Animals & Insects
Raccoon, Golden Silk Spider Marsh Rabbit Dredge Spoil Oysters Horseshoes Anyone? Virginia Horseshoe Crab Management Update Dragonflies: Hawks of the Insect World A Crawfish by any Other Name Would Taste as Sweet Salt Marsh Snails Grass Shrimp Fiddler Crab The Stinging Sea Nettle (Jellyfish) Northern Water Snake Diamondback Terrapin Hellgrammites and Their Relatives The Common Clamworm (Nereis succinea) Green Tree Frog Alligators Abound! Alligator Farming in America
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Birds
Virginia Rail The Living Marsh: Yellow-crowned Night-heron Rails Black Duck Marsh Wren Little Blue Heron Swamp Sparrow Terns American Oystercatcher Sea Ducks: Scoters and Oldsquaw Death on the Chesapeake Bay: The 1994 Avian Cholera Outbreak Birds of the Eastern Shore Virginia’s Eastern Shore: Gone to the Birds Louisiana Waterthrush Prothonotary Warbler Black Skimmer Northern Harrier, or Marsh Hawk Great Blue Heron Double-Crested Cormorant Brown Pelican Barred Owl Northern Pintail Wood Duck Tundra Swan Spotted Sandpiper Killdeer: The Most Famous of Shorebirds Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) Dunlin (Calidris alpina) Banknesting Birds: Belted Kingfisher, Bank Swallow, and Northern Rough-winged Swallow; Or, Eroding Banks, They’re Not All Bad Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris)
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Book Reviews
Salt Tide: Cycles and Currents of Life Along the Coast For the Health of the Land: Previous Unpublished Essays and Other Writings Seashore Chronicles: Three Centuries of the Virginia Barrier Islands Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands Coastal Plants from Cape Cod to Cape Canaveral Wetlands Explained
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Climate Change
Sea Level Rise & Other Coastal Hazards - Living on the Edge Tidal Wetlands and Sea Level Rise: Where’s the Marsh?
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Dredging
Dredge Spoil Oysters Dredging Buffers Corp of Engineers Maneuvering to Adjust James River Dredging Restrictions
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Dunes & Beaches
Planting Wetlands and Dunes in Virginia, Part 1: How to Critically Review Project Designs Wetlands and Coastal Primary Sand Dune Violation Procedures Planting Wetlands and Dunes in Virginia, Part 2: On-Site Monitoring Wetlands and Coastal Primary Sand Dune Violation Procedures Management of Virginia’s Coastal Dunes and Beaches What is the Coastal Primary Sand Dune Protection Act? Study Offers Options For Protection of Secondary Dunes
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Education
Wetlands Education Program Survey VIMS Wetlands Education Program Notes "Playing” Wetland Board is Excellent Learning Tool for Virginia Beach Students What kind of educational courses and publications does the Wetlands Program offer? New Scholarship Housed at VIMS The VIMS Teaching Marsh: A Tidal Wetland Restoration and Education Project Tidal Wetlands Seminar Draws Crowd On the Road with CCRM
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Fishes
American Shad Killifishes Striped Bass Atlantic Menhaden Spotted Seatrout Cobia Sturgeon Atlantic Croaker White Perch Red Drum Bluefish American Eel Spanish Mackerel Alewife Bay Anchovy Weakfish Atlantic Silverside Spot Fish Lesions, Pfiesteria and the Chesapeake Bay Yellow Perch Sheepshead Minnow Striped Killifish Mummichog Striped Mullet Grass Shrimp Red Drum, (Sciaenops oscellatus) Snakehead Invades Potomac River
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GIS
Mapping our Coastal Inventory Mapping the Coastline The Importance of Natural Resource Inventories Using Photography for Mapping The Virginia Geographic Information Network (VGIN) Comprehensive Coastal Inventory Develops New Tidal Wetlands Inventories Sixth Annual Virginia GIS Conference Geographic Information System (GIS) Data Exchange- The State of the Problem Geographic Information System (GIS) Data Exchange- The State of the Problem, Part 2 Geographic Information Systems Support Tributary Strategy Planning in Virginia GIS as an Educational Tool GIS as a Tool for Planning and Evaluating Wetland Mitigation Compensation Sites Targeting for Effective Wetlands Preservation Classifying Satellite Imagery to Detect Land Cover Features Monitoring Wetlands Status and Trends: The Remote Sensing Solution An Update on the Virginia Geographic Information Network Using Remote Sensing and GIS To Perform Jurisdictional Wetlands Determinations Shoreline Situation Reports: