Natural Resource Planning
The Natural Resource Planner is funded primarily through NOAA's Section 309 Base Grant of the Coastal Zone Management Act, which provides money for the planners to conduct special projects that enhance coastal management. Some projects that planning staff are involved in include:
- Wetland Management - Wetland determination, land exchange, field testing of rapid assessment methods for the valuation of Wetlands
- Improving Public access - Wing Beach Rehabilitation
- Addressing Coastal hazards - reviewing proposed developments and their susceptibility to floods, typhoons, quakes
- Cumulative and second impacts - reviewing proposed developments to prevent cumulative and secondary adverse impacts
- Marine debris- removal of litter and abandoned vessels like the Nago No.15, Samala, etc.
- Special Area Management Planning - working in concert with other agencies on the Managaha Task Force to protect and enhance the islands many natural, coastal, cultural, historic, and economic resources.
- Shoreline monitoring- Observing shoreline erosion and accretion patterns on Managaha Island and at American Memorial park