An Ecological Assessment of the Louisiana Tensas River Basin: Acknowledgements 
Acknowledgements 
The authors wish to express their thanks to the 
authors of the U.S. EPA Report, "An Ecological 
Assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic Re¬ 
gion: A Landscape Atlas," for the extensive use of 
Chapters 1 and 2 from that document. The citation 
for the above report is as follows: 
Jones, K.B., K.H. Riitters, J.D. Wickham, R.D 
Tankersley, Jr., R.V. O'Neill, D.J. 
Chaloud, E.R. Smith, and A.C. Neale, 
1997. An Ecological Assessment of 
the United States Mid-Atlantic Region: 
A Landscape Atlas U.S. EPA J ORD, 
EPA/600/R-97/130 
The authors also would like to acknowledge the 
following people and their contributions to this docu¬ 
ment: Dr. Eugene Meier, Larinda Tervent, James E. 
Seals, and the U.S. EPA Gulf of Mexico Program, 
Kenneth Teague, U.S. EPA Region 6, Mike Adcock, 
Tensas River Basin Coordinator, Mark Swan, The 
Louisiana Nature Conservancy, Robert F. Carsel, 
U.S. EPA, NERL, Athens, GA, Jan R. Boydsten, 
Louisiana Dept, of Environmental Quality, Donna 
Sutton, Lockheed/Martin Corp., Dan Sahagun, ATA 
Corp., Deborah J. Chaloud, Don Ebert, Katie 
Feldman and Tyrone Roach, U.S. EPA, NERL, Las 
Vegas, NV. A special thanks goes to Pat Deliman 
for use of several of his photographs of the Tensas 
River Basin. 
Notice 
The purpose of this atlas is to show examples of how 
the principles of landscape ecology can be applied in 
a watershed-scale ecological assessment. The 
examples do not constitute a definitive assessment 
of ecological conditions in the Tensas River Basin. 
The EPA, through its Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), partially funded the research 
described here under U.S. EPA contract #68-C5- 
0065 to Lockheed/Martin Corporation. It has been 
peer reviewed by the EPA and approval for publica¬ 
tion. Mentions of trade names does not constitute 
endorsement or recommendation for use. 
