4800 DOGWOOD DR 2016-01-01 MF Import

• Soi/ Smvev of Snohomish Coiuur Aren. Ii'ashii:gtoit (Dcbose and Klungland 19g3) • r\'ntional Ib'erland Ir:ventayAlaps. (U.S. Fish and Wildlifc Service [USF�VS] 19SS) • Sno6omisli Countv Sn�enm and if'etland Invento�v GISData • Aeria! Photagraphs . _ • Google Earth • Snohontish County Lnndscape /�nnging (S�ioScape) • Snohomislt Counry Shoreline �Llnster Prnsrarn 2.2 EIELD lNVESTICATION CLS performed a field invcsti�ation including wedand and stream identi(ication .md delineation on blay 16, 2011. The study area for thc project included the arca of disturbance and proposed restoration, and off=site areas as could be observed on the subject property ar across fence lines and from public roads. CES also used aerial photograph interpretation and publishcd inventories to assess offsite conditions. CE•S did not access or fieid-verify oflsite conditions Ueyond what could be obscrved from public roads and across property or fence lines. Critical areas could occur in thc areas that could not be physically observed or ha��e not becn inventoried. 2.3 �1'E1'LAND IDEN't[I�ICA7'ION r�ND CLASSIFICA'►'CO�I CES used [he methods outlined in die H'ashinglon State IVetlnnds Identificution a�rd Delincatinri �Lfanttnl (L'cology 1997) to identify and delineate wedands �vithin the study arca. \Vedands were classified according to the Cowardin System, as describcd in Classification of �'�'etlands and Dcepwater Elabitats and rated according ro the mediodology contained in the Snohomish County Critical Areas Regilations (30.G2.300 SCC). To be considered a wedand, an area must have liydrophytic vegetation, hydric soils, and wetland Itydrolo�y. CC5 collected data on these parameters in areas representative of typicai sitc conditions. llala collection meUiods for ��c�etation, soils, and hqdrolugy are described belo�v. 2.3.1 Vicectation Hydropliytic vegetation is detined as �egctation adapted to wetland conditions. To mect the hydrophytic vegctation critcrion, morc than 50 perccnt of thc dominant plants must bc Pacultativc, Facultative NeIL't11CI, Of 011llbfll�, based on the wetland indicator category assigned to each plant spccies by the USFNS (Rced 1997, Table i). During the ticld investigation, plant ;}�ecies and thcir indicator status were recorded on data sh�:ets. All scientific and common plant names follo�v currently accepted nomenclature. Most aze consistent with Fla•a o% the Pncilic Na•tln�esr (Hitchcock :uid Cronquist 1973) or the PLANTS Database (U.S. Department of A�aiculttire [USDAj 1996). C.irical:Ircns R�y�orr ? .lmte 2011 I�ie�v Ridg� Clnurh CESd 110G