Drafter
Clerk 06/30/2025
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A MOTION accepting the King County 30-Year Forest Plan in accordance with Ordinance 19881, Section 377.
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WHEREAS, the 2015 Strategic Climate Action Plan thirty-year plan for maximizing the percentage of tree cover in both urban and rural King County while accommodating population and economic growth and meeting goals and needs for local agriculture and food production, wildfire prevention, and working forests, and
WHEREAS, to meet this requirement the King County department of natural resources and parks developed the King County 30-Year Forest Plan with input from nonprofits, municipalities, tribes, forestland owners and managers, and community members, and
WHEREAS, the King County 30-Year Forest Plan was finalized in February 2021 and provides a shared county-wide vision, while providing a roadmap for the department of natural resources and parks to better manage our forests by identifying priority goals, strategies, and actions, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 19881, Section 377, requires the executive to transmit the thirty-year forest plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The King County council hereby accepts the King County 30-Year Forest Plan, Attachment A to this motion.