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[Foreword]
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WETLANDS OF THE CENTRAL
AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST
AND COASTAL WATERSHEDS
A METHODOLOGY FOR THEIR CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION
Wayne R. Ferren Jr.
Department of Biological Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Peggy L. Fiedler
Department of Biology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132
and
Robert A. Leidy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
FINAL REPORT PREPARED FOR
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Region IX
San Francisco, CA
6 February 1995
(Revised August 1996)
Cover Photographs:
(1) Ventura Co., Ventura River Delta: Marine-Intertidal
Unconsolidated-Shore (Cobble-Gravel) Regularly-Flooded Delta-Shore Wetland; and
Marine-Intertidal Aquatic-Bed Algal (Mixed-Protista) and Rooted-Vascular-Plant
(Phyllospadix) Regularly-Flooded and Irregularly-Exposed Delta-Shore
Wetlands.
(2) Santa Barbara Co., Carpinteria Salt Marsh: Estuarine-Intertidal
Unconsolidated-Shore (Mud) Regularly-Flooded Tidal-Marsh-Channel Wetland; and
Emergent-Persistent (Salicornia) Irregularly-Flooded Middle-Salt-Marsh
Wetland.
(3) Monterey Co., Big Sur River: Riverine Lower-Perennial
Unconsolidated-Bottom (Cobble-Gravel) Permanently-Flooded River-Bed Wetland;
and Palustrine-Forested Needleleaved-Evergreen (Sequoia)
Temporarily-Flooded River-Bank and Broadleaved-Deciduous (Alnus)
Seasonally-Flooded River-Bank Wetlands.
(4) San Diego Co., Cuyamacha Lake: Lacustrine-Littoral
Unconsolidated-Shore (Mixed-Coarse and Mixed-Fines) Intermittantly-Flooded
Montane-Lake-Shore Wetland; and Emergent-Nonpersistent (Polygonum)
Intermittently-Flooded Montane-Lake Wetland.
(5) Santa Barbara Co., Foothills of the San Rafael Mountains:
Palustrine Emergent-Persistent (Eleocharis) Seasonally-Flooded
Vernal-Marsh Wetland; and Palustrine Unconsolidated-Bottom (Mud)
Seasonally-Flooded Vernal-Pond Wetland.
