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The Intertwine & The Intertwine Alliance Addressing Climate Change: A Regional Response Mike Houck, Director Urban Greenspaces Institute My Assignment Example of an Existing Program, The Intertwine Alliance Success Through Regional Collaboration Challenges We’ve Faced Regional Conservation Strategy, A Model? Role of Watershed Planning Replication Through the Willamette Valley Example of an Existing Program, The Intertwine Alliance Success Through Regional Collaboration Role of Watershed Planning Urban Biodiversity Is Not An Oxymoron DIFFERENT SCALES = DIFFERENT ANSWERS Low Richness Gap Analysis Hi Richness • Same 57 species • Same Coarse Filter • Different MMU Metro Gap Pond Turtle “What’s the extinction of the Condor to a child who has never known a wren?” Robert Michael Pyle, “The Extinction of Experience” from The Thunder Tree Dr. David Goode, Director of the London Ecology Unit Speaks at City Club of Portland as Country in the City keynote address East Bay Regional Park District Tour 1990 PSU’s Dr. Joe Porascky and graduate student Paul Newman create first regional natural areas map for Metro regional park study and inventory, June, 1989 ~ July 22, 1992 ~ Greenspaces Master Plan is adopted by Metro Council 1995 bond measure • 62% voted “yes” • $135.6 million total • 8,120 acres and 74 miles of river and stream frontage • $25 million local share for over 100 natural area related projects Natural Areas, Parks & Streams Bond Measure, Fall 2006 • $227.4 million total package: – $168.4 million for regional target areas – $44 million local share – $15 million opportunity grant fund • Cost to property tax payers is estimated at 22 cents per $1,000 assessed value. Natural Areas in the Metro Region 20,000 '06 Bond Measure 18,000 16,000 14,000 '95 Bond Measure Acres 12,000 10,000 Sm ith & Bybee 8,000 THPRD Nature Park Tryon Cr. Park 6,000 Oxbow Park 4,000 Forest Park 2,000 Washington Park 0 1870 Linnton & Holm an Parks 1891 1913 1933 1953 Year 1973 1993 The Intertwine Vision Exceptional interconnected system of parks, natural areas, and trails, equitably throughout PortlandVancouver region….. Regional Greenspaces System Forest Park Metro Fish and Wildlife Habitat with Bond Acquisitions, Public Land, and Anchor Sites Metro Fish and Wildlife Habitat Protection Resources Classes I and II Classes A and B Urban Growth Boundary Existing Anchor Sites Proposed Anchor Sites Metro Bond Acquisitions, Parks, and Greenspaces Other public land Drives the Economy and Tourism Preserves significant natural areas The system is considered an essential part of the urban infrastructure. “Someday, all this will be infrastructure.” Valuing Nature: Ecosystem Services Economic benefits of the system are integrated into economic development and marketing strategies. Documenting Ecosystem Services: Portland Bureau of Environmental Services After Johnson Creek floodplain before Protects biodiversity across urban and rural landscapes and beyond the region. Willamette Valley Cascadia Attracts federal, state, and regional funding to expand, operate and maintain the system. Springwater on Willamette Trail The Regional Conservation Strategy, A Model? Regional Conservation Strategy - Geography June 20 2006 Charette FEMA Floodplains Willamette Basin Ecosystem Consortium New Look Metro Title 13 Fish and Wildlife TheNature Conservancy Metro Parks and Greenspaces Oregon Department of Expert Panel Charrette with RCS model over CAP cover (full screen) April 2009 • Adapt successfully to a changing climate. – Strengthen capacity of natural systems to respond to more severe weather events, streamflow changes and flooding. – When planning investments, consider physical, social, environmental, economic and regulatory impacts of mitigating and adapting to climate change. Climate change already is affecting the region’s air and water resources, the quantity and distribution of habitats, and the ranges and behavior of native fish and wildlife species. Given the many unknowns and the interconnectedness of natural, built, and human systems, it would be wise to adopt a flexible, proactive approach to climate change that is consistent with the precautionary principle—i.e., to act now and manage assuming severe impacts. Fortunately, across the region there are on-the-ground examples of how climate change adaptation strategies can be combined with other regional and project-level goals. Theme: Protecting existing high-functioning areas, maintaining connectivity across the landscape, restoring and integrating natural areas and features into the built system provides multiple benefits, including mitigation for and adaptation to climate change. Challenges We've Faced Political, resistance to regionalism Silos, including state and local land use programs Inadequate documentation and documentation re ecosystem Services and multiple benefits of green infrastructure Lack of O & M Funding Moving from “one offs” to sustained effort Patience Could The Intertwine Alliance be Replicated in the Valley? The Intertwine Alliance www.TheIntertwine.org