National Wetlands Inventory

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

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://www.wes.army.mil/el/
wetlands/wlpubs.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

Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources

http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/research/IHP/

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/

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

Second National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration, September 12-15

Restore America’s Estuaries,
Seattle, Washington

http://www.estuaries.org/2ndnational
conference.php

Watershed 2004, July 11-14.

Water Environment Federation, in Dearborn, Michigan

http://www.wef.org/Conferences

Climate

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

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

Delineation of Wetlands

Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands

Federal Interagency Committee for Wetland Delineation. 1989

http://www.wes.army.mil/el/wetlands/
pdfs/wlman87.pdf

Events/Conventions/Meetings

Grants/Cost-share Funding/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/

Maps/Mapping/Mapping needs

Aerial photographs

USGS site for ordering aerial photos

http://edc.usgs.gov

California, NWI polygon data

California Digital Conservation Atlas
of the CA Legacy Program

http://legacy.ca.gov/new_atlas.epl

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

Kentucky, NWI data not available through Mapper

Kentucky

http://www.uky.edu/KGS/gis/
othermaps.html

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

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/

National Map

The National Map, USGS

http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/nmjump.html

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

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

Tennessee, NWI data not available through Mapper

Tennessee

http://63.148.169.50/

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, issues

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

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

Section 404 of the Clean Water Act

http://www.usace.army.mil/inet
/functions/cw/cecwo/reg/sec404.htm

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

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)

GPO, U.S. Government Printing Office

official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

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

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

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/

Restoration/Protection

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

Massachusetts Wetlands Restoration Program

Massachusetts Office of Coastal
Zone Management

http://www.mass.gov/czm/wrp/index.htm

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

Stream Restoration

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

http://www.usda.gov/stream_restoration/

Soils

Hydric soils information

http://www.statlab.iastat.edu/
soils/hydric

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

Training

Natural Resources Management Training

USGS, Fort Collins Science Center Online, includes HEP, HSI, LIAM

http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/products
/training/training.asp

Training Workshop Schedule, Lafayette, LA

National Wetlands Research
Center, USGS

http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov
/training/2k4train.htm

Watertrain, Environmental Protection Agency

on-line training in wetlands
functions and values

http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/wetlands/

Wetland Training Classes, 2004 Schedule

Association of State Wetlands Managers

http://www.aswm.org/calendar/
calendar.htm#training

Types of Wetlands/Habitats

National Geographic/Geography Action/Habitat

http://nationalgeographic.com/
geographyaction

Vernal pool information

http://www.vernalpool.org

Volunteering and Awards

National Wetlands Awards Program

Environmental Law Institute

http://www.eli.org/nwa/nwaprogram.htm

Take Pride in America

Conservation activities you can do and awards program.

http://takepride.gov

USAFreedomCorps.gov

List of other conservation activities and to track your volunteer activities.

http://USAFreedomCorps.gov

Volunteer.Gov/gov

List of volunteer opportunities within the Federal government.

http://Volunteer.Gov/gov

Wetlands, General Information

Information on Wetlands

WATERSHEDSS (WATER, Soil, Hydro-environmental Decision
Support System), non-point source pollution control

http://h2osparc.wq.ncsu.edu/
info/wetlands/index.html

National Wetlands Mitagation Action Plan

COE, NOAA, EPA,DOI, USDA, DOT

http://www.mitigationactionplan.gov/

What are wetlands? Why protect wetlands? How are wetlands protected? What you can do...

Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, EPA

http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands

Wildlife

Beavers: Wetlands and Wildlife

About beavers and structures to control beaver caused flooding.

http://www.beaversww.org

Biodiversity

NBII, National Biological Information Infrastructure

http://www.nbii.gov/issues
/biodiversity/index.html

Biology in the News

NBII, National Biological Information Infrastructure

http://www.nbii.gov/issues
/bionews/index.html

Bird Conservation, Population and Habitat Data

NBII, National Biological Information Infrastructure

http://birdcon.nbii.gov
/monitoring_links.html

FrogWeb: Amphibian Declines and Deformities

NBII, National Biological Information Infrastructure

http://www.frogweb.gov/

Microinvertebrates key, New York State

Pictorial key to wetland/stream macroinvertebrates.

http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website
/dow/stream/index.htm

Rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems

NatureServe homepage

http://www.natureserve.org/

National Wetlands Inventory

Wetland Links - Outside Organizations