A Pivotal Moment for Leaders Across the Gulf Coast States and Connected Communities Throughout the Country.

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A Pivotal Moment for Leaders Across the Gulf Coast States and Connected Communities Throughout the Country

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore and Conserve Habitat Prioritize ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico by ensuring that social, environmental and economic outcomes are fully considered in all river management decisions, and by placing it on equal footing with other priorities such as navigation and flood damage risk reduction. Improve current sediment management practices to maximize to the extent practicable and ecologically acceptable the quantity and effective use of sediments by taking a “strategic use” approach to sediment management. Restore and preserve more natural river processes of sediment and freshwater distribution. Expand the network of state, federal and private conservation areas to ensure healthy landscapes that support the environment and culture of the region and the diverse services provided by the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Restore and conserve coastal and near-shore habitats, with a focus on marshes, mangroves, seagrasses, barrier islands, natural beaches and dunes, and coastal forests and prairies. Goal: Restore Water Quality Decrease and manage excess nutrient levels in the Gulf through the development and implementation of state nutrient reduction frameworks. Focus restoration actions in priority watersheds to address excess nutrients in coastal waters and reduce hypoxic conditions. Reduce pollutants and pathogens from stormwater flows and other sources. Improve the quality and quantity of freshwater flow into priority estuaries to protect their health and resiliency. Coordinate and expand existing water quality monitoring efforts supporting adaptive management of programs and projects designed to improve water quality. Collaborate with Mexico to assess and reduce emissions from oceangoing vessels in the Gulf that degrade water quality. Goal: Replenish and Protect Living Coastal and Marine Resources Restore depleted populations of living coastal and marine resources. Conserve and protect offshore environments. Restore and protect oyster and coral reefs. Coordinate and expand existing Gulf monitoring efforts to track sentinel species and sites. Minimize, and eliminate where possible, invasive species that impact the Gulf of Mexico. Goal: Enhance Community Resilience Develop and implement comprehensive, scientifically based, and stakeholder-informed coastal improvement programs. Provide analytical support tools to enhance community planning, risk assessment and smart growth implementation. Promote environmental stewardship by expanding environmental education and outreach.

- Goal: Restore and Conserve Habitat

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore and Conserve Habitat Prioritize ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico by ensuring that social, environmental and economic outcomes are fully considered in all river management decisions, and by placing it on equal footing with other priorities such as navigation and flood damage risk reduction. Improve current sediment management practices to maximize to the extent practicable and ecologically acceptable the quantity and effective use of sediments by taking a “strategic use” approach to sediment management. Restore and preserve more natural river processes of sediment and freshwater distribution.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore and Conserve Habitat Expand the network of state, federal and private conservation areas to ensure healthy landscapes that support the environment and culture of the region and the diverse services provided by the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore and Conserve Habitat Restore and conserve coastal and near-shore habitats, with a focus on marshes, mangroves, seagrasses, barrier islands, natural beaches and dunes, and coastal forests and prairies.

- Goal: Restore Water Quality 3 rd Largest Watershed in the World 66% of the Rivers within the Continental U.S. Flow to the Gulf…… …and, 80% of all precipitation reaches the Gulf.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore Water Quality Decrease and manage excess nutrient levels in the Gulf through the development and implementation of state nutrient reduction frameworks. Focus restoration actions in priority watersheds to address excess nutrients in coastal waters and reduce hypoxic conditions. Reduce pollutants and pathogens from stormwater flows and other sources.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore Water Quality Focus restoration actions in priority watersheds to address excess nutrients in coastal waters and reduce hypoxic conditions.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore Water Quality Reduce pollutants and pathogens from stormwater flows and other sources. Improve the quality and quantity of freshwater flow into priority estuaries to protect their health and resiliency.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore Water Quality Coordinate and expand existing water quality monitoring efforts supporting adaptive management of programs and projects designed to improve water quality.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Restore Water Quality Collaborate with Mexico to assess and reduce emissions from oceangoing vessels in the Gulf that degrade water quality.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Replenish and Protect Living Coastal and Marine Resources Restore depleted populations of living coastal and marine resources. Conserve and protect offshore environments. Restore and protect oyster and coral reefs. Coordinate and expand existing Gulf monitoring efforts to track sentinel species and sites. Minimize, and eliminate where possible, invasive species that impact the Gulf of Mexico.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Enhance Community Resilience Develop and implement comprehensive, scientifically based, and stakeholder-informed coastal improvement programs. Provide analytical support tools to enhance community planning, risk assessment and smart growth implementation. Promote environmental stewardship by expanding environmental education and outreach.

- MAJOR ACTIONS Goal: Enhance Community Resilience Provide analytical support tools to enhance community planning, risk assessment and smart growth implementation.