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Natural Resources
1. Overview of the effects of the site analysis requirements for protecting cultural resources.
2. Summary of cultural resources located during the previous year. Site-specific data will not be included in any report...
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Forest Resources
various natural resources. Their assistance in both design and implementation could help to assure a strong and effective monitoring program.
The annual monitoring program will address the following topics:
1. Impacts...
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Recreation
Land Adjustments
Recreation will likely show dramatic change since recreation development is a major component of implementation for the Scenic Area management plan. Part of this change will be caused by direct federal expenditures,...
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Glossary
Accessory structure: structure related to the primary structure in design, but not larger in ground area or higher than the main structure.
Accessory use: use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal uses and located...
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Agricultural practice: any activity pertaining to the sustained agricultural use of the land. This includes, but is not limited to, the cultivation of row crops, orchards, vineyards, livestock grazing. It does not include livestock feedlots....
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Commercial forest products: these include timber for lumber, pulp, and fire wood, and other special non-wood forest products such as mushrooms, boughs, and plants and plant parts.
Commercial recreation: any private (non-governmental)...
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Dwelling: shelter in which people live.
Endemic: plant and animal species that are restricted to the Gorge area.
Environmental education facility: structures built for the purpose of stimulating interest and educating people about the...
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Industrial uses: in general, any use primarily involved in:
• assembly or manufacture of goods or products;
• processing or reprocessing of raw materials, processing of recyclable materials, or non-locally produced agricultural...
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Major development action: (Scenic Area Act, Section 2(j)): "any of the following:
1. subdivisions, partitions, and short plat proposals;
2. any permit for siting or construction outside urban areas of multi-family residential,...
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New transportation facilities: transportation facility that does not currently exist. It does not mean the realignment or expansion of an existing transportation facility.
Open space: unimproved lands not designated for another use in the...
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2. identification of areas suitable for other public use facilities, including but not limited to educational and interpretive facilities, campsites, picnic areas, boat launch facilities, and river access areas; and
3. identification of...
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any public, business, commercial, industrial, recreational or any other activity, object for sale or lease, person or place, or to bear any kind of message. It includes any surface on which a name, text, device, signal, ornament, logotype, or...
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•Flow enough water to be a moderate or not clearly identifiable contributor to the quantity of water in a Class I stream, or be a major contributor to a Class II stream.
Class III. All other perennial streams or segments thereof not meeting...
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Visually subordinate: describes development that repeats form, line, color, or texture common to the characteristic landscape such that the activity is not a dominant feature, or is not easily seen.
Wetlands: areas that are inundated or...
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REFERENCES
Allen, J.E. 1979. The Magnificent Gateway. The Timber Press, 9999 SW Wilshire, Portland, OR. 144 pp.
Beckham, S.D, K.D. Toepel, R. Minor. 1988. Prehistory of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon and Washington....
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Morse, K.S.,and R.S. Anderson. 1988. Tourism in the Columbia River Gorge: A Profile of Visitors, Accommodations, and Economic Impacts. Washington Sea Grant Marine Advisory Services, 3716 Brooklyn Ave N.E., Seattle, WA. 91 pp.
National Park...
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Columbia River Gorge
National Scenic Area
RECREATION CONCEPT PLAN
MAP LEGEND SCENIC BACKDROP SCENIC CORRIDOR SPECIAL SCENIC/HISTORIC FEATURE UNDEVELOPED RECREATION DEVELOPED RECREATION EMPHASIS COLUMBIA RIVER RECREATION CORRIDOR... |
Columbia River Gorge
National Scenic Area
LANDSCAPE SETTINGS
Map legend: COLUMBIA RIVER COUNTY BOUNDARIES SMA/GMA BOUNDARIES LANDSCAPE SETTINGS WILDLANDS WOODLANDS RIVER BOTTOMLANDS PASTORAL RURAL COLUMBIA RIVER WASHINGTON... |
Columbia River Gorge
National Scenic Area
RECREATION INTENSITY ZONES
Map legend: COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE NATIONAL SCENIC AREA RECREATION INTENSITY ZONE 4 RECREATION INTENSITY ZONE 3 RECREATION INTENSITY ZONE 2 RECREATION INTENSITY ZONE 1... |
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area-Draft Land Use Designations Special Management Areas
Map legend: AGRICULTURE-CROP AGRICULTURE-RANGE NON-FEDERAL FOREST FEDERAL FOREST RESIDENTIAL PUBLIC RECREATION URBAN AREA GENERAL MANAGEMENT AREAS... |
columbia river and tributaries review study INVENTORY of PROBLEMS
AND AREAS of CONCERN
august 1974 U.S. DEPT OF THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS NORTH PACIFIC DIVISION CRT 3d
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part Page
I INTRODUCTION I-1
II BASIS FOR SELECTING SYSTEM-WIDE STUDY ELEMENTS II-1
III INVENTORY OF PROBLEMS AND AREAS OF CONCERN
List of Disposition Codes 111-1 SECTION 1: REVIEW OF THE EXISTING...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Cont'd)
Part Page SECTION 6: RECREATION
A.. Possible Operational Improvement of Existing
Projects III-70
B. Recreation Demand Forecast III-73
C. Alternatives and Supplemental Development III-74
D. Management...
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