Presentation Abstract
The 1971 Washington Shoreline Management Act (SMA) defines "Shorelands" or "shoreland areas" as those lands extending landward for two hundred feet in all directions as measured on a horizontal plane from the ordinary high water mark. We analyzed land use change in the Shorelands of Puget Sound using WDFW’s High Resolution Change Detection project. We identified 2,960 individual change locations that intersected those shorelands. We found 73% of the locations exhibited anthropogenic change, 14% had no real change within the shoreland area, 5% of the locations were landslides, 3% were erroneously mapped as change and the remaining locations fell into other minor categories of changes, some difficult to interpret. The entire study area covered 230 km2 or a 61m wide strip about 3800 km in length. The total change area was about 1.4 km2 or about 0.09% per year. This change area included about 0.4 km2 new impervious surface with about 0.9 km2 of tree removal. While we do not quantify vegetation growth, tree and other vegetation growth likely outpaced loss during this time period. We will provide final statistics and examples of change events as part of this presentation. We believe this presents the first comprehensive Puget Sound wide assessment of change within the “Shorelands” defined by the SMA.
Session Title
Panel: Beyond Armwaving and Anecdotes: Bringing Adaptive Management to Land Use Planning
Keywords
Shoreline, High resolution change detection
Conference Track
SSE12: Land-Use, Growth, and Development
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2018 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE12-494
Start Date
5-4-2018 10:00 AM
End Date
5-4-2018 11:30 AM
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Aerial photogrammetry--Washington (State)--Puget Sound; Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on--Washington (State)--Puget Sound; Shorelines--Monitoring--Washington (State)--Puget Sound
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
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Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
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Seven years of development and change within 200' of the shore in Puget Sound
The 1971 Washington Shoreline Management Act (SMA) defines "Shorelands" or "shoreland areas" as those lands extending landward for two hundred feet in all directions as measured on a horizontal plane from the ordinary high water mark. We analyzed land use change in the Shorelands of Puget Sound using WDFW’s High Resolution Change Detection project. We identified 2,960 individual change locations that intersected those shorelands. We found 73% of the locations exhibited anthropogenic change, 14% had no real change within the shoreland area, 5% of the locations were landslides, 3% were erroneously mapped as change and the remaining locations fell into other minor categories of changes, some difficult to interpret. The entire study area covered 230 km2 or a 61m wide strip about 3800 km in length. The total change area was about 1.4 km2 or about 0.09% per year. This change area included about 0.4 km2 new impervious surface with about 0.9 km2 of tree removal. While we do not quantify vegetation growth, tree and other vegetation growth likely outpaced loss during this time period. We will provide final statistics and examples of change events as part of this presentation. We believe this presents the first comprehensive Puget Sound wide assessment of change within the “Shorelands” defined by the SMA.
