Climate and Energy Action Plan (CEAP)

2 water conservation and wildfire land management. 9/17/2016 9:50 PM 3 The most critical element in negatively impacting Ashland is annual water availability. I expect wildfires to increase as the climate dries and heats but water availability is the most critical element for life here. 9/4/2016 7:46 PM 4 Living here since 1988, water has always been an issue. We need to always be conserving water in good years as well as bad years. Conservation is a habit. 8/31/2016 2:10 PM 5 watering lawn 6/22/2016 12:06 PM 6 Ha-ha. I am concerned because our town could burn down or if we don't get snow like in past years, we could have no water. No water=no life. 6/14/2016 11:10 AM 7 Drought, especially, can severely impact our ability to be a sustainable community, especially our ability to produce food. 6/10/2016 4:12 PM 8 Wildfire risk: I'm selfish, hate the smoke. Also hate the destruction of habitat for animals and plants. Snowpack and water availability: this has a major impact on daily life here. It appears the snowpack can't be counted on to provide water through the summer, so another plan (more reservoirs?) needs to be put into place. 6/9/2016 8:58 PM 9 We may not be able to sustain our quality of life or support our population density 6/8/2016 11:19 AM 10 very concerned about air quality while raising children especially, and quality of life concerning heat 6/8/2016 6:25 AM 11 All of these issues can have life or death consequences. 6/7/2016 6:13 PM 12 All of these things affect our daily lives and the ecconomy 6/6/2016 1:25 PM 13 Each of the above items are inter-related and direct results of increasing temperatures. 6/3/2016 4:55 PM 14 It is too hot and dry. The forests are always catching fire. 6/2/2016 8:25 PM 15 the viability of Ashland. 6/2/2016 2:57 PM 16 Catastrophic fire could destroy our watershed and surrounding forest lands jeopardizing one of our water sources as well as killing many species. 6/2/2016 11:10 AM 17 As Ashland gets more and more known for its bad air quality due to summer wildfire smoke and smog, it will have a negative impact on quality of life and future business success. 6/2/2016 10:17 AM 18 It is my understanding that these are the realities with increasing intensity as the years go by 6/2/2016 10:08 AM 19 In the last 10 years (I know it is just a nano-second of the life of the universe) we have seen the impact of the above. I also wonder if the clear-cutting is actually helpful to prevent forest fires. I know nothing about this, but intuitively it does not really seem to be. 6/2/2016 9:44 AM 20 I grew up in Ashland and the climate is decidedly different from the 50s and 60s -- more extreme heat in summer, less snow and cold in winter. 6/2/2016 8:54 AM 21 Reducing the local temperatures to lower fire danger, keeping waterways cool, managing the forests 6/2/2016 8:42 AM 22 These all are integrated with one another. Each one is concerning and they are happening all at the same time. 6/2/2016 8:01 AM 23 Effect on food supply, species survival. Fire 6/2/2016 4:28 AM 24 These impacts have already started and will only get worse. 6/1/2016 11:13 PM 25 ...climate change! 6/1/2016 7:45 PM 26 All of these are in-store. The one thing we can truly influence is wildfire risk (creating more resilient forests); water availability will be next, but changes in snow pack are now unavoidable - ditto for extremes of precip and temperature. Responses to these (aside from reducing GHG) will be mostly reactionary. 6/1/2016 7:07 PM 27 These things are all related so I rated them equally. 6/1/2016 6:13 PM 28 As you see, I am "Very concerned" about all four. 6/1/2016 6:08 PM 29 water availability has a major impact for this region 6/1/2016 4:55 PM 30 we don't function well as humans if we don't have water. 6/1/2016 3:17 PM 31 you have no idea what will happen in the next 2 years let alone the next 50. Your computer models are based on guess work and bias. 6/1/2016 3:07 PM 32 Our water supply is linked to snow 6/1/2016 2:25 PM 7 / 26 Ashland Climate and Energy Action Plan: Public Input Survey