Index • 207 



local programs, 83 



Louisiana, 55, 89, 97, 99, 113, 119, 122, 131, 159 



Western Judicial District, 176 

 Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain, 89, 95, 97, 148 

 Lower Mississippi River Valley, 5, 7, 56, 87, 99, 108, 



113, 120 

 Loxahatchee Refuge, Fla., 42 



Maine, 25 



major types of wetlands, 29 



bogs, 30 



bottom lands and other riparian habitats, 30 



coastal salt marshes, 31 



inland freshwater marshes, 29 



inland saline marshes, 30 



mangrove swamps, 31 



shrub swamp, 30 



tidal freshwater marshes, 32 



tundra, 30 



wooded swamps, 30 

 Maryland, 55, 99, 119, 146 

 Massachusetts, 26, 39, 45, 81, 84, 89, 146 

 Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Fla., 41 

 Michigan, 13, 25, 119 

 Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, 69 

 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps, 9, 12, 



72 

 Minnesota, 25, 47, 73, 77, 79, 80, 95, 98, 112, 119, 180 



Protected Waters Program, 81 



Water Bank Program, 82 

 Mississippi, 119, 192 

 Mississippi Delta, 26 

 Mississippi River, 26, 52, 80, 89, 130 

 Muskie, Senator Edmund, 170 



National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), 76, 84 



National Forest Service, 72 



National Forest System, 72 



National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 10, 11, 18, 



70, 71, 74, 76, 77, 83, 141, 142, 144, 145, 158, 167, 



178 

 National Park Service, 73 



National Pollution Discharge Elimination System, 75 

 National Science Foundation (NSF), 76, 77 

 National Wedand Trends Study (NWTS), 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 



94, 98, 108, 170, 171 

 National Wildlife Refuge System, 16, 41, 52, 72, 73 

 Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Callaway, 10, 



70 

 Nature Conservancy, 13, 43, 84, 181 

 Nebraska, 27, 79, 80, 88, 97, 99, 109, 112, 120, 169, 



180, 188 

 Neponset River Basin, Mass., 45 

 New Jersey, 99, 146, 173, 189, 190, 191 

 New York, 25, 42, 174 

 North Carolina, 5, 40, 43, 55, 99, 109, 119, 152, 168, 



173, 180 

 North Carolina Office of Coastal Management, 192 

 North Dakota, 25, 73, 77, 112, 180 



Office of Coastal Zone Management (OCZM), 134 

 Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 146, 155, 



156, 157, 177 

 Okefenokee Swamp, Ga., 41, 42 

 Oregon, 55 

 origins of wedands, 25-28 



activities of man, 27 , 



beaver dams, 26 



distribution of wedands in the United States, 26 



erosion and sedimentation, 25 



freezing and thawing, 26 



glaciation, 25 



miscellaneous processes, 27 



Passaic River, N.J., 45 



Pennsylvania, 41, 42 



Platte River Valley, Nebr., 169 



policy considerations and options, 13-21 



issues and options, 14-21 

 private initiatives, 84 

 programs and policies affecting wedand use, 8-13 



administration policies, 13 



Federal programs discouraging wetland conversion, 10 



Federal programs encouraging wetland conversions, 12 



Federal regulation — 404 program, 10-12 



major Federal programs, 9 



private initiatives, 13 



State wedand programs, 13 



Rainwater Basin, Nebr., 79, 80, 109, 112, 120, 169 



Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., 28 



Richard King Mellon Foundation, 13, 84 



Reilly, William, 39 



Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley, Calif., 122 



San Diego County, Calif., 172 



San Francisco Bay, 6, 28, 117, 130 



Snohomish Estuary Wedand Study, Seatde district, 127 



South Carolina, 99, 168, 178, 188 



South Carolina Heritage Trust Program, 43 



South Dakota, 73, 77 



State programs, 81-83 



acquisition, 82 



incentives to landowners, 82 



influence on Federal activities, 82 



wetland regulation, 81 



tax incentives, 12, 15 



Tennessee, 28 



Texas, 55, 99, 119, 130 



Thief Run Wildlife Management Area, 45 



Thompson, Edward, Jr., 170 



Tinicum Marsh, Pa., 41, 42 



U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 

 15, 16, 17, 18, 37, 69, 70, 76, 82, 110, 126, 128, 129, 

 141, 143, 156, 174, 175-182 



Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), 71, 157, 

 167 



