Publication Summary

This document contains all of the comments that the state Department of Ecology received in the fall of 2005 during the public review of the draft Protecting Aquatic Resources Using Landscape Characterization: A Guide for Puget Sound Planners

This document contains all of the comments that the state Department of Ecology received in the fall of 2005 during the public review of the draft Protecting Aquatic Resources Using Landscape Characterization: A Guide for Puget Sound Planners (Ecology Publication #05-06-013). Changes to the draft to address the comments resulted in the final document Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems: A Guide for Puget Sound Planners to Understand Watershed Processes (Ecology Publication #05-06-027). Twenty individuals provided comments, and a list of those individuals is provided in Table 1.

The authors of the draft asked reviewers to provide general comments on readability as well as technical comments regarding the accuracy of the information presented.

The comments received are organized into topic areas listed in the table of contents. Since the final document represents a significant reorganization of the draft, we felt the topic areas would enable the reader to follow the changes between documents. For each comment submitted, the authors prepared a response, describing how they addressed the comment; whether they agreed and made a change, or if they disagreed the reason why, or acknowledging the comment if no change was made (i.e., comment noted)