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The following recommendations are a compilation and adaption of recommendations from the three existing SMPs in the Ashokan watershed, recent stream assessments, and input from the Flooding and Erosion working group. Flooding and Erosion Recommendations, Last Updated 5-09

Flood Protection, Response and Mitigation

Recommendation 4: Watershed municipalities should facilitate development of a flood damage reporting system to track types of flooding, their location and the costs associated with flood damage.

Action Item 4.1 Research use of flood damage tracking systems elsewhere, and if deemed useful, work with watershed municipalities to develop such systems.

a. Lead agency: CCE
b. Other Partners: Municipalities, UC SWCD, USDA-NRCS
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Items:

i. Investigation into the use and usefulness of flood damage tracking systems
ii. Identify how Towns currently track flood damage and evaluate whether this can be improved through a coordinated flood damage tracking system
iii. Brief report to municipalities on potential value of developing a flood tracking system with recommendations for next steps.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. none

Recommendation 5: Support the completion of Flood Studies by FEMA to produce necessary revisions to the existing Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and support adoption of the maps and training for local floodplain managers.

Action Item 5.1 Update topographic data necessary to improve accuracy of terrain for hydraulic modeling required to delineate floodplains.

a. Lead Agency: DEP, FEMA
b. Other Partners: DEC
c. Existing Activities:

i. DEP has procured recent LIDAR topographic data (April, 2009) necessary for FIRM development.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. DEP and contractors will update digital elevation models based on LIDAR data

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Updated digital elevation models will be used for hydraulic modeling and subsequent hydraulic modeling results to be used in deriving FIRMs. Timing is contingent upon pending DEP-FEMA contract registration.

Action Item 5.2 Revise FIRMs for Ashokan Reservoir watershed via an Agreement between DEP and FEMA.

a. Lead Agency: FEMA
b. Other Partners: DEP, DEC
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. FEMA will revise FIRMs based on updated terrain and modeling information and will provide to municipalities for review/comment (contingent upon pending DEP-FEMA contract registration)

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. none – since the work for this Action Item is contingent upon contract registration.

Action Item 5.3 Provide training for local floodplain managers in use of revised maps

a. Lead Agency: CCE
b. Other Partners: DEC, FEMA
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. FEMA-sanctioned training to be offered to municipalities

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. None – since the work for this Action Item is contingent upon contract registration.

Recommendation 6: Watershed municipalities should facilitate periodic notification to landowners who have stream erosion hazard areas (SEHA) located on their property.

Action Item 6.1 Continue effort started in Upper Esopus Creek Management Plan to delineate stream erosion hazard areas. Continue to pilot this effort on Esopus Creek to determine its feasibility as a planning tool.

a. Lead Agency: DEP
b. Other Partners: US Army ERDC, Consultants, UC SWCD, USDA-NRCS
c. Existing Activities:

i. Stream Erosion Hazard Assessment documented in the Upper Esopus Creek Management Plan Volume III, Section 3.1.2

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Implement recommendations for further model development listed in Section 3.1.2.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. The Project Team believes this is an important activity and will investigate opportunities to contract for this work

Recommendation 7: Support development of preliminary recommendations for an emergency early flood warning system, and assist interested communities in obtaining funding for system implementation.

Action Item 7.1 Work with watershed municipalities on an education and outreach effort to better utilize the NY Alert system for flood emergency preparedness.

a. Lead Agency: CCE
b. Other Partners: UC Emergency Services
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Investigate options with the UC Emergency Services
ii. Distribution of outreach materials specific to watershed communities

e. Planned Activity/Outcomes for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. All possible activities identified above.

Recommendation 8: Increase access to flood prevention/protection information in the watershed.

Action Item 8.1 The Ashokan Watershed SMP Field Office in Shandaken will be a host site for flood prevention/protection information.

a. Lead Agency: CCE
b. Other Partners: UC SWCD, UC Emergency Services, NRCS
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. CCE will create a physical and digital library of resources for Ashokan watershed Towns and residents.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. All possible activities identified above.

