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Tide over the road at Elliott's Island,Dorchester County, MD
Elliotts Island Road
Environmental Concern replanting living shoreline at Elliotts Island, MD
Elliotts Island Road
A Mature Acacia Koa Tree showing compound leaves and phyllodes
Acacia Koa Tree
A crator from the volcano Kileaua Caldera in Hawaii emits sulfer dioxide, gas, and steam
Kileaua Caldera
Lava flows from a volcano into the ocean while a boater passes
Lava flow at the coast in Hawaii
Conceptual diagram illustrating different monitoring activities implemented on Assateague Island to track changing habitats. Monitoring activities - which are habitat specific - include water quality, seagrass area, salt marsh nekton survey, surface elevation table, plover nests and fledgling success, upland elevation change, shoreline rate of change, and beach topography.
Monitoring Activities to Track Changing Habitats…
Illustration of biologist monitoring birds with binoculars
Monitoring: biologist bird-watcher
an osprey occupies it's nest overlooking a river
Osprey
waterspout rises over a local river
Waterspout
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of wetland and waterway habitats within Manassas National Battlefield Park.
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of…
Diagram showing summary results of habitat-based resource condition assessment of Manassas National Battlefield Park.
Diagram showing summary results of habitat-based…
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of forest habitats within Manassas National Battlefield Park.
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of…
A sensitive species, seabeach amaranth is aided at Assateague Island National Seashore by a management program that protects a portion of the annual population from being eaten and trampled by horses and deer so they can mature and produce seeds. Conservation efforts have helped the plant population increase to nearly 2,200 individuals in 2007.
Cages protect seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus…
A freshwater forest on Assateague Island, Maryland
Freshwater forest
A freshwater forest on Assateague Island, Maryland
Freshwater forest
A strong ocean storm has sent wave and sand overwash and debris over the dunes, clearing the vegetation almost to the salt marsh on the bay side of Assateague Island.
Ocean overwash area
A natural geomorphological function of this mid-Atlantic barrier island is westward migration. On the northern end of Assateague Island, these ocean sand dunes are moving and encroaching on the edge of woodlands as part of the rollover process.
Sand dunes encroach upon forest and shrub zone
The Gulf of Mexico watershed includes portions of five countries.
Gulf of Mexico watershed
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of croplands within Monocacy National Battlefield.
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of…
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of forests within Monocacy National Battlefield.
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of…
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of grasslands within Monocacy National Battlefield.
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of…
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of pasture lands within Monocacy National Battlefield.
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of…
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of wetlands and waterways within Monocacy National Battlefield.
Diagram showing desired and degraded condition of…
Diagram showing summary results of habitat-based resource condition assessment of Monocacy National Battlefield.
Diagram showing summary results of habitat-based…
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