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Updated 04/24/2008

	Field Indicators of Hydric Soils in the United States This guide will help identify and delineate hydric soils in the field.  Indicators are not intended to replace or relieve the requirements contained in the definition of a hydric soil.  The list of Indicators is considered to be dynamic; changes and additions are anticipated annually.
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Wetland Restoration, Enhancement, and Management Handbook Chapter 13, Wetland Restoration, Enhancement, or Creation is one of the 19 chapters of the USDA NRCS Engineering Field Handbook. This chapter provides field personnel with a guide for wetland restoration, enhancement, and creation. It describes the planning, design, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring phases of wetland restoration, enhancement, or creation projects of all sizes. The Wetland Team is revising this chapter for release in 2008.

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Technical Note No. 190-72 : Noxious, Invasive, and Alien Plant Species: A Challenge in Wetland Restoration and Enhancement  A recently released (March, 2007) technical note (ECS-190-72) that discusses the processes and patterns of invasive plant species and how they interfere with wetland restoration success. Also included are fact sheets and control information on 13 invasive species that have the greatest impact to restoration work.

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• How to manipulate water in a new, restored or enhanced wetland to encourage plant establishment
• Technical Note No. 190-72 : Noxious, Invasive, and Alien Plant Species: A Challenge in Wetland Restoration and Enhancement
• Technical Note No. 190-73 : Identification of Plant Species’ Trinomials with Varying Wetland Indicator Status Designations: Northeast Region
• Wetland Restoration, Enhancement, and Management Handbook
• Wetland Plants: Their Function, Adaptation, and Relationship to Water Levels

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