1) "Restoration" - Actions performed to reestablish wetland 

 functional characteristics and processes which have been lost 

 by alterations, activities, or catastrophic events within an 

 area which no longer meets the definition of a wetland. 



2) "Creation" - Actions performed to intentionally establish 

 a wetland at a site where it did not formerly exist. 



3) "Enhancement" - Actions performed to improve the condition 

 of existing degraded wetlands so that the functions they 

 provide are of a higher quality. 



e. "Critical habitat" means habitat necessary for the survival of 

 endangered, threatened, rare, sensitive or monitor species. 



f . "Developable Area" means an area of land outside of wetlands and 

 wetland buffers. 



g. "Department" means the Washington state department of ecology, 

 h. "Emergent wetland" means a regulated wetland with at least 30 

 percent of the surface area covered by erect, rooted, herbaceous 

 vegetation as the uppermost vegetative strata. 



i. "Exotic" means any species of plants or animals that are foreign 

 to the planning area. 



j . "Existing and ongoing agriculture" includes those activities 

 conducted on lands defined in RCW 84.34.020(2), and those 

 activities involved in the production of crops or livestock, for 

 example, the operation and maintenance of farm and stock ponds or 

 drainage ditches, operation and maintenance of ditches, irrigation 

 systems including irrigation laterals, canals, or irrigation 

 drainage ditches, changes between agricultural activities, and 

 normal maintenance, repair, or operation of existing serviceable 

 structures, facilities, or improved areas. Activities which bring 

 an area into agricultural use are not part of an ongoing operation. 

 An operation ceases to be ongoing when the area on which it is 

 conducted is converted to a nonagricultural use or has lain idle 

 for more than five years, unless the idle land is registered in a 

 federal or state soils conservation program, or unless the activity 

 is maintenance of irrigation ditches, laterals, canals, or drainage 

 ditches related to an existing and ongoing agricultural activity. 

 Forest practices are not included in this definition, 

 k. "Extraordinary hardship" means strict application of this 

 chapter and/or programs adopted to implement this chapter by the 

 [Approval Authority] would prevent all reasonable economic use of 

 the parcel. 



1. "Forested wetland" means a regulated wetland with at least 20 

 percent of the surface area covered by woody vegetation greater 

 than 20 feet in height. 



m. Functions," "beneficial functions," or "functions and values" 

 means the beneficial roles served by wetlands including, but not 

 limited to, water quality protection and enhancement, fish and 

 wildlife habitat, food chain support, flood storage, conveyance and 

 attenuation, groundwater recharge and discharge, erosion control, 

 wave attenuation, historical and archaeological and aesthetic value 

 protection, and recreation. These beneficial roles are not listed 

 in order of priority, 

 n. "High intensity land use" includes land uses which are 



