Book/Printed Material The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002
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Image 1 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 QH 125 pon I W2 C66 2007 poe irae a Ato ibid 02 September 2007 wwwepagovord we stern c OAS SAMPLE D WA0200 2 C TION Loch 18 a The Condition of…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 2 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 3 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 EPA620R07002 September 2007 The Condition of Tidal Wetlands of Washington Oregon and California 2002 Authors Walter G Nelson Henry Lee II Janet O Lamberson Faith A Cole Christine L Weilhoefer and Patrick…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 4 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Disclaimer The information in this document has been funded wholly or in part by the US Environmental Protection Agency under Cooperative Agreements with the State of Washington Department of Ecology CR 827869…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 5 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Preface This document is one of a series of summaries for the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA National Coastal Assessment West Coast regional component NCA West The NCA is the coastal component…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 6 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Acknowledgments The NCAWest involves the cooperation of a significant number of federal state and local agencies The project has been principally funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 7 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Table of Contents PDISCIANIMION fic desrces cscs cae avdeee cocth cave Selves tauch aah sduan QOS SHEEN TESCO Pete li EP OTACC odie tec ceaccelag sad vesvscceisnta feigetgada luvs dectes ta eTec…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 8 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 241 Quality Assurance Quality Control of Chemical Analyses eeeeeeeees 9 MPV tel SHLIEOCOIICIICS mre errr erie tot cdc tr ut ees crvtcels cee cacec ites sche Means anemia 10 PERO LAGS IMO…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 9 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 40 Literature Cited 90 Apendices vii- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 10 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 List of Figures Figure 311 Views of field sampling activities during the 2002 NCA Intertidal Assessment in Oregon A Washington BD and California C ec eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 116 Figure 312 Percentage area of…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 11 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Figure 322 Percent sediment total organic carbon TOC for the 2002 West Coast Intertidal ASSESSMONL c0icécsccsvcsveneonssanscnsrrecddsascrusdicchelecacstctleteeee Le eee enon rete aaa ANG Figure 323 Average percent sediment total nitrogen for intertidal samples…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 12 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Figure 339 Relative percent cover of Zostera marina in the vegetation quadrats at SUE nVe TROLeSCMe MICE MI ESC ets te ae tecare sc taciscracccssceecicarecevccueterecbere coeereencoeaeterouee 50 Figure 3310 Relative percent cover…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 13 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 List of Tables Table 211 Summary of the sampling design by state and multidensity category for the 2002 West Coast Intertidal Assessments i ic cissevssssceucsteeecervetves tieeeeseeeteenneeees 4 Table 221 Compounds analyzed in…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 14 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 List of Appendix Tables Appendix Table 11 Summary of quality assurance results for sediment metals 63 Appendix Table 12 Summary of quality assurance results for sediment PAHS 63 Appendix Table 13 Summary…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 15 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 BEST CDF CRM CVAA CWA EMAP EPA ERL GAO GCECD GCMS GIS ICPAES ICPMS LCM MDL NCA NCAWest NIS NOAA ORD PCB QAQC RPD SCCWRP SRM TOC WED List of Acronyms Biomonitoring…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 16 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Executive Summary An assessment of the condition of the intertidal soft sediment habitat of the states of Washington Oregon and California was successfully conducted during the summer of 2002 The assessment survey…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 17 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Southern California pilot studies a two stage randomization procedure was followed As the first stage wetland systems were randomly selected from a list of systems and then a point sampling location was…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 18 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 found No nonindigenous macrophyte species were observed at California sites except one high marsh site in San Francisco Bay Shoreline land use adjacent to sample sites showed much higher percentages of urban…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 19 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 10 Introduction 11 Program Background Safeguarding the natural environment is fundamental to the mission of the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA The legislative mandate to undertake this part of the Agencys mission…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 20 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 On the West Coast the large tidal amplitude experienced over much of the region means that a large proportion of total estuarine area is intertidal For example intertidal habitat constitutes 52 of…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 21 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 irregularly flooded was interpreted as above Mean Higher Water Both categories were excluded from the frame The study utilized a stratified random sampling design Within Washington sampling effort was distributed such that…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 22 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Table 211 Summary of the sampling design by state and multidensity category for the 2002 West Coast Intertidal