The Regional Interagency Review Panels examined the Indicator 

 assignments suggested by each reviewer and any additional 

 supporting documentation which reviewers provided. Each of the 

 Regional Review Panel members independently synthesized the review 

 received and developed a regional Indicator assignment for each 

 species based upon all the regional review and information gathered 

 about the species. The tentative Indicator assignment developed 

 from the Annotated National Wetland Plant Species Data Base often 

 was regarded as the equivalent of a regional reviewer's assignment 

 and was given the same status or weight in Review Panel 

 deliberations. The Regional Review Panel collectively considered 

 Indicator assignments for each species made by each agency panel 

 member and, with each agency having one vote, attempted to achieve 

 unanimous agreement on a Regional Indicator assignment. The plus 

 (+) and minus (-) designations, specifying respectively the higher 

 or lower part of the frequency range for a particular Indicator, 

 were used by some Review Panels as a means of achieving interagency 

 agreement. The number of reviewers for each species varied 

 considerably, and each reviewer was generally given the same weight 

 by a Review Panel . The number of reviewers commenting on 

 individual species varied, depending on the distribution of the 

 species across the region. Particular species ranged from 20 

 review comments to only a single review, and in some cases received 

 no review. Review reflecting a wide range of suggested Indicators 

 was received for some species. This broad range of suggested 

 Indicators for these species was difficult to synthesize and blend 

 into a single Indicator status. These species were given an NA (no 

 agreement) assignment if the Review Panel could not reach a 

 unanimous decision. Unreviewed species were assigned an NI (no 

 indicator) assignment if the Review Panel had little or no 

 information on which to base an Indicator status . 



The National Review Panel met in July 1985 to review progress, to 

 examine the Indicator assignments for consistency across regions, 

 and to develop a procedure for the assignment of an Indicator to 

 as many unassigned species as possible. National, regional, and 

 State lists of plant species that Occur in Wetlands were produced 

 in the spring of 1986, and were distributed widely. 



The Regional Review Panels met during the summer and fall of 1986 

 to apply an Indicator assignment to as many remaining unassigned 

 species as possible. The Review Panels principally relied on 

 additional review received from former and new reviewers, the 

 habitat information recorded in the Annotated National Wetland 

 Plant Species Data Base, or examination of the habitat given in 

 selected regional manuals if the Species Data Base information was 

 not available, to assign a regional Indicator status. An asterisk 

 (*) was assigned by the Regional Review Panels to Indicators 

 derived from limited ecological information. The asterisk 

 reflected a tentative assignment made with less confidence and data 

 than the other Indicator assignments. Usually no review was 

 received from regional ecologists for these asterisked species. 

 A question mark (?) following a National Indicator denoted a 



