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Wetlands Layer - National Spatial Data Infrastructure: A Phased Approach to Completion and Modernization. (December 2007)(PDF .7MB) NSDI Report

Viewing Wetlands with Google™ Earth: A Keyhole Markup Language file has been created to view Wetlands Data with Google Earth. This viewing method provides access to Google imagery in combination with the wetlands digital data.  For more information, please visit:
http://www.fws.gov/nwi/WetlandsData/GoogleEarth.htm

Google Earth sample image


Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States:
1998 to 2004
(PDF, 12MB) (Questions and Answers)


Status and Trends cover page
On April 22, 2008 (Earth Day) the White House Council of Environmental Quality put out a report detailing the accomplishments of the President's wetlands initiative - the conservation of 3.6 million acres of wetlands over the past four years. The full reporting of this accomplishment can be found at the White House Council of Environmental Quality website:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/wetlands/2008/index.html
(Follow this link for Report Notes)
Conserving Americas Wetlands Report icon

With wetlands digital data available for only 53% of the Nation, NWI is beginning to add raster scan images for non-digital maps for some portions of the Nation (OH, AZ, AR). Stay tuned for more.
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Draft Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Wetlands Mapping Standard (PDF)

FGDC
Sea Level Rise Modeling - SLAMM (Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model): Simulates the dominant processes involved in wetland conversions and shoreline modifications during long-tern sea level rise using NWI data. Sea Level Rise icon

Global Climate Change: Conserving the Nature of America in a Changing Climate
 
Geographically Isolated Wetlands (PDF, 83.7MB) (PDF without images, 1.5MB) Isolated Wetlands Report icon