Coastal wetlands of the United States: An accounting of a valuable national resource: a special NOAA 20th anniversary report
Date
1991
Authors
Field, Donald W., Anthony J. Reyer, Paul V. Genovese, and Beth D. Shearer
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Publisher
U.S Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
This report describes NOAA's recently completed national database describing the distribution and abundance of coastal wetlands in the conterminous United States. This project is one element of NOAA's National Estuaries Inventory (NEI). The NEI is a series of activities that define and characterize the Nation's estuarine resource base and develop a national estuarine assessment capability. The wetlands data presented in this report are organized by estuary and region as defined in the most recent update of the NEI (NOAA, 1990), described in Appendix A.
Description
59 pgs.
Keywords
wetlands, coasts, inventory, coastal wetlands, flood protection