Description: Tributary habitat is important to the life cycle of fishes (e.g., spawning), especially long, unimpeded lengths of tributaries. This data layers displays the estimated tributary reaches accessible from the Great Lakes shoreline to the first major dam or barrier allowing fish access.
The tributary segements included in this data layer were obtained from the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Plus version 2 and the Ontario Integrated Hydrology Dataset (OIHD) version 1.0 (2012). The dams and barriers identified and snapped to the tributaries were the National Anthropogenic Barrier Dataset (2013) in the U.S. and the Ontario Dam Inventory (2014). Using the methods developed by A. Cooper and explained in Cooper (2013) and Cooper et al. (2016) all lengths of tributary between the most downstream dam and the Great Lakes shoreline was identified.This dataset was altered to limit its extent to the St. Clair Detroit River System (SCDRS) Initiative Project Area (https://scdrs.org/), which includes the waters of SCDRS as defined by the SCDRS Initiative Project and their contributing watersheds. The SCDRS Initiative defines the waters of SCDRS the area approximately from the southern base of Lake Huron to the western basin of Lake Erie.
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Copyright Text: 1) National Anthropogenic Barrier Dataset (NABD) 2013, USGS: http://nepanode.anl.gov/layers/geonode:nabd_fish_barriers_2012; 2) Ontario Dam Inventory (2014), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources an Forestry: https://www.javacoeapp.lrc.gov.on.ca/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home?uuid=9a57609e-0047-4c3b-9100-c78a7d4cf614; 3) Cooper, A. R. 2013. Effects of dams on streams of the conterminous United States: characterizing patterns in habitat fragmentation nationally and fluvial fish response in the Midwest. Master’s thesis, Michigan State University; 4) Cooper, A. R., D. M. Infante, K. Wehrly, L. Wang, and T. Brendan. 2016. Understanding large-scale dam influences on fishes: Identifying indicators and quantifying effects. Ecological Indicators 61:646-657; 5) The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project has been funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and led by Dr. Catherine Riseng, PI, at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, with partners from Michigan Department of Natural Resources-Institute for Fisheries Research, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, International Joint Commission, Michigan State University, The Nature Conservancy, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota-Duluth, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey and many collaborating partners in both the USA and Canada. More information about this project can be found at http://glahf.org/; 6) This SCDRS work was done as part of a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grant awarded to the Office of the Great Lakes (OGL) that provided capacity funding to the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project to provide and support the platform and spatial infrastructure for planning and implementing the SCDRS Initiative softening shoreline and coastal wetland habitat restoration projects.
Description: The Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset Version 1 (GLHDv1.0), 2014, contains a consistent, binational, basin-wide watershed and interfluve layer and several related reference layers. The watershed and interfluve layer was specifically created to be incorporated into the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) Great Lakes aquatic habitat classification and nearshore fish habitat assessment to summarize landscape variables consistently across the basin. The dataset was also intended to be used for a wide range of applications in the region, including nutrient modeling, data summaries, and hydrology. The GLHDv1.0 (2014) was created as a part of the GLAHF project, a geospatial database and framework for the aquatic environment of the Great Lakes. This data package contains a consistent, basin-wide watershed and interfluve layer and supporting datasets, including modified vector layers from official hydrology base datasets, and intermediate reference layers created during delineation of the watersheds and interfluves. Several base hydrology sources were utilized, including the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2 (NHD+v2), the Ontario Integrated Hydrology Data Version 1.0 (OIHDv1.0), the 1:24,000 National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), and the 30m x 30m National Elevation Dataset (NED). An ArcHydro process flow was used that began with modified flow direction grids from base datasets and delineated a synthetic drainage network, associated reach-catchments, sub watersheds, and basin-wide, consistent tributary catchments boundaries. Coastal interfluves, the area between the delineated aggregated reach catchments and the shoreline (Gilliam et al. 1997), were also delineated basin-wide in a secondary processing step. Watersheds and interfluves were developed following the stream interfluves delineation methods outlined in Hollenhorst et al. (2007) using ArcHydro processing guidance from Merwade (2010). The final watersheds and interfluves layers and pour point layers, all synthetic reference layers, and modified official hydrology