Caring for Coastal Wetlands: The Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act

Abstract

Caring for Coastal Wetlands is a short, colorful companion to a technical report submitted to Congress by the Louisiana Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force. The 1997 Evaluation Report to the U.S. Congress on the Effectiveness of Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Restoration Projects. It provides a brief history of wetland legislation and overviews of wetland values and problems associated with wetland loss. Most of the booklet, however, describes the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act, passed by Congress in 1990: how funds are provided for wetland restoration to Louisiana and other states, how restoration projects are designed and what their progress was through 1997, and how the Act provides for future monitoring of wetland restoration projects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA351063

Entities

People

  • B. A. Vairin

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Interior

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Congress
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineers
  • Environmental Protection
  • Fish
  • Floods
  • Habitats
  • Law
  • Louisiana
  • Monitoring
  • Natural Resources
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Storm Surges
  • Task Forces
  • United States
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.