Action Item 8.2 Develop a flood emergency preparedness program for stream management stakeholders. Watershed municipalities, working with local and state agencies, should support periodic training sessions on flood related issues. Audience should include municipal leaders, code enforcement staff, planning boards, landowners, realtors, lending institutions and others

a. Lead Agency: CCE
b. Other Partners: UC SWCD, UCES, NYCDEP, NYSDEC and NYSDOS, NRCS
c. Existing Activities:

i. CCE hosted a flood response workshop in Ulster County in March 2008.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Workshop on flood emergency preparedness topics at April 2010 Watershed summit
ii. Investigate the need for further development of a flood emergency preparedness program.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Workshop on flood emergency preparedness topics at April 2010 Watershed summit.

Recommendation 9: During periods of post -flood response, municipalities need information and technical support to minimize impacts on stream system stability. Documented guidelines for “repairs” of flood damaged streams and drainage systems with best management practices advocated by the AWSMP would greatly reduce risk of further instability. Guidelines, which integrate stream form and function, should be developed for use during post flood response.

Action Item 9.1 CCE, UC SWCD, and DEP will work with WOH watershed stream management partners to develop documentation of guidelines for post-flood response to stream channel and corridor. This Action Item is contingent upon coordination with WOH watershed Stream Management Program partners, and local, state and federal agencies.

a. Lead Agency: Multiple
b. Other Partners: other local, county, state, and federal agencies
c. Existing Activity:

i. Contractor training guideline developed by DCSWCD in support of flood response workshops hosted by DCSWCD in 2009.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Convene coordinated inter-basin meeting to strategize content and format of proposed guidance document.
ii. Work with partners and consultants, if needed, to publish guidelines.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Above Possible Activities if the effort can be coordinated within the two year planning period.

Recommendation 10: Where existing communities, structures and facilities are in at-risk locations, encourage the application of flood-proofing measures or relocation.

Action Item 10.1 Work with the Town of Shandaken to apply flood-proofing measures in the hamlet of Phoenicia as a pilot during the five year project

a. Lead Agency: CCE
b. Other Partners: Town of Shandaken, UC SWCD, Ulster County Emergency Services, FEMA
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Inventory properties and infrastructure that are prone to flood damage
ii. Make recommendations for flood-proofing.
iii. Work with Town to find funding to implement the recommendations.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Meet with Town of Shandaken to determine interest in this item, and to investigate sources of technical assistance and funding.

Recommendation 11: Municipalities in the Watershed should conduct a review of current floodplain ordinances and adopt revisions as appropriate. Prevent inappropriate development in areas of high flood or erosion risk and foster uses that are compatible with the anticipated flooding and erosion conditions. Revisions should reflect current building trends, new technologies compliance and integrate broader community plans as appropriate.

Action Item 11.1 Using results of revised FIRMs and the Stream Erosion Hazard Area assessment, work with municipalities to identify how existing ordinances can be improved to limit damaging land use in the floodplain.

a. Lead Agency: CCE
b. Other Partners: Municipalities, DEP, UC SWCD, UC Planning
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action item:

i. Work with Project Team, Towns, and/or consultants to identify areas of risk and evaluate suitability of existing floodplain ordinances to prevent inappropriate development in these high risk areas.
ii. Document and presentation to towns comparing their existing floodplain ordinances with model ordinances designed to address high risk/ high hazard areas.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. None – contingent upon completion of FIRMs and revision of Stream Erosion Hazard Area assessment. Upon completion of both, then this activity can commence.

Recommendation 12: Support implementation of Ulster County’s Hazard Mitigation Plan in the Town of Shandaken, with emphasis on addressing flooding and stream erosion hazards, and encourage towns in the watershed without Hazard Mitigation Plans to develop plans.

Action Item 12.1 Ulster County has a FEMA-approved Hazard Mitigation Plan. Work with the Town of Shandaken, the only Town in watershed to support the County’s HMP effort, to be prepared for use of State mitigation funding following declared State emergencies.

a. Lead Agency: CCE, UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: Town of Shandaken, UC Emergency Services, DEP, USDA-NRCS
c. Existing Activities:

i. Town of Shandaken recently (5/1/09) submitted a list and conceptual designs of proposed projects for FEMA funding.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Periodically revise proposed project list and designs to incorporate new information, funding, and technical support.
ii. Work with Towns of Olive, Woodstock, and Hurley to see if they can retroactively participate in the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Plan implementation.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. All possible Activities identified above.

Stream Erosion Mitigation

Recommendation 13: Annually monitor performance of stream corridor projects funded by the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program.

