Restoration and Regulation Discussion Presented by: Wetlands and Waterways Program Maryland Department of the Environment Coordination Meeting March 12, 2013 Frequently, presenters must deliver material of a technical nature to an audience unfamiliar with the topic or vocabulary. The material may be complex or heavy with detail. To present technical material effectively, use the following guidelines from Dale Carnegie Training®.   Consider the amount of time available and prepare to organize your material. Narrow your topic. Divide your presentation into clear segments. Follow a logical progression. Maintain your focus throughout. Close the presentation with a summary, repetition of the key steps, or a logical conclusion. Keep your audience in mind at all times. For example, be sure data is clear and information is relevant. Keep the level of detail and vocabulary appropriate for the audience. Use visuals to support key points or steps. Keep alert to the needs of your listeners, and you will have a more receptive audience.

Issues Need for Timely Completion of Restoration Projects Need for Complete and Accurate Permit Applications and Compliance with Requirements to Issue Authorizations In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Practitioners Have Expressed Frustration with Need for Permits, Information Requirements, and Delays Regulatory Agencies Have Expressed Frustration at Poor Coordination, Incomplete Applications, and Projects that Fail to Comply with Requirements In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Supporting Information

Extent of the proposed impact Condition and function of the resource As with development projects, improperly located, poorly designed and/or constructed restoration projects can also be damaging to water resource functions and statutory/regulatory considerations. The amount of detailed information required for the alternatives analysis is usually based on: Extent of the proposed impact Condition and function of the resource Other mandated considerations In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Example is a project in a farm field vs. forested wetlands Amount of information and extent of avoidance and minimization required depends on characteristics of resource and associated considerations i.e., less information may be required to justify a project in a site with poor condition and limited functional benefits; or other considerations Example is a project in a farm field vs. forested wetlands In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Examples of Required Information Projects goals and objectives Project narrative and justification Resource characterization Alternatives analysis Hydrologic and hydraulic analysis Notification/permission of adjacent property owners Water quality data In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Narrative and Justification Attachments or application form Site selection process Alternative site analysis Avoidance and minimization Describe how and why the resource will improve as a result of the restoration In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Resource Characterization Description of Degradation that Would Benefit from Restoration Include references from other plans, monitoring efforts, and results from project site. Describe assessment method Include field data forms Wetland Biological and Stream Assessment Photographs Sensitive resource/SAV etc. surveys In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Watershed Plans Can Answer Previous Questions For example: Refer to prioritized list of sites in MS-4 plan and show how proposal is ranked Proposal may face challenges if omitted, is low priority; or contrary to watershed plan priorities In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Justify Design and Impacts Documentation that landowners affected by project have given permission for project to be established on, or affect their land Include provisions to address consequences of failure Plans- additional guidance under development Project shown in relation to all regulated resources Must be complete and legible In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Provide clear, step-by-step description of construction methods Are there different construction practices with fewer impacts? Is there another access point with fewer adverse impacts What measures have been taken to avoid soil compaction? How will excavated material be disposed of? In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Construction Methods cont. How will temporary disturbances be rectified? What measures will be taken to prevent spread of invasive species? In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

If Habitat is the Focus, Describe: Habitat requirements of the specific targeted species or general group of species; What habitat elements are lacking or minimal at the site; How the proposed project will successfully provide the habitat elements so that the desired species would increase at the site; Historic suitability of the site to support the species. In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Performance Standards These should be: Achievable Measurable, and expected to occur when the project is built as designed within the monitoring period For habitat, may be more appropriate to use: physical chemical and/or biological features of habitat In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

Performance Standards Use of habitat features prevents project being deemed a failure if wildlife species do not return to certain thresholds within the monitoring period However, there should be a reasonable likelihood that the restored species would support the species over a period of time In your opening, establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Give a brief preview of the presentation and establish value for the listeners. Take into account your audience’s interest and expertise in the topic when choosing your vocabulary, examples, and illustrations. Focus on the importance of the topic to your audience, and you will have more attentive listeners.

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