layers were packaged by entire Great Lakes Basin and by each Great Lake basin. Connecting channels are included with the downstream lake. A few pre-processing steps were performed to prepare the base flow direction grids for delienation: 1) the Great Lakes shoreline was enforced into the OIHDv1.0 flow direction grids; 2) EPA identified bays were used to enforce additional embayments into the shoreline to create a more detailed shoreline; 3) connecting channels were enforced at the shoreline for the NHD+v2 grids, and 4) the original hydrology datasets were modified to reflect these changes in the shoreline. Please see the Read Me document included in this data package for more details on methods and background.This layer contains the final, post processed mainland watershed boundaries along with the interfluves that were added in a secondary processing step outside of ArcHydro. A copy was made of the Watershed Original layer, interfluves were added, and some watershed and interfluve polygons were then edited based upon specified criteria. Attributes from the nearest downstream reach from the OIHDv1.0, NHD+v2 or NHD (and names from the National Hydro Network (NHN) and the Geographic Extent Layer (GEL) for Canadian watershds) were attributed to each watershed point, as long as the reach was within 200 meters. This data was then attributed to watershed polygon that corresponded to every point. Since attributes were added from the hydrology source used to delineate data for that watershed, each watershed or watershed point is linked to only the NHD+v2, OIHDv1, or NHD; therefore no watershed polygon or point will have attributes for all fields associated from the original hydrology. Please see the Attribute Description document included with the data package and the Fields section of this metadata record for more details.This dataset was altered to limit its extent to the St. Clair Detroit River System (SCDRS) Initiative Project Area (https://scdrs.org/), which includes the waters of SCDRS as defined by the SCDRS Initiative Project and their contributing watersheds. The SCDRS Initiative defines the waters of SCDRS the area approximately from the southern base of Lake Huron to the western basin of Lake Erie. This dataset was joined to the "Supporting Information" table from the GLHD publication that contained summaries for landcover percent by watershed, population density (#/km2) by watershed, and road density (km/k,m2) by watershed. For more details, see original publication: Forsyth, D, CM Riseng, KE Wehrly, LA Mason, J Gaiot, T Hollenhorst, CM Johnston, C Wyrzykowski, G Annis, C Castiglione, K Todd, M Robertson, DM Infante, L Wang, JE McKenna, G Whelan (2016) The Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset: consistent, binational watershedsfor the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12435. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.12435/abstract.
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Copyright Text: 1) The National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2 (1:100,000), 2012; 2) Ontario Integrated Hydrology Data Version 1, 2012; 3) The National Elevation Dataset; 4) The National Hydrography Dataset (1:24,000); 5) Hollenhorst, T.P., Brown, T.N., Johnson, L.B., Ciborowski, J.H. and Host, G.E. 2007. Methods for generating multi-scale watershed delineations for indicator development in Great Lakes coastal ecosystems. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33 (Special Issue 3:13-26, 6) Merwade, Venkatesh. 2010. Watershed and Stream Network Delineation using ArcHydro Tools. ,: and, 7) Gilliam, J.W., Osmond, D.L., and Evans, R.O. 1997. Selected agricultural best management practices to control nitrogen in the Neuse River basin. North Carolina Agricultural Research Service technical bulletin 311, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. 8) Forsyth, D, CM Riseng, KE Wehrly, LA Mason, J Gaiot, T Hollenhorst, CM Johnston, C Wyrzykowski, G Annis, C Castiglione, K Todd, M Robertson, DM Infante, L Wang, JE McKenna, G Whelan (2016) The Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset: consistent, binational watershedsfor the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12435. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.12435/abstract. 9)The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project has been funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and lead by the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, with partners from Michigan Department of Natural Resources-Institute for Fisheries Research, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, International Joint Commission, Michigan State University, The Nature Conservancy, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota-Duluth, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey and many collaborating partners in both the USA and Canada. More information about this project can be found at https://www.glahf.org/. 10)This SCDRS work was done as part of a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grant awarded to the Office of the Great Lakes (OGL) that provided capacity funding to the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project to provide and support the platform and spatial infrastructure for planning and implementing the SCDRS Initiative softening shoreline and coastal wetland habitat restoration projects.
