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Baldwin County Wetland Conservation Plan Final Summary Document acres), Perdido (20,000 acres) and Perdido Bay (3,000 acres). The overwhelming majority of wetlands are highly functioning and suitable for conservation. Appendix 9.4 lists the results of the RFWAM. 3.2.3.7 Future Direction and Recommendations Although complete and useful, there is great potential for future updates of the RFWAM as more digital data becomes available. Such data could be more detailed land use coverages or digital soils data. This information would increase the accuracy of remotely assessing wetland functions. Further, the hydric soils in the digital wetland coverage could be used in combination with the Baldwin County Digital Wetland Layer to increase the accuracy of the coverage. Also, field studies could be developed to identify relationships between the digital hydric soils data to the BCDWL, as the wetland layer was developed remotely and the soils data is field-based. BCWCP staff plans to distribute the BCDWL and the model results to all federal, state and local wetland stakeholders. The results could aid the USACE in determining suitable sites for successful wetland mitigation. Locally, the data will be utilized daily by the Baldwin County Planning and Zoning Department and will be provided to the Baldwin County Highway Department for future transportation corridor development. 27
Baldwin County Wetland Conservation Plan Final Summary Document 3.3 Develop wetlands education/outreach program for area stakeholders The education/outreach component of the BCWCP was achieved through public meetings designed to present information and obtain stakeholder input. Activities included presentations to governmental and civic organizations and presentations to professional organizations. During the course of this project, BCWCP staff were very successful in conveying information to the public regarding Baldwin County wetland project activities. 3.3.1 Public Meetings BCWCP staff conducted two sets of public meetings during the course of the project period. These meetings were held in Bay Minette, Foley and Fairhope, three locations distributed around Baldwin County. These meetings were well-attended. The first meetings were held in March 2001 to inform the public of the project goals and activities and to solicit input from the public on wetlandrelated issues. The second set of meetings was held in July 2003 to present the results of the Remote Functional Wetland Assessment Model. BCWCP staff also utilized this platform to emphasize to the public the importance of wetland functions in Baldwin County. Throughout the grant period, staff updated and informed the Baldwin County Commission of project-related activities at regularly scheduled meetings. In July 2003, a presentation to the Commission led to a local newspaper article announcing the results of the remote functional assessment model (Appendix 9.4). This article informed the public of the availability of wetland maps, which led to many map requests. These meetings were attended by the local media and were televised throughout Baldwin County on the public access cable channel. Additionally, BCWCP staff solicited input from the Baldwin County Planning Commission and the Baldwin County Environmental Advisory Board throughout the project period. 3.3.2 Presentation to Government and Civic Organizations BCWCP staff made presentations to numerous civic organizations throughout the grant period. A partial listing of these speaking engagements includes presentations at the Sonora Homemakers Club, Faulkner State Community College, Bay Minette Rotary Club, Gulf Shores Rotary Club, Point Clear Rotary Club, Daphne Spanish Fort Rotary Club, Fairhope Kiwanis Club, and the Gulf Shores Kiwanis Club. 3.3.3 Presentations at Professional Meetings Throughout the grant period, BCWCP staff presented the technical aspects of the BCWCP to other professionals. The presentations included: • Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association Annual Meeting • Nonpoint Source & Watershed Workshop (sponsored by the Weeks Bay Watershed Project) • Southeast Regional Users Group (SERUG) Annual Meeting at Orange Beach, AL. BCWCP staff presented a talk entitled “Applications of the Baldwin County Wetland Conservation Plan.” This talk focused on the technical aspects of the GIS component of the BCWCP. 28
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