Action Item 13.1 Develop a stream corridor project monitoring protocol that can be adapted for specific projects.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: DEP, NRCS
c. Existing Activities:

i. There are sample monitoring protocols developed for the demonstration projects constructed in the Esopus Creek watershed that can be used to draft a more uniform protocol.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action item:

i. Review regionally and nationally available monitoring protocols
ii. Develop Program-specific protocol that has adaptive format/content to accommodate the specific types of projects and unique goals/objectives.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. All Possible Activities identified above.

Action Item 13.2 Implement monitoring protocol with the completion of the first project completed with funds from AWSMP contracts.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: DEP, other funding agencies
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Implement monitoring protocol.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Above Possible Activity, if project constructed within the two-year action planning period

Recommendation 14: Assist local landowners, contractors and others in designing and implementing best management practices to reduce erosion

Action Item 14.1 Develop a document that describes appropriate best stream management practices to address stream bank erosion for use in the Ashokan watershed. CCE, UC SWCD, and DEP will work in conjunction with other watershed partners to develop this document. The final document will be intended to have application beyond the Ashokan watershed. This Action Item is contingent upon coordination with WOH watershed Stream Management Program partners, and local, state and federal agencies

a. Lead Agency: Multiple
b. Other Partners: local, county, state, and federal agencies
c. Existing Activities:

i. Draft document prepared by US Army ERDC principal investigator, Craig Fischenich, PhD, P.E., titled “Considerations for BMP Implementation in Esopus Creek, NY”.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Items:

i. Convene inter-basin committee to develop a document describing recommended BMPs for use in addressing stream bank erosion in the Catskill Mountains.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Convene inter-basin committee to begin developing the document.

Action Item 14.2 Provide long term access to technical assistance to landowners and municipalities for assessment of their stream-related problems. Help landowners develop effective management strategies for their property and supervise stream project implementation.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: CCE, DEP, DEC, NRCS
c. Existing Activities:

i. Currently UC SWCD and NRCS staff provide this assistance outside the Ashokan Watershed SMP effort.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Provide regularly scheduled times in office or for site visits to assist streamside landowners and municipalities with evaluating and addressing stream-related problems.
ii. Develop/seek opportunities to demonstrate evaluation techniques and effective management strategies that can be used as part of the education & outreach program.
iii. Provide funding, through SAP, CCE implementation funds, or UC SWCD project funds to encourage landowners and municipalities to participate in developing and implementing management plans.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for the 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Above Possible Activities

Infrastructure Protection, Maintenance and Enhancement (Includes Stormwater)

Recommendation 15: Encourage collaboration between state and local highway departments and stream management personnel to develop specifications for applying natural channel design concepts to bridge rehabilitation and replacement, streambank stabilization along roadsides and other routine maintenance activities.

Action Item 15.1 Convene periodic meetings with the Highway Superintendents for each of the Ashokan watershed municipalities, Ulster and Greene County DPW staff, and NYS DOT representatives to discuss opportunities for collaboration and technical support.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: municipal, county and state highway departments, DEP, NRCS, CCE
c. Existing Activities:

i. Ashokan Watershed SMP Flooding and Erosion working group meetings

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Attend a monthly Ulster County Highway Superintendant meeting to explain the Program.
ii. Establish a quarterly or semi-annual meeting with all relevant local, county, and State highway personnel to identify shared stream/road concerns and evaluate opportunities to support coordinated effort to use BMPs.
iii. Develop annually revised work plans for collaboration.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for the 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Above Possible Activities

Action Item 15.2 Provide technical assistance to ensure application of fluvial geomorphic principles and fiscal support to the Town of Shandaken in the Deer Lane bridge replacement as a Program-sponsored demonstration project.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: Town of Shandaken, NRCS, DEP
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Meet with Shandaken Highway Superintendant and others, as needed to complete geomorphic assessment and design for bridge replacement.
ii. Contract to provide funding assistance to help procure materials and implementation service.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Action Plan

i. Above Possible Activities
ii. Seek additional opportunities to establish collaboration with all Highway departments on using applied fluvial geomorphic principles for assessment and design involved with bank stabilization and bridge/culvert replacement.

