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2. Establishment of a representative array of watershed reference sites 

 throughout the Pacific Northwest. 



3. Establishment of watershed restoration projects as demonstration sites 

 for research and training. 



4. Development of training programs for future professional watershed 

 stewards. 



5. Emphasis on watershed and regional consensus process. 



6. Watershed restoration and management technical and policy information 

 transfer. 



7. New approaches to commodities extraction (e.g. riparian silviculture). 



V The Economic Benefits of Managing Rivers on a Ecosystem Basis - 

 Compared to the Existing Piecemeal Approach 



Restoration and management of rivers and watersheds on an ecosystem basis is the only 

 approach that will insure the sustainability of healthy native fish populations and 

 watershed health, ocean han/esting levels not with standing. Without the active 

 implementation of a region-wide watershed restoration initiative throughout the Pacific 

 Northwest, potentially hundreds of native salmon stocks will go extinct bringing on a 

 collapse of the regional fishing industry (Nehlsen et al. 1991). Concerning this crisis, 

 proactive measures will save a significant part of our regional economy. Regional 

 economic benefits resulting from ecosystem management of rivers and streams include: 



1 . Sustainable harvest of native fish populations. 



2. Development of a sustainable riparian silviculture. 



3. Reduced litigation and downstream mitigation and clean-up. 



4. Development of specialty tree crops for pulp and fiber (e.g. pibplar trees). 



5. The export natlonaly and globally of watershed restoration and management 

 expertise and techniques. 



6. Improvement of human health through recreation. 



7. A sustained ecological tourism industry. 



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