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Chapter 3 - Policies For Each Management Unit

Background Mining and Mineral Potential. The U.S. Bureau of Mines hasidentified an area approximately one-mile wide on Douglas Island alongGastineau Channel as having high mineral potential.

North Douglas Waterfront. Most of the uplands adjacent to thestate tidelands and submerged lands in this subunit are in private owner-ship. Uplands adjacent to the Douglas Bridge are used for industrial andcommercial uses. The adjacent uplands support private homes along theNorth Douglas Highway. Subunits 8a6 and 8a8 were designated SpecialWaterfront Areas by the revised Juneau Coastal Management Plan.Subunit 8a6 is used for barge unloading and storage of unloaded contain-ers and materials awaiting distribution throughout the city. Fuel storagetanks have recently been placed on the adjacent privately-owned up-lands. An application is pending in this subunit for a breakwater to ex-tend onto state tidelands that will involve dredging and include a boatgrid. A marina may be proposed for this subunit. Subunit 8a8 includesthe west end of the Douglas Island Bridge. DOTPF is considering re-con-figuring the intersection at the west end of Douglas Island Bridge.There are a number of homes, businesses, and industrial sites along theNorth Douglas Highway. Businesses include a car dealer, trailer park,gravel pit, and helicopter company. CBJ has applied for a public ease-ment for a water distribution line from Juneau to Douglas along the ref-uge boundary (ADL104585) in Subunits Sal and 8a9. The pipeline hasbeen placed and is buried on the bottom of the channel.The state tidelands and submerged lands receive heavy use by pleasure,charter, and commercial fishing boats traveling along Gastineau Channel.Barges also travel through the area and are frequently moored in the chan-nel. The channel also offers wildlife viewing opportunities, and salmonand Dolly Varden sport fishing is common by Eagle Creek. Four anadro-mous stream mouths are located within this unit including Falls, Eagle,Grant, and Kowee creeks.

Fish and Eagle Creeks. The primary purpose for the 1989 selectionof the uplands in Subunit 8a26 was for a communication site and for rec-reation (NFCG314). Communication facilities are already authorized inthis subunit. The Department of Administration (DOA) has applied foran ILMA (ADL 105539) for a 20-foot tower at the summit of Saddle Moun-tain and a right-of-way for a power cable. KTOO has applied for a leasefor two 80-foot towers on Tabletop Mountain (ADL 105537) and a right-of-way (ADL 105579). The right-of-way for both the DOA and KTOO appli-cations will follow the same route across USFS lands to the road. TheJuneau Trails Plan proposes trails over Saddle and Tabletop mountainsand up Eagle Creek and Mount Troy.Subunit 8a25 was originally selected for community expansion and com-munity recreation including expansion of the Eaglecrest Ski Area (NFCG314 and 103). Lands along the road corridor suitable for settlement havebeen conveyed to CBJ. The CBJ Comprehensive Plan designates FishCreek as a Watershed Protection Area. The Juneau Trails Plan proposes atrail over Mount Stewart to Cropley Lake. The plan also proposes a pub-lic-use cabin in this subunit.

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North Douglas Waterfront. Subunits 8a6 and 8a8 will be managedfor waterfront development and transportation while minimizing significantadverse impacts on sport fish harvest at the mouth of Kowee Creek forwhich these subunits are co-designated. Subunits with anadromous streammouths (8a5,8a7,8a9, Sail) will be managed to protect habitat while accom-modating limited shoreline development associated with private uplandownership. Mid-channel subunits will be managed primarily to accommo-date navigation and moorings for barges and other craft while minimizingsignificant adverse impacts on the habitat and harvest activities for whichthese subunits are co-designated. Improvements on adjacent private andCBJ tidelands that extend on to state tidelands are an allowable use.

Fish Creek and Eagle Creek Drainages. Subunits 8a25 and 8a26will be managed for recreation, communication facilities, and watershedprotection for Fish Creek. Although an expansion of Eaglecrest is not cur-rently proposed, facilities associated with Eaglecrest and its expansionmay be authorized in this area in the future. Authorizing communicationfacilities is compatible with the management intent for Subunit 8a26.

Managementguidelines

Commercial Recreation Leasing. Commercial recreation leasingfor facilities associated with the Eaglecrest Ski Area may be authorized inSubunits 8a25 and 8a26.

Floathomes. Floathomes are prohibited in this unit on state tidelandsand submerged lands except within developed marinas consistent withthe Juneau Coastal Management Plan.

Kowee Creek. In Subunit 8a7, a public fishing pier may be authorizedon the southeast side of Kowee Creek.

Mineral Closures. Approximately forty (40) acres of tidelands andsubmerged lands adjacent to the fish hatchery at Kowee Creek and the es-tuarine area, from mean high water to a water depth of 40 feet (measuredat mean low low water) at the mouth of Kowee Creek will be closed tonew mineral location to protect important rearing areas for anadromousfish. The maintenance of the high-quality estuarine rearing habitat adja-cent to this stream and the avoidance of impacts to the associated waterquality and marine plant and animal communities are essential to sustainthe productivity of the commercial- and community- harvest fisheries inthe Juneau area. The hatchery and the fisheries it supports are also criti-cally dependent on this estuarine rearing habitat. The closure is also in-tended to protect the significant state and private investment in thesehatcheries. A map of this closure can be found in Mineral Order 653 inAppendix B.

West End of Douglas Bridge. Before issuing authorizations inSubunit 8a8, DNR should consult with DOTPF to ensure that the pro-posed activities do not unreasonably limit options for re-configuring theintersection at the end of the bridge.

16 For additional information about commercial recreation leasing, see Chapter 2, Recreation, Tourism, and ScenicResources section.

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CBJ Watershed Control Program. In order to protect a potential fu-ture community water supply identified in the CBJ Comprehensive Plan,when CBJ formalizes it's Watershed Control Program by ordinance forFish Creek, DNR will manage state lands in this watershed consistentwith this program. This may include implementation of mineral ordersthat may be adopted without an amendment to the plan.



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