Assessment Number of Wosery Number of Actual Sheer Alternate Label Sampled coe i Low…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 23 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Because EMAPs probabilistic sampling design is unbiased potentially some of the generated sites can fall in locations that are not amenable to sampling eg outside the sampling frame danger or risk to…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 24 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 different layers of cover For rooted species the blade length of the longest blades was measured The total biomass of each species of rooted plants and each type of algae in the…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 25 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 was discovered that the internal area of the posthole corer was 009 m but not before twelve samples were taken with other methods that had an actual area of 01 m Additionally…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 26 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Table 221 Compounds analyzed in all three states in sediments Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons PAHs Low Molecular Weight PAHs 1methylnaphthalene 1methylphenanthrene 2methylnaphthalene 26dimethylnaphthalene 235trimethylnaphthalene Acenaphthene Acenaphthylene Anthracene Biphenyl Fluorene Naphthalene High Molecular Weight PAHs…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 27 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 23 Shoreline Land Use Research has indicated that there tend to be relationships between land use or land cover types and indicators of estuarine condition Both Comeleo et al 1996 and Rodriguez…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 28 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 A measure of whether the analytical procedure is sufficient to detect the analytes at environmental levels of concern is the Method Detection Limits MDLs Approved laboratories were expected to perform in general…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 29 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 relatively small indicating that the total PAH data from both Washington and California can be used quantitatively The Oregon results are more problematic as they had a greater difference between the measured…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 30 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 25 Data Analyses The use of a probability based sampling design allows the development of estimates of the extent of area with 95 confidence intervals of the intertidal resource that has any…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 31 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 30 Results and Discussion 31 Sampling Locations Samples were obtained from 217 stations located in the states of Washington Oregon and California Figs 311 3113 Abbreviated station numbers are provided on Figs…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 32 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 The substrate type varied widely and included salt marsh oysters and sand and mud flats Fig 312 Percentage of area within the West Coast intertidal region sampled was statistically estimated for 9…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 33 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 ll Vancouver Island 2 a Canada Se i Facg ISON Columbia River Necanicum River 4 4600 N Nehalem River Tillamook Bay Netarts Bay Nestucca Bay A Siletz Bay 5 a eo Y…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 34 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Chete Smith Fone CA 4200N Arcata Bay Humboldt Bay 4000N Drakes Bay yy ee a 1 San Francisco Bay Ly Na ra Bodega Bay in i shiditen Aae ae S8OOON Santa Cruz…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 35 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 IDUOOUN A Bellingham Bay ASOLO N Puget Sound 954 dtillaguamis h River A Aas ashington Lake OOOCK 022 A Elliot ISUUN IPIVOUN Figure 315 Distribution of sampling stations with station numbers in…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 36 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 47O0UON SOAS OON 4OP30UN 12400W 123450W Figure 316 Distribution of sampling stations with station numbers for the outer coastal estuaries of Washington for the 2002 West Coast Intertidal Assessment 18- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 37 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 Necanicum River I6UV UN Nehalem River Tillamook Bay IS IRVOUON Nestucca Bay ISU N a Nog PS i 4430 N 124300W 12400W 123300W Figure 317 Distribution of sampling stations with station numbers…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 38 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 AAU ON Siuslaw River Umpqua River 31 50674 43 30UN me _ home i Need eet Coquille River 4JFUWEN Sixes River 124300W 12400W Figure 318 Distribution of sampling stations with station numbers…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 39 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 A300 N I 2 B By 3 a oe IZUSUON 124150W Figure 319 Distribution of sampling stations with station numbers for Coos Bay Oregon for the 2002 West Coast Intertidal Assessment aT- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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Image 40 of The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002 42 0N Smith River CA CA 030 Arcata Bay Humboldt Bay 997923 Eel River 901022 4090 0N Pacific Ocean Bodega Bay 026 Tomales Bay 006 935 A we 6204 Drakes Bayy6993029 238…- Contributor: Nelson, Walter G.
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About this Item
Title
- The condition of tidal wetlands of Washington, Oregon, and California, 2002
Names
- Nelson, Walter G.
Created / Published
- Newport, Or. : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division, [2007]
Headings
- - Wetland ecology--Washington (State)
- - Wetland ecology--Oregon
- - Wetland ecology--California
Notes
- - "September 2007."
- - "EPA/620/R-07/002."
- - Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62).
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- xvi, 84 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- QH105.W2 C66 2007
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2009416138
Online Format
- online text
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