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Anadromous Fish Run Site-Selection Tool
This tool helps restoration planners consider a number of socioeconomic factors like cost and accessibility in setting priorities for restoring fish runs in Rhode Island.
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Applications for Remote Sensing
This site provides examples of how remote sensing technology provides a unique perspective for managers who need to balance social and environmental concerns within a region.
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Costs of Environmental Restoration Projects
This Web page provides an overview of the cost of fish passage, seagrass, and salt marsh restoration. Drawing from studies undertaken since the mid-1980s, this Web page also reviews factors that can affect the cost of restoration projects.
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Integrated Coastal Management Tool
The Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) tool allows users to overlay forecasts of land use change with ICM-generated analyses of habitat patches to set priorities for restoration and conservation planning. The ICM uses remotely sensed land cover data and indicators of ecological function, such as patch size, and the number and proximity of similar habitat patches, to evaluate the quality of habitat patches in coastal areas surrounding Lake St. Clair.
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Land Cover and Land Use
These case studies show how land cover maps combined with knowledge of how communities are using the land can contribute to addressing management issues.
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Mapping Past and Present Oyster Reefs
Diversion of water from the Mississippi River to revitalize the marshes in Louisiana has had a negative impact on oyster production, which in turn has negatively impacted commercial harvesters. The project focuses on the efforts by the state of Louisiana to restore the oysters and provide areas for harvesters to relocate. Side-scan sonar is being used to identify locations of current oyster reefs and suitable substrate for new reefs.
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Restoring and Preserving Wetlands and Riparian Areas
The growing population of Southern California is threatening local wetlands. Nationwide, 75 percent of all coastal wetlands have been destroyed by human activity over the past 150 years, causing in the extinction of many wetlands-dependent species. This project describes the use of remote sensing to obtain biological and physical information that will help managers prioritize recovery and restoration efforts.
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Salmonid Habitat Restoration Planning Resource
These Web pages provide an example of how to integrate social science and other information into planning for salmonid habitat restoration.
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Salt Marsh Site-Selection Tool
This tool helps restoration planners integrate socioeconomic and environmental information to identify and prioritize salt marsh restoration opportunities in Narragansett Bay.
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Seagrass Site-Selection Tool
The Seagrass Site Selection Tool considers human use conflicts along with ecological factors like water depth, light conditions, historic and current eelgrass distributions, and water temperature to identify suitable restoration sites.
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Wai'anae Ecological Characterization
The Hawai'i Coastal Zone Management Program is currently engaging the Wai'anae community and other partners to develop a management framework that applies ahupua'a (a traditional land division) values and practices. The characterization provides cultural and anthropological information for the development of the Wai'anae moku management framework.
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