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Identify shoreline study areaAfter determining the land and water contained within SMA jurisdiction, this next step defines upland and adjacent areas where ecosystem-wide processes affect shoreline ecological functions. This is necessary to determine which reports and data are relevant. View Rule citation. It is helpful to then identify and map areas that influence SMA shorelines, such as drainage basins and littoral drift areas. Existing reports and studies have already mapped basin and drift cell boundaries for Washington. Many reports and studies present maps indicating land use activities upland and adjacent to shorelines that may be influencing shoreline function. These maps may be scanned and annotated to indicate which ecosystem wide processes as detailed in the report summaries are influencing portions of the shoreline. Gather these annotated maps together into a working map portfolio organized by basins and/or drift cells and indicate the SMA shorelines contained within these them. These will be referred to in the final stages of the analysis when assessing shoreline ecological functions at the reach. If the local government chooses, more detailed sub-basin and sub-cell boundaries from local studies may be used or boundaries may be determined using primary data such as topography, hydrology and shoreline edge. Click on any buttons below to view example
study area maps for the different types of shoreline.
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