The Great Lakes Coastal Assembly – through Blue Accounting – is tracking coastal wetland health to better understand our collective progress towards shared goals. These goals and their associated metrics were identified collaboratively by the Assembly.

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Coastal wetland function, type, and extent
Updated on: June 14 2019

A resilient system of Great Lakes coastal wetlands with diverse wetland type representation having hydrologic and other wetland processes within the natural range of variability.

  1. Objective: reach Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) action plan II and III annual coastal wetland acreage target values
    • Metric: total coastal wetland acreage protected, enhanced, or restored by GLRI projects