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Acquiring, Restoring, Maintaining and Monitoring Coastal Wetland Systems: Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project
Biologist E.O. Wilson has identified the planet's 18 "hotspots" in terms of threatened biodiversity. In the United States only Southern California was identified as a hotspot. Southern California's coastal wetlands have been proposed for designation as "Wetlands of International Significance" under the Ramsar Convention. Southern California has lost 90% of its historical wetlands due to development. It has experienced an ongoing rate of growth unmatched by any other region of the world. With only 8.6% of the state's land mass, Southern California has almost 50% of the state's population. Coastal Southern California is a region like no other in terms of the growth and environmental transformation it has experienced. It also stands alone in terms of its geologic, hydrologic, climatic, and ecological characteristics. Wetlands research that has been based primarily on coastal systems of the Atlantic and Gulf region, has resulted in scientific findings, public policies, and educational programs that show little understanding of coastal Southern California's distinctive, highly dynamic wetland conditions. Against this backdrop of loss and lack of understanding, the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project (WRP) was formed in 1998 to develop a coordinated and comprehensive strategy for preserving and restoring the region's waters. The WRP is a partnership of sixteen public agencies working cooperatively to acquire, restore, and enhance coastal wetlands and watersheds in the five coastal counties from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Using a non-regulatory approach and an ecosystem perspective, the WRP identifies wetland acquisition and restoration priorities, prepares plans for these priority sites, pools funds to undertake these projects, implements priority plans, and oversees post-project maintenance and monitoring. To date, the WRP and its agency partners have completed or underway projects that brought over 2,275 acres into public ownership, that restored or enhanced over 600 acres, and that financed studies to restore many more acres of wetlands.
Acquiring, Restoring, Maintaining and Monitoring Coastal Wetland Systems: Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project
Biologist E.O. Wilson has identified the planet's 18 "hotspots" in terms of threatened biodiversity. In the United States only Southern California was identified as a hotspot. Southern California's coastal wetlands have been proposed for designation as "Wetlands of International Significance" under the Ramsar Convention. Southern California has lost 90% of its historical wetlands due to development. It has experienced an ongoing rate of growth unmatched by any other region of the world. With only 8.6% of the state's land mass, Southern California has almost 50% of the state's population. Coastal Southern California is a region like no other in terms of the growth and environmental transformation it has experienced. It also stands alone in terms of its geologic, hydrologic, climatic, and ecological characteristics. Wetlands research that has been based primarily on coastal systems of the Atlantic and Gulf region, has resulted in scientific findings, public policies, and educational programs that show little understanding of coastal Southern California's distinctive, highly dynamic wetland conditions. Against this backdrop of loss and lack of understanding, the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project (WRP) was formed in 1998 to develop a coordinated and comprehensive strategy for preserving and restoring the region's waters. The WRP is a partnership of sixteen public agencies working cooperatively to acquire, restore, and enhance coastal wetlands and watersheds in the five coastal counties from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Using a non-regulatory approach and an ecosystem perspective, the WRP identifies wetland acquisition and restoration priorities, prepares plans for these priority sites, pools funds to undertake these projects, implements priority plans, and oversees post-project maintenance and monitoring. To date, the WRP and its agency partners have completed or underway projects that brought over 2,275 acres into public ownership, that restored or enhanced over 600 acres, and that financed studies to restore many more acres of wetlands.
Acquiring, Restoring, Maintaining and Monitoring Coastal Wetland Systems: Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project
Matsuyama, Kathie (author)
California and the World Ocean 2002 ; 2002 ; Santa Barbara, California, United States
California and the World Ocean '02 ; 663-677
2005-03-16
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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