Saving Bays And Estuaries

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ISBN 13 : 9781332307319
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Saving Bays and Estuaries written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Saving Bays and Estuaries: A Primer for Establishing and Managing Estuary Projects A Primer for Establishing and Managing Estuary Projects is designed to help guide estuary and other coastal area programs as they grapple with the management of estuarine and coastal resources. As more and more of our nations people move toward our coastlines, these areas experience increasing stress. Burdened with the demands of various interests agriculture, recreation, conservation, fishing, manufacturing, mining state and local decision makers have sought new ways to better manage coastal area resources. The National Estuary Program is attempting, through this document and other management tools, to support these state and local efforts. This Primer is based on water management achievements in the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and Puget Sound, as well as on the cumulative experiences of water quality management efforts over two decades. Estuary program managers are encouraged to examine these earlier endeavors and review the water management plans developed by them. While this Primer can be used as a blueprint for estuary program management, it is not the only acceptable approach to estuarine management. The bottom line is that we restore our estuaries as we comply with the requirements of the laws governing them. The Primer is a guidance tool which has evolved over several years. It represents the thoughts and ideas of many federal and state water quality program managers and others engaged in environmental management. But it is not the last word. It is our good fortune that we continue to learn. The process described in this book is still evolving. Moreover, the steps in this process do not always follow one after another. Steps are often retraced, inverted, or overlapped. There are two certainties, however. One is that the affected governments, institutions, and people need to be integral to each step in the estuary management process and lend support. The other is that funding must be secured for each management action. Funding options for both shortand long-term activities will need to be considered; firm commitments will have to be made if our estuaries are to be restored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.