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  • New PMEP Study Documents Dramatic Loss of West Coast Estuaries

    New PMEP Study Documents Dramatic Loss of West Coast Estuaries

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    PMEP partners  are lead authors on a newly published collaborative study that maps the historical extent of West Coast estuaries and estimates losses of vegetated tidal wetlands  since European settlement.  It is the first time researchers have applied consistent methods across all 450 estuaries of the contiguous U.S. West Coast. Their results show that more…