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Alternative 3 – Implement More Extensive Management of Vegetation
Alternative 3 assumes that a “naturalized” landscape plan could be developed for the AL
whereby the suite of three broad vegetation communities (grassland, shrubland, and forest)
could be maintained with negligible alteration of the topography. Unlike Alternative 2 which
would tend to create shore-perpendicular bands of pruned and unpruned vegetation depending
on an individual owner’s preference, Alternative 3 would seek to create an interesting diverse
landscape, where open grassland areas are interspersed with shrub and forest hammocks (see
Fig 6.3). Some areas that are presently early successional forest would be cleared of trees
and replanted with grasses, particularly along access trails.
A particular mix of vegetation communities would be defined as the target and specific land-
scape plans for implementation would be developed. For example, if the target mix is 35 per-
cent grassland, 25 percent shrubland, and 40 percent maritime forest, the present inventory
of vegetation communities would allow estimates of how much of each must be removed or
added to achieve and maintain the target quantities. Once a basic landscape plan is devel-
oped and implemented, annual maintenance would be required.