Pacific Northwest Coast ecoregion - TNC and NOAA CSC project (11 MB)

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The Global Marine Initiative of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s Coastal Services Center (NOAA CSC) entered into a collaborative partnership in June of 2004 to build regional planning innovations and refine database design techniques into the marine ecoregional planning process in the Pacific Northwest. The goal of the partnership was to improve methods for identifying priority sites for marine conservation and management by unambiguously accounting for the vital connections between land, rivers, and sea. The project includes databases on the distributions of key species, habitats and ecosystems in near and offshore environments across the outer coasts of Oregon and Washingon. In addition, we have integrated information on the distributions of threats to coastal natural resources from terrestrial and freshwater environments.