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Kitsap Heritage Park Trails
Posted on May 23, 2025In the Draft 2025 PROS Update that you are considering, the Kitsap County Parks Department is proposing significant changes in the way it manages our parks. The new plan emphasizes active recreation and sports at the expense of natural recreation such as walking, hiking, observing native plants and wildlife, and quiet enjoyment. In my opinion, the proposed PROS Update reveals a serious lack of vision on the part of the Parks Department. […]
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Stewardship at Kitsap Parks
Posted on May 23, 2025An especially troublesome issue in the management of large public properties is fiscal. Public use of these natural areas requires construction and maintenance of access ‘trails’ designed to be consistent with wildlife habitat protection. In our larger parks the expense of achieving these goals can be prohibitive. Personnel, equipment, supplies, etc. can be costly. For the ten-year period 2013-2023, talented, energetic, committed citizens with pertinent skills and environmental passion have done almost all of the work of maintenance of North Kitsap Heritage Park (NKHP). Formerly referred to as park “Stewards”, a term implying special expertise, […]
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Speak Up for Heritage Parks!
Posted on May 13, 2025The Parks Department is proposing significant changes in the way it manages Heritage Parks. They now emphasize active recreation and sports at the expense of natural recreation, such as walking, hiking, observing native plants and wildlife, and quiet enjoyment.
Kitsap’s Heritage Parks preserve habitats with diverse flora and fauna. This plan jeopardizes natural habitats and wildlife corridors.
In the county’s survey, residents overwhelmingly value Kitsap’s rural look and feel and support policies that protect rural spaces and scenic areas. The proposed plan goes in the opposite direction.
If you agree that the proposed plan should be changed to preserve Kitsap’s natural habitat, you must make your opinion known to the Park’s Planner and the Planning Commission, NOW! […]
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Community Engagement in Parks Decision-Making
Posted on May 13, 2025Organization of PROS Plan
The organization of the plan needs improvement. Here are examples of improvements needed in the organization of the plan:
Figure 1-1(p.8) appears to be a depiction of the order of the chapters. The Demand and Needs Analysis chapter is shown as coming before the Goals and Objectives chapter. These are reversed in the text.
Most of the first four pages of the Overview and the Demand & Needs Analysis chapter seems more logically to fit in the Inventory & Assessment chapter which provides background and the general picture of the context for the PROS Plan. […] -
Better Heritage Park Planning Process
Posted on May 13, 2025Organization of PROS Plan
The organization of the plan needs improvement. Here are examples of improvements needed in the organization of the plan:
Figure 1-1(p.8) appears to be a depiction of the order of the chapters. The Demand and Needs Analysis chapter is shown as coming before the Goals and Objectives chapter. These are reversed in the text.
Most of the first four pages of the Overview and the Demand & Needs Analysis chapter seems more logically to fit in the Inventory & Assessment chapter which provides background and the general picture of the context for the PROS Plan. […]