Volunteer Wetlands Monitoring

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This booklet provides an introduction to why and how people monitor wetlands and includes a multi-page resource guide to handbooks and manuals that offer detailed information on wetland monitoring for the layperson. While it is not a methods manual, the guide also offers advice on approaching wetland monitoring, most of which is a synthesis of comments received from organizers of a wetland monitoring programs across the United States.

Volunteer Wetland Monitoring: An Introduction and Resource Guide (EPA 843-B-00-001) (PDF) (51 pp, 1.0MB)   |  Non-Graphical Version (PDF) (32 pp, 256K) (This version does not contain graphical layout).