Status And Trends Of Wetlands In The Conterminous United States 1986 To 1997 December 2000 PDF Download

Excerpt from Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States 1986 to 1997 The study incorporated all wetlands, regardless of land ownership, as part of the sampled landscape. Because wetlands in coastal areas are important to a variety of fish and wildlife species, this study included them by adding a supplemental sampling stratum along the Atlantic and Gulf coastal fringes. Determining what caused wetland loss or gains is an important part of assessing the effectiveness of policy or management actions. As part of this study, the Service worked with other Federal agencies to examine and field test wetland loss and gain attribution categories. Wetland losses and gains have been assigned to five general categories: upland urban development, upland agriculture, upland silviculture, upland rural development, and other miscellaneous lands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.