Recommendation 16: Local municipalities, Greene and Ulster County Highway Departments and NYSDOT, should place a priority on vegetation management on critical areas such as roadside ditches and steep slopes. Develop programs to provide road maintenance crews with additional resources for seeding newly cleaned ditches with native ground-cover appropriate for reclamation.

Action Item 16.1 Meet with all highway departments operating in the Ashokan watershed to identify current roadside ditch and steep slope vegetation management practices and provide support as needed to improve those practices.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: various highway departments, CCE, CWC
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Convene meetings and make recommendations, as needed.
ii. Work with highway departments to secure funding to implement recommendations.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. All above Possible Activities with documented assessment and plan for improving quality of vegetation management practices.

Recommendation 17: Watershed municipalities should evaluate winter road abrasive procedures to address abrasive quality, application methods and spring sweeping. Winter road abrasive materials containing high silt/clay content can have a direct impact on water quality. Municipalities should be encouraged to use high quality washed sand materials. Cost share funding may be needed to provide incentive to use more highly priced materials.

Action Item 17.1 Meet with all highway departments operating in the Ashokan watershed to assess whether road abrasive material in current use has high clay/silt content and identify options to improve quality of abrasive if needed.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: Ashokan Watershed municipalities, CCE, CWC
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Convene meetings and make recommendations, as needed.
ii. Work with highway departments to secure funding to implement recommendations.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. All above Possible Activities with documented assessment and plan for improving quality of road abrasive used by Towns.

Recommendation 18: Watershed communities should develop and implement comprehensive stormwater management plans which will protect water quality as well as reduce impacts on stream morphology.

Action Item 18.1 Meet with Towns, CWC, and UC DOE to identify status of stormwater management planning and formulate recommendations for developing or improving, as needed.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD/CCE
b. Other Partners: Towns, CWC, UC Dept of Environment
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Convene meetings and make recommendations, as needed.
ii. Work with involved parties to secure funding to implement recommendations.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Documented results of meetings

Recommendation 19: Culvert outfalls create point sources of discharge, collected from the diffuse sources of road runoff. These outfalls can discharge significant amounts of concentrated pollutants into the stream. Identify the most critical outfalls with regard to point-source discharges and substrate stability, and which offer opportunities for mitigation.

Action Item 19.1 Town of Shandaken has mapped with GPS, the locations of all culvert outfalls. Work with the Town to identify those culvert outfalls that may contribute pollutants into the stream system and prioritize opportunities for mitigation.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: Shandaken, UC DOE, CWC
c. Existing Activities:

i. Ulster County EMC assessment report (2006) for County road culverts.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Obtain copy of georeferenced information on culverts from Shandaken and UC DOE.
ii. Work with Town to add information relating to whether the culvert is a “critical” point-source discharge of pollutants and identify treatment alternatives that can be used to mitigate the problem.
iii. Identify funding sources that can assist the Town (and other highway management agencies) in implementing recommended mitigation practices.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. All Possible Activities listed above with report documenting plan for (1) mitigating point-source pollutant discharges from culvert outfalls; and (2) identification of funding opportunities.

Action Item 19.2 If needed, work with the other Ashokan watershed municipalities, County DPW and NYSDOT to map culvert outfalls and identify those culvert outfalls that may contribute pollutants into the stream system and prioritize opportunities for mitigation.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: Municipal, county, and State Highway Dept, UC DOE, CWC
c. Existing Activities:

i. Ulster County EMC assessment report (2006) for County road culverts

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Obtain available copy of georeferenced information on all culverts in Ashokan watershed
ii. Perform assessment to identify whether culverts are critical point-source discharges of contaminants and revise geodatabase to identify these sources.
iii. Identify treatment alternatives that can be used to mitigate problem culverts.
iv. Identify funding sources that can assist the Town (and other highway management agencies) in implementing recommended mitigation practices.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. none – this would be scheduled after 2011.

