Information about Estuaries and Near Coastal Watersfebruary 2001-Issue 11. 1

By Environmental Protection Agency

Book Id: WPLBN0000136612
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.6 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Information about Estuaries and Near Coastal Watersfebruary 2001-Issue 11. 1
Author:	Environmental Protection Agency
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Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


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Description
Excerpt: Given the human pressures on the existing natural systems in the harbor, a critical priority of the program is to secure and protect public and private properties that remain undeveloped. When acquisition is not possible, rigorous restoration must serve as a substitute. Damaged habitat does not necessarily return without intervention. The HWG has documented, through long-term monitoring supported by the NY/NJ Harbor Oil Spill Trustees, that unrestored salt marsh, destroyed by oil spills that occurred as long ago as 1990, has not recovered through natural processes. After a decade, the sites remain denuded; the ecosystemís structure and function has not recovered.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents Protecting and Restoring Urban Watersheds: Conserving Biodiversity in the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Noxious Seaweed Found in Southern California Sowing Seed for Eelgrass Restoration Coastal Restoration through Wetland Mitigation Banking Preserving Land in Barnegat Bay Watershed to Protect Water Quality Volunteer Estuary Monitoring Workshops in the National Estuary Program Northern Hawaiian Islands Reef Ecosystem Reserve