Revised, Revisited, and Updated Applications for Wetlands Restoration in the Elizabeth River Watershed Online Fauna and Flora Data in Virginia Computing Isolated Wetlands in the Commonwealth A New Land Cover Data Set Now Available For Virginia’s Tributaries CCI Develops New Online GIS Resources Shoreline Situation Report Update A GIS approach for Targeting Potential Wetlands Mitigation or Restoration Sites Natural Resource Agencies Identify GIS Data Necessary to Address Agency Mandates GPS Technology Lends Support to the Marsh Project Marina Site Suitability Tool Available The First Electronic Shoreline Situation Report is Released for the City of Norfolk GIS Assists in Dune Management Project Workshop for Coastal Managers Planned for May 19-20, 2004 Online Tools Now Available for Coastal Managers Tools of the Tidal Shoreline Management Trade
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Inventory/Tracking
Tidal Marsh Inventories List Tidal Wetlands Inventories Wetlands Tracking Tidal Vegetated Wetlands and Shoreline Information by Political Subdivision A Note From the Virginia Marine Resource Commission: Tracking Wetlands Permit Applications Status of Wetland Inventories Back Bay Wetlands Inventory Historic Wetland Loss in the Elizabeth River An Overview of Permitted Tidal Wetland Impacts for 2000 A Summary of the EPA Rapid Bioassessment of Wetland Health Workshop An Overview of Permitted Tidal Wetland Impacts for 2002 Annual Summary of Permitted Tidal Wetland Impacts – 2003 Annual Summary of Permitted Tidal Wetland Impacts - 2004
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Law & Policy
In the News: State in U.S. Shoreline Program Jurisdictional Boundaries for Shorelines Charts Wetlands Delineation- The Dilemma Continues Analysis of Functional Assessment Accuracy for Constructed Wetlands Washington and Wetlands: Where Do Things Stand? General Assembly Passes, and Governor Signs Wetlands Mitigation Banking Legislation Wetlands and Regional Watershed Management Wetlands Mitigation Banks: Creating Big Wetlands to Compensate for many Small Losses Chesapeake Bay Program Wetlands Initiative - New Approach Allows the Identification of Locally Important Wetlands Chesapeake Executive Council Directive Wetlands Protection and Restoration Goals United States v. Wilson: Muddy Waters in the Search for Wetlands Protection Responding to the Chesapeake Executive Council Directive for Wetlands Protection and Restoration Goals Wetlands Initiative Gains Momentum Virginia Debates Nontidal Wetlands Regulation DEQ Implementing Nontidal Wetlands Protection Mandate Bay Managers Eye Recently Permitted SAV Losses Update on Virginia’s New and Improved Nontidal Wetlands Program Studies Document Weaknesses in 404 Compensatory Mitigation Tidal Wetland Mitigation Banking Coming to Virginia Waters VIMS Upgrades Shoreline Advisory Reports VMRC Adopts Wetland Mitigation/Compensation Policy Changes Recommendations for Implementing the Tidal Wetlands Mitigation-Compensation Policy Integrated Coastal & Shoreline Management Guidance The Big Picture: Managing Wetland from a Shoreline Perspective
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Miscellaneous
Recycling Second Edition of the Virginia Wetlands Management Handbook Now Available Medicinal Uses of Wetlands Wetlands: A Critical Resource in the Revolutionary War? Natural Lighting: Colonial Necessity is Today’s Craft Through The Years in Virginia’s Wetlands: The 1970’s Through the Years in Virginia’s Wetlands: Days in the Field Virginia Wetlands Report Reader Survey Result
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People & Meetings
VIMS Hosts Wetlands Functional Assessment Workshop Habitat Restoration is Focus of Newly Formed Bay Program Workgroup Virginia Association of Wetlands Professionals Wetlands Management Symposium A Success Earthwatchers Witness Change in the Chesapeake Wetlands and People Northern Neck Workshops Prove Profitable to Participants Wetlands Management Symposium: Wetlands Compensation Survey Results Wetlands Management Symposium Focuses on Technology and Conservation The Mid-Atlantic Wetlands Monitoring Work Group (MAWWG)
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Places to Visit Wetlands
Seashore State Park Ecotourism and the Chesapeake Bay Mid-Atlantic Wetland Compensatory Mitigation Workshop Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge Estuarine Research Reserves in Virginia The York River Reserve Sites The National Estuarine Research Reserve System Newport News City Park Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (Part 1) Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (Part 2) York River State Park Corrotoman River Nature Trail Monkey Bottom Wetland Walkway: A Walk on the Wild Side Westmoreland State Park The Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq Take a Wetland to Lunch…. Or Take your Lunch to a Wetland
