2:1. Mapped Inventories Used in Analysis of Scenic Resources
SOURCE(S) OF INFORMATION EACH AREA ON THE MAP IS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: 38 vegetation classifications Pastoral; forest; oak savannah; grassland; rural... |
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Landscape Diversity
Seen Areas
a map of the Scenic Area and entered into the GIS as an inventory.
When a person looks at a landscape the key feature that attracts the eye is diversity, such as a cliff within a forested area. The Columbia...
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Landscape Significance
Visual Absorption Capability
Landscape Sensitivity
This concept combines the inventories of diversity and seen areas, identifying those lands which are inherently striking to the eye and are seen from key viewing areas...
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Landscape Settings Analysis
effort. These inventories describe the present condition of the scenic resources, providing a baseline against which future conditions could be compared.
Although members of the public expressed views from all...
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Summary
4. PASTORAL: This setting is an agrarian setting characterized by cultivation and agricultural uses such as pastures, orchards, or vineyards. This setting may include woodlots and scattered rural residential development.
5. RURAL:...
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