How to Evaluate and Condition Wetland and Mitigation Design Plans
If you are responsible for reviewing, commenting on and conditioning wetland, stream or upland mitigation plans, this two-day course is for you. This course will give you the tools you need to confidently review and condition habitat restoration and mitigation plans. You will learn what to look for in submitted designs and how to write effective conditions and ask for revisions that assure the plan's success and long-term viability.
This course is sponsored by the Washington State Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA).
To learn how to bring this course to your organization, please contact Engineering Professional Programs at 206-543-5539 or toll-free at 1-866-791-1275.
Learn Answers to These Questions
- What are the common causes of success and failure in mitigation projects?
- How do you read grading plans?
- How can stormwater facilities and their outfalls affect adjacent habitat areas?
- What are appropriate soil amendment measures?
- What species of plants are appropriate in given situations?
- How do you know how deep the water will be in the proposed wetland?
Course Topics
- Ensuring project success
- Assessing suitability of mitigation sites
- Realistic goals and objectives
- Measurable performance standards
- Appropriate plant and installation specifications
- A reading plan sheets
- Construction estimates and bonds
- Maintenance protocols
- Realistic contingency planning
- Correlating monitoring to performance standards
- The course will cover basics quickly, spending more time on specifics to provide value to those at all levels of experience.
Who Should Attend
Planners, landscape architects, wetland ecologists, biologists, stream ecologists and engineers will find this course of value
"Great information! Great personalities! Great way to keep class moving."
"Very knowledgeable instructors with practical experience! And effective teaching methods – Good humor is always nice!"
"Tag-team instruction worked well for different opinions and ideas."
"Instructor enthusiasm and real life knowledge/experience."
"The whole two days was well worth the time. "
"Extremely good interaction with the audience. Encouraged participation."
"Personal experience and specific examples were excellent. Resources provided (were) valuable!"
"The many practical examples of solutions for common problems."
"The instructors were very open to comments and questions."
Faculty
Dyanne Sheldon, is an accomplished field naturalist with 21 years of professional field experience in the habitats of the Pacific Northwest, plus five years professional field experience in the Upper Midwest. She has assessed habitat impacts to both terrestrial and aquatic systems, and she has designed and overseen the installation of her firm's restoration projects for over a decade.
Susan Buis is principal of Sound Native Plants, Inc. and Sound Ecological Services, sister companies that provide a full spectrum of restoration services including design, installation, native plant propagation, maintenance, and monitoring. Prior to founding her companies in 1992, she worked for Yosemite and Olympic National Park, where she developed and managed restoration projects and native plant propagation protocols. Ms. Buis has been teaching workshops in restoration design and installation to professional groups and agencies since 1996 and has published articles on creating restoration specifications in Hortus West and in Native Plant Journal.
Continuing Educations Units
Course participants will earn 1.4 CEUs upon successful completion of this course. The CEU is a nationally recognized measure of participation in a noncredit continuing education program that meets established criteria for increasing knowledge and competency.