Current Activities 2011 - 2012
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Updated NWI data for Moosehorn and Sunhaze National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs).
Updating NWI data for Great Bay and Pondicherry NWRs.
In the process of completing statewide update of NWI funded by Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection including NWIPlus data, recent trends analysis, statewide landscape-level wetland functional assessment, and an inventory of potential wetland restoration sites – report planned for Fall of 2012; planning an eelgrass inventory for the eastern end of Long Island Sound for the summer of 2012 (report scheduled for FY2013); updated NWI data for McKinney NWR.
Completed report on wetland status and functions for Cape Cod and the Islands (see list below); updated and enhanced NWI data for central and western Massachusetts: added hydrogeomorphic-type descriptors (LLWW descriptors for landscape position, landform, water flow path, and waterbody type) to the geospatial data; updated NWI data for Monomoy and Parker River NWRs.
Performing a rapid update (major changes only) of NWI data and plan to produce report on wetland status and functions for the entire state by end of 2012.
Completed report on updated NWI for Long Island (see list below); working on other reports addressing recent trends, historic trends from early 1900s, island-wide wetland functional assessment, and inventory of potential wetland restoration sites; completing historic trends assessment for the greater Buffalo area - report scheduled for late 2012; conducting an inventory of unmapped areas of the Lake Ontario watershed along with updates in selected areas – part of a multi-year effort to improve wetland data (funded by EPA through the Great Lakes wetlands restoration initiative).
Applying rapid updating techniques to make recent NWI updates more current and creating NWIPlus database by finalizing LLWW classification for the state's wetlands, will then use data to generate a statewide landscape-level wetland functional assessment, and publish report on the state's wetlands by Fall of 2012; updating NWI data for Forsythe, Supwana Meadows, and Cape May NWRs.
Completed statewide update of NWI and produced interagency-cooperative state report (including current status, recent trends analysis, and statewide landscape-level wetland functional assessment – see link to report below); other reports planned (e.g., an inventory of potential wetland restoration sites).
Updating and enhancing NWI data for much of Maryland's coastal zone; updating NWI data for the Blackwater and Eastern Neck NWRs.
Updating NWI data for Erie/French Creek NWRs; plan to update and enhance NWI data for the Lake Erie watershed of Pennsylvania (funded by Pennsylvania Coastal Resources Management Program) – expected completion in 2013.
Updating and enhancing NWI data along the mainstem of the James River; updating NWI data for the following NWRs: Back Bay, Chincoteague, James River, Presquille, and Wallops Island.
Updating NWI data for Canaan Valley NWR.
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