A GIS MODEL FOR POTENTIAL RIPARIAN WETLAND RESTORATION SITES IN THE WAYNE NATIONAL FOREST

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Title:	A GIS MODEL FOR POTENTIAL RIPARIAN WETLAND RESTORATION SITES IN THE WAYNE NATIONAL FOREST
Author:	Gibson, Doug A
Description:	The GIS model in this study is a wetland restoration model for the Athens Unit of the Wayne National Forest. It uses secondary GIS data to identify and prioritize potential restoration sites with a restoration category value derived from the criteria present. The first objective of the study is to create and visually validate the performance of the model. The second objective is to determine the efficiency of the model method to preliminarily identify potential restoration sites with a comparison to the traditional identification method. Only 39.1% of the sample sites are classified correctly in the field with a visual sampling of criteria present. An improvement to the model’s restoration categories results in 68.1% of the sites being classified correctly. This results in a stronger performing wetland restoration model that is a more efficient wetland restoration tool. There are other modifications to improve the model’s performance.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1148531879 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/13406
Date:	2006

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