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Calendars/Events/Conventions/Meetings/
Climate/Weather
Coastal
Delineation of Wetlands
Educators/Kids link to the Fish and Wildlife Service's wetlands Kids and Educators page
Grants/Cost-share Funding/Financial Assistance/Technical Assistance
Invasive Species
Laws and Legislation
Maps/Mapping/Mapping needs
Online Bibliographic Resources
Organizations
Plants
Publications - (see also more specific topics)
Restoration/Protection
Service Programs link to the Fish and Wildlife Service's Wetlands Programs page
Soils
Standards
States
Status and Trends
Training
Types of Wetlands
Volunteering and Awards
Wetlands, General Information
Wildlife

 
ORGANIZATION or TITLE SUBJECT or COMMENT LINK
Assessment/Monitoring    
Ecological Assessment Methods, A Compendium National lnventory Survey, U.S. National Park Service http://ecosurvey.gmu.edu/index.html
Estuary Restoration Monitoring NOAA - Guidance Manual for monitoring plans under the Estuaries and Clean Waters Act of 2000 http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/
ecosystems/estuaries/restoration_
monitoring.html
GAP Analysis Program USGS, scientific means for assessing to what extent native animal and plant species are being protected, maps http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/
Gap Analysis - Southwest Regional, provisional
(Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah)		 SWReGAP: Federal, State, Private, and Educational cooperative effort http://earth.gis.usu.edu/swgap/
Habitat Evaluation Proceedures (HEP) USGS, Fort Collins Science Center Online http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products
/software/hep/hep.asp
Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) USGS, Fort Collins Science Center Online http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products
/software/hsin/hsin.asp
Habitat Suitability Models FWS publications served by USGS, NWRC http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/wdb/
pub/hsi/hsiintro.htm
Hydrogeomorphic (HGM) publications U.S. Army Corps of Engineers http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/wetlands/
hgmhp.html
Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM)
software 		USGS, Fort Collins Science Center Online http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products
/software/ifim/ifim.asp
  Instream Flow Incremental Methodology
publications 		USGS, Fort Collins Science Center Online http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products
/Publications/IFIM_pubs_Year.asp		  
IFIM and HEP Training USGS, Fort Collins Science Center http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/products
/training/training.asp" target="_parent"
Instream Habitat Program University of Massachusetts, Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation http://www.neihp.org/
NAWQA (National Water Quality Assessment Data Warehouse) USGS - Includes invertebrate community data from 1,700 stream sites http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/servlet/page?_
pageid=543&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30
Water quality assessment and monitoring grants and cooperative agreements Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/rfp/
Assessments/Studies    
Integrated Assessment Program. Part 5: Biogeochemical and Hydrological Investigations of Natural and Mitigation Wetlands Ohio EPA Technical Report WET 2004-5. Funded in part by EPA. http://www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/wetlands/
Part5_Mitigation_Study.pdf
     
Calendars/Events/Conventions/Meetings
  American Wetlands Month - May hosted by the Izaak Walton League
of America, supported by many agencies		 http://www.iwla.org  
Marine and coastal calendar Marine Technology Society,
Wash., D.C.		 http://www.mtsociety.org/sections/
dc/calendar.html
Wetlands calendars Association of State Wetland Managers, both ASWM events and National calendars: http://www.aswm.org/calendar/index.htm
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/calendar.htm
  World Wetlands Day, February 2 Hosted by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands http://ramsar.org/wwd2005_index.htm  
     
Climate/Weather    
Climate Analysis for Wetlands by County Natural Resources Conservation Service
 http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov
/climate/wetlands.html
Climate Data, WETS Table Documentation Natural Resources Conservation Service http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov
/climate/wets_doc.html
Global Climate Change and Wildlife in North America The Wildlife Society, Technical Review 04-2, 2004 http://www.wildlife.org/publications/
climate_change_technical_review.pdf
Hurricanes and sea level rise USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/hurricane/katrina.htm
  Sea Level Rise Modeling - SLAMM Warren Pinnacle Consulting http://www.warrenpinnacle.com/prof/SLAMM/index.html  
     
Coastal    

Coast Alliance

http://www.coastalliance.org
Coastlines National Estuary Program newsletter http://www.epa.gov/nep/coastlines/
National Estuary Program homepage Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/owow/
estuaries/links.htm#neps
Information Exchange for Marine Educators NOAA Office of Education http://mpa.gov/helpful_resources/
education_ training.html
     
