Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
PUGET SOUND NEARSHORE PROJECT

Interim Nearshore Guidance Feedback Survey

By filling out the following survey, you will be providing WDFW and our state agency partners important feedback about how we can make this and future guidance documents more useful to your nearshore planning and management needs. Your answers will also be used to help scope new marine nearshore information currently in development. All feedback will be kept anonymous. If you have questions about the survey or the guidance document, please contact Jennifer Hayes at 360-902-2562.

1. Which most accurately describes your role in Puget Sound nearshore issues? (Check One)
Local government planner/resource professional
Local government elected or appointed official
Private consultant
State legislator
State or federal agency policymaker
State or federal resource agency scientist or technical assistance provider
Educator/academic
Shoreline landowner or landowner representative
Nonprofit or interest group
Other:

 

2. For what type of project will you likely use this Interim guidance? (Check One)
Shoreline Master Program update
Critical Areas Ordinance update
Comprehensive, watershed, or restoration planning
Site-specific permits or project reviews
I don't anticipate using it
Other:

 

3. Please rate each section or aspect of the document by checking the appropriate box in each row of table, in terms of its helpfulness to your work:
 
  Very helpful
Deepened my understanding of the topic or provided needed new information.		 Somewhat helpful
The information didn't contribute much to my understanding of the topic, but was somewhat useful.		 Not helpful
Didn't contribute to my understanding or meet my needs.
Introduction
Science Briefs: Key Nearshore Habitats
Recommendations for Regulating Common Shoreline Modification Activities
Scientific justification for recommending regulations
Organization of document
Writing Style
References

 

4. Please describe how the Interim guidance was helpful to you by checking as many boxes as is appropriate:
It helped me better understand complex subject matter
It gave me new information useful to my project
It helped me understand the relationships between human actions and important nearshore processes
It helped to conceptualize a process for completing a plan to protect the nearshore
It helped me communicate information to the public or decision-makers
It helped me draft sections of code or policy language
Other:

 

5. What was the most helpful section or aspect of the document, and why?

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6. If you did not find the document, or sections of the document, helpful, what was the problem?
(Choose up to 2)
Information was confusing or not clearly stated
It covered topics not relevant to my work
The language was polarizing
It didn't provide enough detail on the topic covered
There were errors or inconsistencies in the information provided
Other:

 

7. What was the least helpful section or aspect of the document, and why?

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8. For which topic(s) covered by this guidance would you have liked more information?
(Choose up to 3)
Forage Fish
Beaches and Bluffs
Kelp and Eelgrass Beds
Marine Riparian Vegetation
Juvenile Salmon Habitat
Overwater Structures
Shoreline Armoring
Riparian Vegetation Alteration
Other:

 

9. For what additional topic(s) related to marine nearshore protection could you use more guidance? Select your choice(s) from the drop-down boxes, describe exactly what would be most useful to you.

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10. What types of information do you find most useful to your work? Select your choice(s) from the drop-down boxes, describe exactly what would be most useful to you.

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11. Please tell us more about what you liked or would like to see improved in this document to make it more useful to your needs.


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