Protect Metrics
Protect and restore critical natural resources to ensure a resilient environment that supports healthy communities.
Metric 4 — Natural Resource Protection
Track the number of adopted municipal ordinance regulations that effectively protect natural resources.
Metric Results
There was no change for 2024. Since 2018, the total number of natural resource protection ordinances has increased modestly. This trend can be partially attributed to many of the county’s municipalities having already updated such ordinances in the 2000s and 2010s.
Metric 5 — Stream Health
Monitor aquatic life diversity as an indicator of overall stream health.
Metric Results
in 2024, the number of streams with good to excellent health, based on the Benthic-macroinvertebrate Index, has remained relatively constant since 2018. These fluctuations indicate that climate conditions, like rainfall and overall temperatures, are impacting stream health more than changing land use conditions.
