Washington State Department of Ecology

Publication Summary

Title	DRAFT Freshwater Wetlands in Washington State - Vol. 1: A Synthesis of the Science
Month-Year Published	August 2003
Online Availability	View this publication in Acrobat PDF format 4519 kilobytes, requires version 4.0 or later of Adobe Acrobat Reader Software get Acrobat Reader Note: This is a large file. See "Related Web Content" below to download individual chapters.
Short Description	This draft guidance is the first of two-volumes on protecting wetlands using the best available science. It was sent out for review in September of 2003. The Core Team involved in the project reviewed all comments and revised the text as appropriate. See "Related Publications" for responses to comments on the draft and the final (current) version. (Also see abstract below)
Publication Number	03-06-016
Author(s)	Dyanne Sheldon, Tom Hruby Ph.D., Patricia Johnson, Kim Harper, Andy McMillan, Stephen Stanley, and Erik Stockdale
Contact	Tom Hruby, (360) 407-7274
Print Availability	Not available as a printed document
Number of pages	446
Keywords	BAS, best available science, freshwater wetlands, wetlands
Related Web Content	Best Available Science for Wetlands web page
Related Publications	Title	Relationship
	Wetlands in Washington State - Volume 1: A Synthesis of the Science	current version
	Responses to Comments on the Draft Freshwater Wetlands in Washington State - Volume 1: A Synthesis of the Science	supporting publication
	Wetlands in Washington State - Volume 2: Guidance for Protecting and Managing Wetlands	part of a series
Abstract	Long Description
	This is the first part of a two-part document. This volume contains a summary and synthesis of the recent literature relevant to the science and management of freshwater wetlands. Volume 1 describes what the scientific literature says about: How environmental factors control the functions of wetlands across the landscape and at individual sites, how freshwater wetlands are classified according to these controls, and what functions are performed by different classes of wetlands in the state How human activities and land uses affect the environmental factors that control wetland functions How disturbances caused by human activities and land uses impact the performance of functions by freshwater wetlands How wetlands are protected and managed using common tools such as buffers and compensatory mitigation How cumulative effects result from the current use of these tools.

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