Recommendation 20: Support the development of operational and/or structural modifications at the Shandaken Tunnel intake chamber to reduce turbidity loading to Upper Esopus Creek as outlined in the SPDES permit and Catskill Turbidity Control Study, Phase II. (EC WQ.3)

Action Item 20.1 CCE and UC SWCD staff will attend semi-annual public informational meetings required by the Shandaken Tunnel SPDES permit to stay informed on DEP’s operations of the Tunnel.

a. Lead Agency: CCE, DEP hosts meetings
b. Other Partners: none
c. Existing Activities:

i. Semi-annual public meetings hosted by DEP.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Distribute announcements of scheduled meetings to Council and working group members.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 :

i. Above Possible Activity

Action Item 20.2 The Ashokan SMP Field Office in Shandaken will include hard copies of all pertinent public documents regarding the operations of the Shandaken Tunnel and proposed structural and operational modifications to help reduce turbidity discharged into Esopus Creek (e.g. Catskill Turbidity Control Studies Phases 1-3). [sub-items a. – d. not needed for this Action Item.]

Recommendation 21: Advocate an active monitoring program for large woody debris (LWD) that focuses upon (1) the identification and removal of debris that poses a flood hazard to infrastructure and a threat to human welfare and (2) identifies LWD key to ecologic health.

Action Item 21.1 Develop and distribute to watershed municipalities maps of potential hazards associated with LWD based on aerial and ground-based reconnaissance imagery.

a. Lead Agency: DEP
b. Other Partners: CCE, UC SWCD
c. Existing Activities

i. Annual spring aerial reconnaissance of Esopus Creek by helicopter dating back to 2004.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Review available aerial reconnaissance imagery to map out persistent and/or potentially hazardous LWD sites.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Above Possible Activity provided to Towns and other involved parties, if they want it.

Action Item 21.2 CCE will research how other areas have handled LWD management issues.

a. Lead Agency: CCE
b. Other Partners: UC SWCD
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Conduct nation-wide research into LWD management by agencies and NGOs
ii. Prepare brief report documenting research findings with recommendations for LWD management in the Ashokan watershed.
iii. Presentation on findings to stakeholders.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s):

i. Above Possible Activities. Will depend on availability and accessibility of information on LWD. Initial research assessment will begin Fall 2009.

Recommendation 22: Support an investigation of the geotechnical processes controlling coupled hill slope and stream bank erosion in order to evaluate management feasibility. These erosion sites are typically long-lasting and chronic sources of turbidity to Esopus watershed streams.

Action Item 22.1 UC SWCD and DEP intend to initiate a geomorphic and geotechnical assessment of the “Chichester reach” of Stony Clove Creek (Management Units 17 and 18 in the SCSMP) in support of a proposed treatment feasibility study. This reach of stream is characterized by chronic suspended sediment loading from coupled streambank erosion and hill slope failures.

a. Lead Agency: UC SWCD
b. Other Partners: DEP, NRCS, NYS Geological Survey
c. Existing Activities:

i. Geotechnical investigations as part of the Broadstreet Hollow demonstration project and the Batavia Kill at Red Falls study completed by Dan Loucks for GCSWCD.

d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Work with other partners through inter-governmental agreement to investigate geotechnical and hydrogeologic conditions leading to hill slope failure at the Chichester reach of Stony Clove.
ii. Seek to engage researchers to conduct research in the Esopus Creek watershed to investigate this phenomenon.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Possible Activity (i.) listed above.

Recommendation 23: Support implementation of a stream channel monitoring program. The intent of the monitoring would be to assess and evaluate short-term and long term stream channel system condition at representative sites. See Action Item 35.3 for the Planned Stream Assessments on page 20. This recommendation will be removed in subsequent Action Plans

Recommendation 24: Support glacial geology mapping in the Upper Esopus Watershed to improve turbidity source characterization.

Action Item 24.1 DEP intends to support the NYS Geological Survey to update/revise the mapping of the surficial geology of the Upper Esopus Creek watershed. The results of this mapping can be used to help (1) improve our understanding of where potential stream channel and hill slope sources of suspended sediment are likely to occur; and (2) aid in development of spatially distributed models of suspended sediment entrainment and transport in the stream network. This Action Item is contingent upon availability of federal funding.

a. Lead Agency: DEP NYS Geological Survey
b. Other Partners: USGS
c. Existing Activities: none
d. Possible Activities to Address Action Item:

i. Meet with NYSGS staff seasonally to stay apprised as to their efforts and provide additional data as available.
ii. Assist NYSGS, if possible with supplemental funding to support effort.

e. Planned Activity/Outcome(s) for 2009 – 2011 Ashokan Action Plan:

i. Contingent upon NYSGS activities, provide support as listed in Possible Activities for this Action Item.