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s <br /> Restoration Threshold Implementation Plan <br /> Restoration efforts will be triggered when , <br /> panoramic views have been blocked from 111t?'OdUCfl011 -1 <br /> baseline levels by more than 5%, or when The following Implementation Plan ' <br /> specific views are compromised by 25% (attached spread sheet pages 1- 20) The implementation <br /> (See Figure 9). contains the specifics of the master plan, plan is a fist of <br /> including policy statements, research specific actions <br /> Preferred View Restoration Approach projects, programming suggestions, needed to achieve <br /> The preferred approach topanoramicview maintenance recommendations and the vision <br /> restoration is for "framed views", whereby improvement projects for all aspects of the <br /> selected trees may be removed to restore Skinner Butte Park Master Plan. These ~ <br /> portions of the view that will return the recommendations are the culmination of <br /> overall view area to below the threshold research, public input, review and <br /> level of view blockage. Through this discussion that has contributed to this plan. <br /> technique,sometreeswillcontinuetogrow The Implementation Plan takes <br /> into the view area, while others will be precedence over other less specific <br /> removed, maintaining the natural look and discussions and recommendation herein. _ <br /> interest of full-crowned trees in the view Other components of the master plan <br /> foreground. Over time, the view can be (vision, policy goals, etc.) provide a <br /> managed carefully to achieve an aesthetic framework for interpreting and applying f <br /> balance of foreground and background these actions, Policies give added direction ` ' <br /> suitable for casual viewing or photography, for the Implementation Plan and help clarify <br /> painting, etc. Crown pruning is not proposals or elements that were not This paintingbyalocalartist ' <br /> considered an acceptable restoration tool. considered by this planning process illustrates the cultural t:_' <br /> prOCeSS. importance of maintaining <br /> viewsheds on Skinner Butte. <br /> Tree Removal Authorization in the Today, views of the river are } <br /> Critical Viewshed Overlay Zone nearly blocked by the trees in <br /> Areas where viewshed restoration will need the foreground. <br /> to occur is estabished by the Critical <br /> Viewshed Overlay Zone (Figure 8). All trees <br /> within these zones are hereby authorized <br /> for removal through this master plan. The <br /> Critical Viewshed Overlay Zone shall only <br /> authorize tree removal specifically for the ~ <br /> purpose of restoring significant panoramic <br /> and specificviews as described herein and I <br /> in accordance with the Viewshed ~ ' <br /> Management Plan methodology. Restraint ; <br /> - <br /> shall be exercised during viewshed ` " <br /> . <br /> restoration efforts to maintain an ~ . " ~ <br /> 1 <br /> aesthetically pleasing and ecologically ~ <br /> r~. g ~ <br /> functional landscape within the Critical <br /> , ~ x <br /> ~ <br /> Viewshed Overlay Zone. i f ~ <br /> +N <br /> I <br /> Y»t <br /> ;z <br /> I. I <br /> i <br /> I <br /> <br /> 76 Chapter 5: Master Plan ' <br /> <br />