Program Plan

The WRMP Program Plan identifies the science framework, regulatory context, governance structure, estimated costs, and funding sources for the Program. It also addresses the Guiding Questions through a tiered sequence of Management Questions and Monitoring Questions. 

Monitoring Plan

The Monitoring Plan is a visionary framework for Program monitoring that identifies and recommends a suite of monitoring actions that integrate key tidal wetland indicators across regional, subregional, and site-specific scales.

• Appendix 1: Regulatory Alignment
• Appendix 2: Preliminary Cost Estimates
• Appendix 3: CRAM Analysis in WRMP Sites
• Appendix 4: Justification for Subregional Monitoring Installations
• Appendix 5: People & Wetlands Monitoring Plan

Monitoring Matrix

The Monitoring Matrix is a planning spreadsheet linking Monitoring Questions, metrics, and indicators to existing monitoring approaches. It is a menu of monitoring options, of which the WRMP is implementing only a portion based on available funding.

Monitoring Matrix

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

• WRMP People & Wetlands SOP: Representation in Wetland Decision-Making, approved by the WRMP Steering Committee 2024
• WRMP Guidelines for Monitoring Fish and Fish Habitat, approved by the WRMP Technical Advisory Committee March 2024
• WRMP Vegetation Monitoring SOP, approved by the WRMP Technical Advisory Committee March 2023
• WRMP Hydrogeomorphic Monitoring SOP, approved by the WRMP Technical Advisory Committee, revised March 2023
• WRMP SOP Blog post (“What are SOPs?”), published July 2022
• WRMP Geospatial Monitoring SOP, approved by the WRMP Technical Advisory Committee March 2022

Monitoring Planning

• Open data sharing policy
• EcoAtlas Profile tool and Geospatial Data Catalog Update Report
• WRMP Near-term Monitoring Implementation Priorities Memo, approved by the WRMP Technical Advisory Committee June 2023
• WRMP Priority Monitoring Site Networks Memo, approved by the WRMP Steering Committee February 2023. Committee approval does not constitute a formal plan to initiate monitoring at any of the proposed monitoring sites/networks; it simply acknowledges that they collectively represent the best opportunity to implement the WRMP science framework in the near-term. This does not indicate landowner approval for WRMP monitoring to occur.
• WRMP Fit-Gap Analysis Report, approved by the WRMP Steering Committee June 2021
• WRMP Benchmark Site Recommendations, approved by the WRMP Steering Committee March 2021