List of Abbreviations

APES = Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study (database)

ATTAINS = Assessment TMDL Tracking and Implementation System

BEHI = Bank Erosion Hazard Index

BLM = Bureau of Land Management

C-CAP = Coastal Change Analysis Program

CCAP = NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program

CMAQ = Community Multi-scale Air Quality Model

CREP = Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

CTNC = Conservation Trust of North Carolina

CWMTF = Clean Water Management Trust Fund

CWS = Composite Wetland System

CZM = Coastal Zone Management

DEP = Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

DFIRM= FEMA Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map

DLG = United States Geological Survey Digital Line Graph

DWWI = Digital Wisconsin Wetland Inventory

FEMA = Federal Emergency Management Agency

GAP = Gap Analysis Project

GISC = Georgia Impervious Surface Cover

ICBEMP = Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project

INSTAR = Interactive Stream Assessment Resource database

LDWF = Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

MCBS = Minnesota County Biological Survey

MNFI = Michigan Natural Features Inventory

MTDEQ = Montana Department of Environmental Quality

MTDNRC= Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation

MTNRIS = Montana Natural Resource Information System

NARSAL = Natural Resources Spatial Analysis Laboratory

NASS = USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service

NC CPT = North Carolina One Map Conservation Planning Tool

NCDCM = North Carolina Division of Coastal Management

NCDENR = North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources

NCDOT = North Carolina Department of Transportation

NCDWQ = North Carolina Department of Water Quality

NCWRC = North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

NCWRC CREWS = North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Coastal Region Evaluation of Wetland Significance

NED = United States Geological Survey National Elevation Dataset

NFHAP = National Fish Habitat Action Partnership

NHD = USGS National Hydrography dataset

NHDOT = New Hampshire Department of Transportation

NHGRANIT = New Hampshire Geographically Referenced Analysis and Information Transfer System

NHLCA = New Hampshire Land Cover Assessment

NHPCS = National Heritage Priority Conservation Site

NLCD = National Land Cover Dataset

NPDAT = Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution Data Access Tool

NRCS = Natural Resource Conservation Service

NRCS WBD = Natural Resource Conservation Service Watershed Boundary Dataset

NRRSS = National River Restoration Science Synthesis (database)

NWI = United States Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory

RAD = Reach Address Database

REMSAD = Regional Modeling System for Aerosols and Deposition

RIBITS = Regulatory In-lieu fee and Banking Information Tracking System

RMBO = Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

SEWRPC = Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission

SPARROW = SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes

SSURGO = Soil Survey Geographic (database)

TIGER = Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (system)

TIP = Transportation Improvement Program

TMDL = Total Maximum Daily Load

UM NTSG = University of Montana Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group

USACE = United States Army Corps of Engineeers

USDA = United States Department of Agriculture

USGS = United States Geological Survey

VaNLA = Virginia Natural Landscape Assessment

VCU = Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU-CES = Virginia Commonwealth University - Center for Environmental Studies

VDCR = Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

VDCR-VDNH Virginia Department of Conservation Division of Natural Heritage

VDEQ = Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

VDGIF = Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

VIRGIS = Virginia GIS Project

WISCLAND = Wisconsin Initiative for Statewide Cooperation on Landscape Analysis and Data

WRTD = Wetland Restoration Tracking Database

WVDEP = West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.

WWI = Wisconsin Wetland Inventory