Description: The Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset Version 1 (GLHDv1.0), 2014, contains a consistent, binational, basin-wide watershed and interfluve layer and several related reference layers. The watershed and interfluve layer was specifically created to be incorporated into the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) Great Lakes aquatic habitat classification and nearshore fish habitat assessment to summarize landscape variables consistently across the basin. The dataset was also intended to be used for a wide range of applications in the region, including nutrient modeling, data summaries, and hydrology. The GLHDv1.0 (2014) was created as a part of the GLAHF project, a geospatial database and framework for the aquatic environment of the Great Lakes. This data package contains a consistent, basin-wide watershed and interfluve layer and supporting datasets, including modified vector layers from official hydrology base datasets, and intermediate reference layers created during delineation of the watersheds and interfluves. Several base hydrology sources were utilized, including the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2 (NHD+v2), the Ontario Integrated Hydrology Data Version 1.0 (OIHDv1.0), the 1:24,000 National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), and the 30m x 30m National Elevation Dataset (NED). An ArcHydro process flow was used that began with modified flow direction grids from base datasets and delineated a synthetic drainage network, associated reach-catchments, sub watersheds, and basin-wide, consistent tributary catchments boundaries. Coastal interfluves, the area between the delineated aggregated reach catchments and the shoreline (Gilliam et al. 1997), were also delineated basin-wide in a secondary processing step. Watersheds and interfluves were developed following the stream interfluves delineation methods outlined in Hollenhorst et al. (2007) using ArcHydro processing guidance from Merwade (2010). The final watersheds and interfluves layers and pour point layers, all synthetic reference layers, and modified official hydrology layers were packaged by entire Great Lakes Basin and by each Great Lake basin. Connecting channels are included with the downstream lake. A few pre-processing steps were performed to prepare the base flow direction grids for delienation: 1) the Great Lakes shoreline was enforced into the OIHDv1.0 flow direction grids; 2) EPA identified bays were used to enforce additional embayments into the shoreline to create a more detailed shoreline; 3) connecting channels were enforced at the shoreline for the NHD+v2 grids, and 4) the original hydrology datasets were modified to reflect these changes in the shoreline. Please see the Read Me document included in this data package for more details on methods and background.This layer contains the final, post processed mainland watershed boundaries along with the interfluves that were added in a secondary processing step outside of ArcHydro. A copy was made of the Watershed Original layer, interfluves were added, and some watershed and interfluve polygons were then edited based upon specified criteria. Attributes from the nearest downstream reach from the OIHDv1.0, NHD+v2 or NHD (and names from the National Hydro Network (NHN) and the Geographic Extent Layer (GEL) for Canadian watershds) were attributed to each watershed point, as long as the reach was within 200 meters. This data was then attributed to watershed polygon that corresponded to every point. Since attributes were added from the hydrology source used to delineate data for that watershed, each watershed or watershed point is linked to only the NHD+v2, OIHDv1, or NHD; therefore no watershed polygon or point will have attributes for all fields associated from the original hydrology. Please see the Attribute Description document included with the data package and the Fields section of this metadata record for more details.This dataset was altered to limit its extent to the St. Clair Detroit River System (SCDRS) Initiative Project Area (https://scdrs.org/), which includes the waters of SCDRS as defined by the SCDRS Initiative Project and their contributing watersheds. The SCDRS Initiative defines the waters of SCDRS the area approximately from the southern base of Lake Huron to the western basin of Lake Erie. This dataset was joined to the "Supporting Information" table from the GLHD publication that contained summaries for landcover percent by watershed, population density (#/km2) by watershed, and road density (km/k,m2) by watershed. For more details, see original publication: Forsyth, D, CM Riseng, KE Wehrly, LA Mason, J Gaiot, T Hollenhorst, CM Johnston, C Wyrzykowski, G Annis, C Castiglione, K Todd, M Robertson, DM Infante, L Wang, JE McKenna, G Whelan (2016) The Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset: consistent, binational watershedsfor the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12435. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.12435/abstract.
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Copyright Text: 1) The National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2 (1:100,000), 2012; 2) Ontario Integrated Hydrology Data Version 1, 2012; 3) The National Elevation Dataset; 4) The National Hydrography Dataset (1:24,000); 5) Hollenhorst, T.P., Brown, T.N., Johnson, L.B., Ciborowski, J.H. and Host, G.E. 2007. Methods for generating multi-scale watershed delineations for indicator development in Great Lakes coastal ecosystems. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33 (Special Issue 3:13-26, 6) Merwade, Venkatesh. 2010. Watershed and Stream Network Delineation using ArcHydro Tools. ,: and, 7) Gilliam, J.W., Osmond, D.L., and Evans, R.O. 1997. Selected agricultural best management practices to control nitrogen in the Neuse River basin. North Carolina Agricultural Research Service technical bulletin 311, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. 8) Forsyth, D, CM Riseng, KE Wehrly, LA Mason, J Gaiot, T Hollenhorst, CM Johnston, C Wyrzykowski, G Annis, C Castiglione, K Todd, M Robertson, DM Infante, L Wang, JE McKenna, G Whelan (2016) The Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset: consistent, binational watershedsfor the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12435. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.12435/abstract. 9)The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project has been funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and lead by the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, with partners from Michigan Department of Natural Resources-Institute for Fisheries Research, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, International Joint Commission, Michigan State University, The Nature Conservancy, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota-Duluth, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey and many collaborating partners in both the USA and Canada. More information about this project can be found at https://www.glahf.org/. 10)This SCDRS work was done as part of a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grant awarded to the Office of the Great Lakes (OGL) that provided capacity funding to the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project to provide and support the platform and spatial infrastructure for planning and implementing the SCDRS Initiative softening shoreline and coastal wetland habitat restoration projects.
