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The D’Olive watershed plan, completed in 2010, is a strategic work plan for achieving goals that provided watershed assessment and management information for D’Olive Creek. I will discuss how the City of Daphne embraced the plan and interwove it into its regulations and used it as a guide for Ci...

Nearly 40% of all U.S. citizens now live within 100 miles of our nation’s coastlines. Human encroachment into coastal environments, and the reliance on the food, water, and services they provide, have triggered dramatic changes in the structure and productivity of many estuarine ecosystems signali...

Since the 1970s, excessive erosion and sedimentation have plagued D’Olive Watershed. This “system in peril” has some of the highest sediment rates ever measured by GSA. Compounding the problem, D’Olive Watershed lies within Baldwin County, the fastest-growing county in Alabama. Therefore, th...

Both natural and man-made disasters can lead to large amounts of debris along shorelines and in coastal waters. Unlike response to debris on land, determining jurisdiction and authority for marine debris removal can be complicated, funds may not be available, and debris may be left in place. Through...

In 2013, the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (MBNEP) embarked upon a holistic, watershed-based approach to guide coastal ecosystem restoration and protection measures recommended through watershed management planning. The MBNEP’s five-year Ecosystem Restoration and Protection strategy initiate...