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Plants
Spartina alterniflora (Saltmarsh, Smooth, or Saltwater Cordgrass) Reed Grass, Arrowhead Saltmarsh Cordgrass Arrow Arum Cranberries Peat: Use Through the Centuries Peat: Processing and Potential for Restoration Roof Thatching: Phragmites as a Building Material Wild Rice Recorded History was Revolutionized By a Wetland Plant Sago Palm Atlantic White Cedar Wetlands Yield Oriental Treats Phragmites australis (Reed Grass) Bane or Beneficence Sphagnum Moss: Natural Properties Promote Historic Uses The Tropical Potato Beach Plum: (Prunus maritima) Celebrating a Wetland Wildflower: Seashore Mallow
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Research
The Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level Rise, and Their Impact on Tidal Wetlands Waste Assimilation by Wetlands VIMS and DEQ Water Division Complete Joint Study of Nontidal Wetland Scientific Advisory Needs Increasing the Probability of Success in the Construction of Marshes in Coastal Virginia Impacts of Sea Level Rise Studied in Pamunkey River Marshes Private Piers and Tidal Marsh Cumulative Impacts A Level I Protocol for Assessing Wetland Condition by Hydrologic Unit within the Coastal Plain
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Resources Law & Policy
In the News: Erosion policy lacking, panel says 1987 Session Virginia Acts of Assembly Wetland Management: An Early History National Wetlands Policy and Goals Recommended. Another Perspective on Wetlands Management In the General Assembly. 1990 Virginia’s Nontidal Wetland Policy Debate:Reinventing the 1960’s Wheel Worldwide Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Wetland Losses: Are the Two Irrevocably Linked?
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Structures
Riprap for Shoreline Erosion Control What is Riprap? Wood Preservative Treatments for Marine Construction Bulkheading with Plastic Gabions New Brochure Encourages “Green” Solutions to Shoreline Erosion Marsh Grass Planting: Shoreline Stability Without Structure Gapped Breakwaters Why is riprap preferred over bulkheads? How do marsh grasses act to stabilize shorelines? What is a groin and how does it work Does my erosion control structure affect my neighbor’s shoreline What is marsh toe protection and how does it protect a wetland? What is riprap? Is it preferred over a bulkhead for shoreline erosion control? Preserving The Bay’s Living Shorelines: A Growing Grass-roots Effort
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Websites
Web Page Panorama New & Interesting Web Sites
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Wetlands Boards
Analysis of Virginia’s Local Wetlands Boards Special Feature: Middlesex County Special Feature: Westmoreland County Marina Sitings From the Scientific Advisor’s Viewpoint Checklist For Wetlands Board Meetings and Public Hearings Wetland Board Opening Statement An Example Wetlands Permit Wetlands Board Questions and Answers Middlesex County/Profiles of Wetlands Board Members Appeals to VMRC City of Norfolk/Profiles of Wetlands Board Members Wetland Compensation/Restoration Checklist Portsmouth/Profiles of Wetlands Board Members Contractors and the Wetlands Board Mean High Water Mark and How to Locate it A Local Board’s Experience with Civil Charges and Penalties Compensatory Mitigation Issues: Is the planting of nonvegetated wetlands with wetland plants an acceptable form of mitigation? What are benchmarks and why are they important in my permit application drawings? VIMS Shoreline Reports to Be Updated and Go Online Economics vs. Wetland Protection: How Do Wetland Boards Do It VIMS Upgrades Shoreline Advisory Reports Recommendations for Implementing the Tidal Wetlands Mitigation-Compensation Policy
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Wetlands Ecology
Rejuvenation of the Virginia Oyster Industry Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay What are nonvegetated wetlands and why are they valuable? Grazing and Haying Activities in Wetlands Should I fertilize my tidal marsh? Literally, what is littoral sand movement? Are nonvegetated, muddy shorelines valuable to the health of the Chesapeake Bay? An Introduction to Stressed Habitats
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