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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Wetland and aquatic habitats are essential components of inland and barrier island environments along the Texas coast. These layers contain coastal wetland habitat from 1956, 1979, and 2004 interpreted by the Bureau of Economic Geology from historical and recent aerial photographs. It also includes wetland habitats interpreted for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services National Wetland Inventory program. Wetlands are classified by system (marine, estuarine, riverine, palustrine, lacustrine), subsystem (reflective of hydrologic conditions), and class (descriptive of vegetation and substrate). Maps for 1979 and the 2000’s were additionally classified by subclass (subdivisions of vegetated classes only), water regime, and special modifiers. </SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV> |