Cooperative Ecological Restoration Management Areas

In Ecological Restoration Areas management techniques could be used to restore natural ecological processes. These restoration areas are encouraged to support limited roads, forest, stream, and wildlife restoration projects including selective logging, recreational development such as low-impact campgrounds and picnic areas, as well as all legal hunting and fishing. Forded creeks should be bridged, and problem roads fixed to stop major sediment transport. On agricultural tracts in this area, experiments might be tried that would promote no-till farming, organic agriculture, creek fencing and livestock troughs, and other farming techniques which reduce harmful runoff. The conservation plan recommends these areas for:

• Promotion of sustainable timber management (e.g. selective logging and smaller-scale volumes of extraction and restoration forestry)

• Forest, stream, wildlife and aquatic ecology restoration projects

• Economic incentives for private landowners to conserve soil, water, native grasses, and other native species, and to encourage land owner's use of Chattooga River Watershed Coalition's Private Lands Forest Stewardship Initiative

• Sustainable agriculture

• Some recreational development such as low-impact campgrounds and picnic areas

• Legal hunting and fishing.

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