Toward a Watershed Approach: A Framework for Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, Protection, and Management

Abstract

In keeping with the ongoing commitment of the Executive Office to ecosystem-based natural resource protection and management, Coastal America has developed this document on aquatic ecosystem protection and restoration throught watershed-based resource management approaches. The underlying themes that Coastal America wishes to emphasize are two-fold: (1) aquatic ecosystems, which are intrinisically related to the hydrogeologic characteristics of watersheds, are most effectively addressed in a watershed context; and (2) truly comprehensive watershed approaches can only succeed with the collaboration and cooperation of the full range of parties with jurisdiction over, and interest in, the resources at stake.

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28 pages; available for download at the link below.

Keywords

watershed protection, environmental protection

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