Goal C Integrate nature-based climate solutions into relevant Infrastructure and investments

Progress Indicators

• Scoping: Scoping and organizing action; collecting input and conducting community engagement.
• Securing Funding: Securing funding; beginning project work.
• Underway: Work underway; documentation and reporting in progress.
• Nearing Completion: Work nearing completion.
• Complete: Work complete; shifting to ongoing maintenance, monitoring, evaluation and assessment.
• Ongoing Improvements: Ongoing advancements; continual improvements.

Actions

• Action 1 Integrate natural and working lands, resource, ecosystem, and public health protection strategies into transportation resiliency planning.

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  Success Metric: Ensure integration of climate change, natural resources, equity, and environmental considerations into all planning guidance and products, including transportation corridor plan guidance and project planning documents.

  Timeframe: 2022–2023 and ongoing

  Agency: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans

  For More Details: California Transportation Plan 2050

  Progress Indicator: Underway

  Success Metric: Support habitat connectivity and restoration in project planning.

  Timeframe: 2022–2023 and ongoing

  Agency: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans

  For More Details: California Transportation Plan 2050

  Progress Indicator: Underway

  Success Metric: Prioritize natural solutions in project delivery and environmental mitigation using climate smart land strategies.

  Timeframe: 2022–2023 and ongoing

  Agency: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans

  For More Details: California Transportation Plan 2050

  Progress Indicator: Scoping

• Action 2 Minimize adverse environmental impacts of the transportation system through enhancing California’s natural resources and environmental health.

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  Success Metric: Increase usage of natural infrastructure solutions such as bioswales, rainwater storage systems, and permeable pavements to enhance infrastructure resiliency.

  Timeframe: 2021 and ongoing

  Agency: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans

  For More Details: California Transportation Plan 2050

  Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

  Success Metric: Increase implementation of management practices that minimize soil loss and improve the water holding capacity of soil along roadways, such as compost or mulch application and live planting.

  Timeframe: Ongoing

  Agency: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans

  For More Details: Caltrans Landscape Architecture Program - Erosion Control Design

  Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

  Success Metric: Support a comprehensive culvert and fish passage improvement program along transportation corridors.

  Timeframe: Ongoing

  Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation Board

  For More Details: California Fish Passage Forum

  Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

• Action 3 Prioritize the use of natural infrastructure in efforts to protect and restore watersheds, coasts, marine waters, and ecosystems.

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  Success Metric: Consistent with the state's coastal resilience principles, develop guidance and permit language for these types of projects.

  Timeframe: Ongoing

  Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

  For More Details: State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan

  Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

  Success Metric: Develop guidance for Coastal Commission staff and project applicants on evaluating shoreline management adaptation options in light of sea-level rise in support of nature-based adaptation strategies and phased adaptation approaches.

  Timeframe: Completed in 2021 and ongoing

  Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission

  For More Details: Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning

  Progress Indicator: Underway

  Success Metric: Develop and implement strategies to protect the state’s biodiversity, working and natural lands in the coastal zone, and coastal waters and build climate resilience and economic sustainability.

  Timeframe: Ongoing

  Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Coastal Commission, Ocean Protection Council

  For More Details: Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning

  Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

• Action 4 Encourage investment in upper watersheds to protect water quality and supply.

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  Success Metric: Sustainable forest health conditions that protect water quality and aquatic habitat, and reduce fire risk.

  Timeframe: Ongoing

  Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of Conservation, Department of Water Resources, Sierra Nevada Conservancy

  For More Details: California Forest Carbon Plan; Sierra Nevada Conservancy Strategic Plan 2019-2024; State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan; Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program

  Progress Indicator: Underway

  Success Metric: Robust reforestation program to quickly recover critical watersheds after high severity fire.

  Timeframe: Summer 2022 and ongoing

  Agency: Natural Resources Agency - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Sierra Nevada Conservancy

  For More Details: Sierra Nevada Conservancy Watershed Improvement Program

  Progress Indicator: Underway

• Action 5 Integrate nature-based solutions in the development of California’s High-Speed Rail system.

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  Success Metric: Use of drought-tolerant, native, and/or fire-resistant landscaping.

  Timeframe: Annual

  Agency: State Transportation Agency - High-Speed Rail Authority

  For More Details: High-Speed Rail 2021 Climate Adaptation Plan

  Progress Indicator: Underway

  Success Metric: Number of grants funded, and trees planted through Urban Forestry Program.

  Timeframe: Annual

  Agency: State Transportation Agency - High-Speed Rail Authority

  For More Details: High-Speed Rail 2021 Climate Adaptation Plan

  Progress Indicator: Underway