Environmental

Land Stewardship

Principles Order

Presented by:

Erica Chung, Commission Strategic Advisor

Chipper Maney, Environmental Program Manager

Item No. 10a_supp

Meeting Date: July 11, 2023

Introduction

• Guidance to evaluate trade-offs

• Balances Port operations with natural

resource stewardship

• Consistently applied Port-wide for

all types of land use

• Stewardship benefits communities

and the environment

• Stewardship approach is

comprehensive

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Land Stewardship Benefits

Principles

1. Use a comprehensive approach to environmental

land stewardship, including trees, forest, and other

habitat.

2. Integrate land stewardship into infrastructure

planning and design.

3. Apply an equity and environmental justice lens

4. Support community partnerships and leverage

inter-governmental coordination and Port funds to

improve stewardship outcomes.

5. Use a holistic ecological approach to stewardship

to ensure trees, forest, and other habitat are

healthy and self-sustaining.

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Strategies

1. Adopt the SEA Land

Stewardship Plan

2. Adopt SEA Tree

Replacement Standards

3. Integrate land

stewardship into existing

Maritime programs

4. Update the Sustainable Evaluation Framework

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Thank You!

Questions?

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