Many estuaries show no significant ecological improvement despite many years of extensive restoration and conservation efforts. Increasing human activities in the coastal zone create multiple ...

Unfortunately, the state’s early posture on protecting coastal resources has shifted over the past 20 plus years ...

Seagrasses, or submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), have disappeared from coastal and tidal areas around the country ... But as communities develop and pave over grasses and other pervious surfaces, ...