Delineation of Wetlands    
Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands Federal Interagency Committee for Wetland Delineation. 1989 http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/wetlands/
pdfs/wlman87.pdf
     
Grants/Cost-share Funding/Financial Assistance/Technical Assistance
Conservation on Private Lands Matching Grants National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in partnership with USDA/National Resources Conservation Agency http://www.nfwf.org/programs/nrcsnacd.htm
Conservation Reserve Program U.S.D.A. Farm Service Agency, on eligible cropland to conserve soil, water, and wildlife http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/
publications/facts/pubfacts.htm
Conservation Technical Assistance National Resources Conservation Service, to assist land-user, communities, agencies http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/NRCSProg.html
Emergency Watershed Protection Program National Resources Conservation Service, to protect lives and property following natural disasters

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/ewp/
Environmental Quality Incentives Program National Resources Conservation Service, conservation practices in livestock or agricultural production

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/eqip/
  Five Star Restoration Program Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/owow/
wetlands/restore/5star/		  
  Grants to States for State Revolving Funds (SRF) Environmental Protection Agency
for water quality activities		 http://www.epa.gov/OWM  
  NOAA Community-based Restoration Program National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration,
restore marine fish habitat		 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/
habitat/restoration		  
  Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/owow/NPS  
  Planning Assistance to States Program, Section
22 of the Water Resources Development Act 		Corps of Engineers, local district office, technical studies

http://www.lrd.usace.army.mil/gl/22.htm

  
  Taking Wing U.S.D.A. Forest Service,
partnerships on Forest Service lands		 http://www.fs.fed.us/biology/
wildlife/takingwing/index.html 		 
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention National Resources Conservation Service, on private lands http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs
/watershed/
Wetlands Program Development Grants Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands
/grantguidelines/
Wetlands Reserve Program National Resources Conservation Service, easement or cost-share restoration agreement http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/wrp/
Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program National Resources Conservation Service, develop and improve habitat http://www.nrcs.usda.gov
/programs/whip/
Invasive Species
Asian Carp: common, grass, bighead, silver and black carp

USGS, Upper Midwest Science Center.
and
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, i.d.

 http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/
invasive_species/asian_carp.html
and
http://wwwaux.cerc.cr.usgs.gov/MICRA/
Asian%20Carp%20Key%20MICRA.pdf
  Laws and Legislation      
Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act digest and law

http://laws.fws.gov/lawsdigest/coaswet.html
and
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
html/uscode16/usc_sup_01_16_10_59A.html
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act digest and law
 http://laws.fws.gov/lawsdigest/emwet.html
and
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
html/uscode16/usc_sup_01_16_10_59.html
Legislative Watch NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) http://www.nrdc.org/legislation/legwatch.asp
  Section 404 of the Clean Water Act USACE http://www.usace.army.mil/inet
/functions/cw/cecwo/reg/sec404.htm		  
         
Maps/Mapping/Mapping needs    
Aerial photographs USGS site for ordering aerial photos http://edc.usgs.gov
Canada Atlas Natural Resources, Canada http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html
Geospatial One-stop E-government initiative your one stop for federal, state, and local geographic data http://www.geodata.gov
  Land Use and Land Cover Classification System
for Use with Remote Sensing		 A revision to the land use classification system in USGS Circular 671, James R. Anderson, et al. 1976 http://landcover.usgs.gov/pdf/anderson.pdf  
National Map The National Map, USGS http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/nmjump.html
  Southeast U.S. Spatial Data National Wetlands Research Center, USGS http://sdms.nwrc.gov/pub/data.html  
State NWI coverages and complete NWI database for purchase in CD-Rom GISDataDepot http://www.gisdatadepot.com
USGS topographic maps free access to USGS topo maps http://www.topozone.com
Wetland maps overlaid on USGS topo maps or DOQQ's for viewing online. GeoTIF, PDF or other formats for purchase. Gecko Software Mapping Solutions http://www.wetlandmaps.com
     
Online Bibliographic Resources    
Isolated Wetlands Bibliography Association of State Wetland Managers http://www.aswm.org/science/isolated.htm
Online Library National Wetlands Research Center http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/
library.htm
Recommended Online Databases National Wetlands Research Center http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/lib
/recomend.htm
     
