What’s a Native Growth Protection Area?
A Native Growth Protection Area, also known as an NGPA, is an area designated by legal statute to protect fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, geologically unstable areas, wetlands, and their buffers. These portions of the landscape are either particularly sensitive to development or are potentially hazardous to public health and safety. Streams, wetlands, erosion and landslide hazard areas, seismic and volcanic hazard areas can be classified as NGPAs.
