DESCRIPTION
The Pulling Together in Restoration Project (PTIR) is a landscape-scale Jobs-in-Restoration program working across multiple jurisdictions in three counties and three WRIAs (20, 21, 22) to protect forest regeneration and watershed resiliency by preventing the spread of invasive species along the coast. Integrating decades of adaptation, PTIR develops cutting-edge methods for effective and safe containment, responds quickly to emerging or untreated needs, and engages in job creation and community-based education and collaboration - to address the challenges of invasive species and their impacts to climate, habitats, natural resource -based industries, salmon recovery, and community resiliency.
The Pulling Together in Restoration Project (PTIR) is a landscape-scale Jobs-in-Restoration program working across multiple jurisdictions in three coastal counties (Clallam, Jefferson, and Grays Harbor) and three WRIAs (20, 21, 22) to protect forest regeneration and watershed resiliency by preventing and controlling invasive plant species along the coast. Habitats protected and restored range from hilltop to valley bottom - forested ridges and valley walls to riverine floodplains, stream-associated wetlands, and coastal dunes, including off-channel fish refugia and rearing channels.Priority species supported include all anadromous and resident fish in each of the watersheds where naturally regenerative plant communities are given space to thrive along with their entire terrestrial and aquatic food web, and the animals, birds, amphibians, insects, and other biota that have evolved with salmon over the past 13,000 years since the region was glaciated. Also supported are the process-based inputs of large and small wood, nutrients, and provision of shade and slope stability.Integrating decades of adaptation, PTIR develops cutting-edge methods for effective and safe containment, responds quickly to emerging or untreated needs, and engages in job creation and community-based education and collaboration to address the challenges of invasive species and their impacts to climate, habitats, natural resource -based industries, salmon recovery, and community resiliency.