Organizations    
Association of State Wetlands Managers wetland news, publications, events, training, issues: wetland assessment, isolated wetlands, wetlands and migratory birds http://www.aswm.org
Environmental Protection Agency
 Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, excellent information
on wetlands

http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands
Federal Highway Administration Wetlands page with publications, rules and guidance, links, pictures http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/
wetland/index.htm
National Wetlands Research Center, USGS wetlands information, fact sheets including global climate change, training, wetland values database http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov
National States Geospatial Information Council State-level geospatial information, contacts, links http://www.nsgic.org/
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Wetlands research http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/wetlands/
Penn State Cooperative Wetland Center http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/CAS
DEPT/FOREST/wetlands/
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially
as Waterfowl Habitat		 http://ramsar.org/strp_rest_index.htm
  Society of Wetlands Scientists search and browse past issues of Wetlands Journal http://www.sws.org  
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Laboratory Wetlands http://www.wes.army.mil/el/wetlands/
wetlands.html
     
  Technical and Biological information http://www.usace.army.mil/inet
/functions/cw/cecwo/reg/techbio.htm
 

Waterways Experiment Station

http://www.wes.army.mil/el/
wrtc/wrtc.html		  
  Wetlands and Waterways
Regulation and Permitting		 http://www.usace.army.mil
/public.html#Regulatory
Wetlands Publications http://www.wes.army.mil
/el/wetlands/wlpubs.html
  Wetlands International list of wetland links organized by subject,
and
Wetland Bookmarks 		http://www.wetlands.org/links/
subjects.htm
and
http://www.wetlands.org/links/
WetlandBookmarks.htm 		 
  Wetland Science Institute, USDA http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/wli  
     
Plants
Aquatic, Wetland, and Invasive Plant Information Retrieval System University of Florida http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants   http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/
Biota of North America Program (BONAP)   http://www.bonap.org
Invasive Species Information NBII, National Biological Information Infrastructure http://invasivespecies.nbii.gov/index.html
Multiple Entry Key Algorithm (MEKA)   http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/meka/
meka.html
Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping: Chesapeake Bay Watershed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chesapeake Bay Field Office. Slattery et al. 2003 http://www.nps.gov/plants/pubs/chesapeake/
Plants Database, NRCS/USDA   http://plants.usda.gov/
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
 Western Flora

Midwestern Flora

Northeast Flora

Southern Flora

Aquatic and Wetland Vascular
Plants of the Northern Great Plains 		http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource
/othrdata/westflor/westflor.htm
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource
/othrdata/plntguid/plntguid.htm
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource
/1999/neflor/neflor.htm
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource
/1999/soutflor/soutflor.htm
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource
/1999/vascplnt/vascplnt.htm
   
Publications (see also specific headings)  
  Federal Wetlands Manual 1989   http://www.fws.gov/nwi/Pubs_Reports/
Federal_Wetlands_Manual_1989.pdf		  
GPO, U.S. Government Printing Office official information from all three branches of the Federal Government. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
Guide to Nebraska's Wetlands Nebraska Game and Parks Comm. http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/
programs/wetlands/
International Wetlands Publications Conservation International http://www.wetlands.org/
pubs&/wetland_pub.html
National Assessment of Shoreline Change: Part 1, Historical Shoreline Changes and Associated Coastal Land Loss Along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico U.S.G.S., Morton, et al. 2004 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1043/index.html
National Water Summary on Wetland Resources U.S.G.S., National Water Summary; Fretwell, et al., Compilers. 1996 http://water.usgs.gov/nwsum/
WSP2425/index.html
National Wetlands Research Center publications National Wetlands Research Center (20 years of DOI wetland research under USGS, NBS, and FWS) http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/library.htm
National Wetlands Newsletter Environmental Law Institute http://www2.eli.org/nwn/nwnmain.cfm
Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping: Chesapeake Bay Watershed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chesapeake Bay Field Office. Slattery et al. 2003 http://www.nps.gov/plants/pubs/chesapeake/
North American Waterfowl Management Plan U.S.F.W.S., Canada, Mexico,
Joint Ventures		 http://birdhabitat.fws.gov/NAWMP/nawmphp.htm
An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, September 20, 2004, report to the President and Congress http://www.oceancommission.gov/
Ramsar Handbooks for the Wise Use of Wetlands, 2nd edition, in English, French, Spanish The Ramsar Convention on
Wetlands, Ramsar, Iran, 1971, international wetlands conservation		 http://www.ramsar.org/lib_handbooks_e.htm
Sea-level Rise and the Coastal Forests of the
Gulf of Mexico. 		U.S.G.S., Williams, et al. http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/wetlands/ofr99-441/index.html
Strategic Interagency Approach to Developing a National Digital Wetlands Data Base Wetlands Subcommittee, Federal Geographic Data Committee. 1994 http://www.fws.gov/nwi/Pubs_Reports/
Strategic_Interagency_Approach.pdf
Wetland Breaking News and other publications Association of State Wetland Managers http://www.aswm.org/propub/
index.htm#pubs
Wetlands, The Journal of the SWS Society of Wetlands Scientists http://www.sws.org/wetlands/
A Guide to Creating Vernal Pools by Thomas A. Biebighauser, National Forest Service. All the information you need to build and maintain an ephemeral wetland. http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/boone/vernal.pdf
     
