Lisa B' Beever, PhD, AICP

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Science Forum Special Zones and Seagrass

• Lisa B. Beever, PhD, AICP
• July 9, 2008

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Lee County Proposed Notice for General Permit
(NGP)

• Overall plan with published minimum depths
• Allows for dredging in Aquatic Preserves (AP)
• No Internal Combustion Motor Zones (NICMZs)
• Address both seagrass and other benthic
• Needs, alternatives, refined selected plan
• Dredging in AP limited to spot dredging
• Both AP dredging and NICMZs still controversial
• Interest in effectiveness of special zones to
  restore seagrasses (and other benthic resources)

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2006 Habitats
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Special Zones and Seagrass

• Mosquito LagoonDorn Whitmore, Merrit Island NWR
• Cockroach Bay Seagrass Management Plan
  DevelopmentEd Sherwood, Tampa Bay Estuary
  Program
• Cockroach Bay Poll and Troll Task ForceTom Ash,
  Environmental Protection Commission of
  Hillsborough

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Charlotte Harbor National Estuary
Program Director Lisa B. Beever, PhD,
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