Description: To create a single, hydrogeomorphically classified inventory of all coastal wetlands for the Great Lakes Canadian shoreline. This inventory will be built on the most comprehensive coastal wetland data currently available and incorporate a standard classification process. It is result of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium (GLCWC) priority for a broadly accessible bi-national wetlands inventory and database of relevant coastal wetland-monitoring information and will provide the foundation for subsequent GLCWC projects. The Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Inventory was developed through the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Consortium (GLCWC) as a bi-national initiative to create a single, hydrogeomorphically classified inventory of all coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes Basin. This inventory is built upon the most comprehensive coastal wetland data currently available for the Great Lakes and connecting channels. For the U.S., National Wetlands Inventory (NWI); Wisconsin Wetland Inventory (WWI); Ohio Wetland Inventory (OWI); and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reports and corresponding topographic maps by Charles E. Herdendorf which describe coastal wetlands in the Great Lakes Basin (Herdendorf Wetland Inventory, HWI); are the major datasets included. Additional wetland projects were utilized for each lake if available. The Canadian dataset is built off 'The Ontario Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Atlas'. Published in March 2003, this document summarized all known data to-date for coastal wetlands and identifies numerous data gaps in the current information. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) digital Evaluated Wetlands polygon data provided the spatial extents for digital wetland boundaries where available. Data gaps have been filled in using air photograph interpretation following National Biological Service guidelines, and digitization techniques following GLCWC guidelines. The inventory contains the spatial extents, hydrogeomorphic classification, name, centroid position and area measurement for all known coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes basin. Hydrological modifiers imposing on each system are also identified. Hydrogeomorphology dictates wetland delineations per criteria developed by the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium (GLCWC) working group and described in the Great Lake Commission's (GLC) Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Classification First Revision (July 2003; original November 2001). This data is not intended for use finer than scale of sources used. The Inventory includes both a point, GLCWC_CWI and polygon coverage, GLCWC_CWI_pt.This dataset was altered to limit its extent to the St. Clair Detroit River System (SCDRS) Initiative Project Area (https://scdrs.org/), which includes the waters of SCDRS as defined by the SCDRS Initiative Project and their contributing watersheds. The SCDRS Initiative defines the waters of SCDRS the area approximately from the southern base of Lake Huron to the western basin of Lake Erie.
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Copyright Text: The U.S.G.S, CWS-OR, MNFI and OMNR would like to acknowledge the Great Lakes Commission Wetland Constortium (GLCWC), Ohio State SeaGrant, and Mary Moffett, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mid-Continent Ecology Division for their help in the acquisition of the primary wetland datasets used in this project. Also, thanks to Doug Wilcox and Martha Carlson, USGS Great Lakes Science Center, for additional wetland information. Funding was provided by the GLCWC.
The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project has been funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and led by Dr. Catherine Riseng at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, with partners from Michigan Department of Natural Resources-Institute for Fisheries Research, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, International Joint Commission, Michigan State University, The Nature Conservancy, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota-Duluth, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey and many collaborating partners in both the USA and Canada. More information about this project can be found at https://www.glahf.org/. This SCDRS work was done as part of a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grant awarded to the Office of the Great Lakes (OGL) that provided capacity funding to the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project to provide and support the platform and spatial infrastructure for planning and implementing the SCDRS Initiative softening shoreline and coastal wetland habitat restoration projects.
