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Setting the Stage Outline
Provide context for the LMAV, including past and present demographics, key resource issues, key social and economic issues, and land use history and pattern.
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Lead Author: Dr. James Fickle
In the beginning:
- Land, water, and vegetation
- Geomorphological setting and history
- Bottomland hardwood forests
- Coastal forests
History of development
- Extraction logging
- Clearing for agriculture
- Cropping
- More clearing for agriculture
- Hydrology impacts (ie. Levees, subsidence)
- Population growth and demographics
- Rural land ownership and use
- Urbanization
State of existing forest of the region
- Bottomland hardwood
- Coastal cypress-tupelo
Consequences of development:
- What has been lost?
- biodiversity, water quality, soil erosion, forest cover, flood control…
Future:
- Current and Emerging Issues
- New economic issues
- Land use trends
- Urbanization and growth
- Water quality/quantity challenges
- Economic viability
Information gaps
CASE STUDY
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