Restoration/Protection    
  Using Local Watershed Planning to Protect Wetlands Center for Watershed Protection Prepared for EPA http://www.cwp.org/  
Best Management Practices for Environmental Issues Related to Highway and Street Maintenance Transportation Research Board, National Research Council http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/21000/
21800/21818/PB99143489.pdf
An Introduction to Wetland Restoration, Creation, and Enhancement (A guide for the public) Developed by the Interagency Workgroup on Wetlands Restoration: EPA, NOAA, COE, FWS, NRCS http://www.epa.gov/owow
/wetlands/pdf/restdocfinal.pdf
Invasive species - Restoring Native Species Federal Inter-agency website http://www.invasivespecies.gov/toolkit/
restoration.shtml
Massachusetts Wetlands Restoration Program Massachusetts Office of Coastal
Zone Management		 http://www.mass.gov/czm/wrp/index.htm
Michigan, Restoring the Connections - Stories of Ecosystem Restoration in the Great Lakes (PDF file)

Michigan, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council http://www.watershedcouncil.org/63384.pdf
Online Bibliographic Resources - 3,000 restoration entries Northern Prairie Science Center
and the Midcontinent Ecological Science Center

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource
/literatr/wetresto/wetresto.htm
Reestablishment of Bottomland Hardwood Forests on Disturbed Sites: An Annotated Bibliography Biological Report 88(42)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service		 http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/wdb/
pub/biorepts/88_42.pdf
A Resource Book for Protecting Resources and Communities Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/ecocommunity/
pdf/coverrev.pdf
Restoration Science Resources page Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/
restore/science.html
Guidelines for Planning Riparian Restoration in the Southwest USDA/NRCS http://www.nm.nrcs.usda.gov/1story.html
Stream Restoration

Stream Corridor Restoration, Principles, Processes, and Practices
by the Federal Interagency Stream Corridor Restoration Working Group

 http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/
stream_restoration/
     
Soils    
Hydric Soils of the United States Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA http://soils.usda.gov/use/hydric/
All about soils Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA http://soils.usda.gov

Soils Data Mart, and

Data Gateway

 Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA
USDA, one-stop source of natural resources data, download requests for more than one survey area (option of CD & DVD)

http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/

http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/
         
Standards
Technical Standard for Water-Table Monitoring of Potential Wetland Sites U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2005 http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/wrap/
techtran.html#technote
         
  States      
  California, NWI polygon data California Digital Conservation Atlas
of the CA Legacy Program		 http://legacy.ca.gov/new_atlas.epl  
Florida NWI/DRGs polygon overlays in PDF Florida, Department of Environmental Protection, LABINS (Land Boundary Information System) http://data.labins.org/2003/MappingData/
NWI/nwi.cfm
  Kentucky, NWI data not available through Mapper Kentucky http://www.uky.edu/KGS/gis/
othermaps.html		  
  Maryland, NWI wetlands data Maryland http://mdmerlin.net  
  Minnesota Restorable Wetlands maps Ducks Unlimited for The Restorable Wetlands Working Group (glaciated prairie pothole region of MN & IA) http://prairie.ducks.org/index.cfm?
&page=minnesota/restorablewetlands/
home.htm		  
  Montana, NWI wetlands data and other wetlands information, plus DRG's & DOQ's Montana http://nhp.nris.state.mt.us/  
  Nebraska Wetlands Guide to Nebraska's Wetlands, Nebraska Game and Parks Comm. http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/
programs/wetlands/		  
  North Carolina Division of Coastal Management wetlands page http://dcm2.enr.state.nc.us
/Wetlands/wetlands.htm		  
  South Carolina, NWI wetlands data (and uplands data not available through Mapper) South Carolina, Department of
Natural Resources		 http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/
gisdata/index.html		  
  Tennessee, NWI data not available through Mapper Tennessee http://www.state.tn.us/twra/gis/nwimain.HTML  
Virginia NWI statistics by hyrologic unit Virginia Institute of