Description: The Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset Version 1 (GLHDv1.0), 2014, contains a consistent, binational, basin-wide watershed and interfluve layer and several related reference layers. The watershed and interfluve layer was specifically created to be incorporated into the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) Great Lakes aquatic habitat classification and nearshore fish habitat assessment to summarize landscape variables consistently across the basin. The dataset was also intended to be used for a wide range of applications in the region, including nutrient modeling, data summaries, and hydrology. The GLHDv1.0 (2014) was created as a part of the GLAHF project, a geospatial database and framework for the aquatic environment of the Great Lakes. This data package contains a consistent, basin-wide watershed and interfluve layer and supporting datasets, including modified vector layers from official hydrology base datasets, and intermediate reference layers created during delineation of the watersheds and interfluves. Several base hydrology sources were utilized, including the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2 (NHD+v2), the Ontario Integrated Hydrology Data Version 1.0 (OIHDv1.0), the 1:24,000 National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), and the 30m x 30m National Elevation Dataset (NED). An ArcHydro process flow was used that began with modified flow direction grids from base datasets and delineated a synthetic drainage network, associated reach-catchments, sub watersheds, and basin-wide, consistent tributary catchments boundaries. Coastal interfluves, the area between the delineated aggregated reach catchments and the shoreline (Gilliam et al. 1997), were also delineated basin-wide in a secondary processing step. Watersheds and interfluves were developed following the stream interfluves delineation methods outlined in Hollenhorst et al. (2007) using ArcHydro processing guidance from Merwade (2010). The final watersheds and interfluves layers and pour point layers, all synthetic reference layers, and modified official hydrology layers were packaged by entire Great Lakes Basin and by each Great Lake basin. Connecting channels are included with the downstream lake. A few pre-processing steps were performed to prepare the base flow direction grids for delienation: 1) the Great Lakes shoreline was enforced into the OIHDv1.0 flow direction grids; 2) EPA identified bays were used to enforce additional embayments into the shoreline to create a more detailed shoreline; 3) connecting channels were enforced at the shoreline for the NHD+v2 grids, and 4) the original hydrology datasets were modified to reflect these changes in the shoreline. Please see the Read Me document included in this data package for more details on methods and background.This layer contains the final, post processed mainland watershed boundaries along with the interfluves that were added in a secondary processing step outside of ArcHydro. A copy was made of the Watershed_Original layer, interfluves were added, and some watershed and interfluve polygons were then edited based upon specified criteria. Attributes from the nearest downstream reach from the OIHDv1.0, NHD+v2 or NHD (and names from the National Hydro Network (NHN) and the Geographic Extent Layer (GEL) for Canadian watershds) were attributed to each watershed point, as long as the reach was within 200 meters. This data was then attributed to watershed polygon that corresponded to every point. Since attributes were added from the hydrology source used to delineate data for that watershed, each watershed or watershed point is linked to only the NHD+v2, OIHDv1, or NHD; therefore no watershed polygon or point will have attributes for all fields associated from the original hydrology. Please see the Attribute Description document included with the data package and the Fields section of this metadata record for more details.This dataset was altered to limit its extent to the St. Clair Detroit River System (SCDRS) Initiative Project Area (https://scdrs.org/), which includes the waters of SCDRS as defined by the SCDRS Initiative Project and their contributing watersheds. The SCDRS Initiative defines the waters of SCDRS the area approximately from the southern base of Lake Huron to the western basin of Lake Erie.
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Copyright Text: 1) The National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2 (1:100,000), 2012; 2) Ontario Integrated Hydrology Data Version 1, 2012; 3) The National Elevation Dataset; 4) The National Hydrography Dataset (1:24,000); 5) Hollenhorst, T.P., Brown, T.N., Johnson, L.B., Ciborowski, J.H. and Host, G.E. 2007. Methods for generating multi-scale watershed delineations for indicator development in Great Lakes coastal ecosystems. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33 (Special Issue 3:13-26, 6) Merwade, Venkatesh. 2010. Watershed and Stream Network Delineation using ArcHydro Tools. ,: and, 7) Gilliam, J.W., Osmond, D.L., and Evans, R.O. 1997. Selected agricultural best management practices to control nitrogen in the Neuse River basin. North Carolina Agricultural Research Service technical bulletin 311, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. 8) The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project has been funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and lead by the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, with partners from Michigan Department of Natural Resources-Institute for Fisheries Research, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, International Joint Commission, Michigan State University, The Nature Conservancy, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota-Duluth, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey and many collaborating partners in both the USA and Canada. More information about this project can be found at https://www.glahf.org/. 9)This SCDRS work was done as part of a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grant awarded to the Office of the Great Lakes (OGL) that provided capacity funding to the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework (GLAHF) project to provide and support the platform and spatial infrastructure for planning and implementing the SCDRS Initiative softening shoreline and coastal wetland habitat restoration projects.