Past TAG Meeting Materials

The following items are provided as a summary of previous meeting discussions and to provide references for the background and methods used to develop the WRAPP.

Helpful Resources for Watershed-Based Preliminary Assessment of Wetland Functions (W-PAWF)

• Draft Functional Assessment Criteria, SMC, Updated January 20, 2016 (PDF)
• Final Report, Region 5 Wetland Management and Marketing Plan: Select Watersheds in the Lower Fox and Des Plaines River Watersheds, Tetra Tech 2015 (PDF)
• Landscape Level Wetland Functional Assessment (LLWFA), Version 1.0, Methodology Report, Michigan DEQ, 2011 (PDF)
• The Duck-Pensaukee Watershed Approach, The Nature Conservancy& WI DNR, 2012 (PDF)
• Methods and Results for a Geographic Information System Landscape Model of Wetland Functions in the Sandusky Subbasin, PG Environmental, 2014
• Advanced Identification (ADID) Study, Lake County, IL, Final Report, NIPC et al, 1992 (PDF)
• Wetland Conservation Strategy Model, Development Abstract Outline, NIPC & Chicago Wilderness, 2005 (PDF)

Helpful Resources for Wetland Classification

• NWI 2015 Classification System (PDF)
• Soil Survey of Lake County, SCS, 1970 (PDF)

February 2016

• Draft Functional Assessment Criteria for Water Quality Working Group
• Draft Functional Assessment Criteria for Hydrology Working Group
• Draft Functional Assessment Criteria for Biodiversity Working Group   

January 20, 2016

• Agenda (PDF)
• Meeting #2 Draft Report (PDF)
• Classification and Functional Assessment Powerpoint (PDF)
• LLWW Classification Scheme (PDF)

November 18, 2015

• Agenda (PDF)
• Draft List of Potential Wetland Functions (PDF)
• Draft Functional Assessment Criteria (PDF)
• Working Groups for Preliminary Assessment of Wetland Functions (PDF)

September 30, 2015

• List of Potential Wetland Functions (PDF)
• NWI 2015 Classification System (PDF)
• Correlation of Enhanced NWI Data with Wetland Functions for Watershed Assessment (PDF)
• LLWW Summary Sheet (PDF)
• Wetland Function Screening Methods for Upper Des Plaines (IL) and Lower Fox (WI) (PDF)
• WRAPP Background and Introduction, TAG Involvement and Expectations (PDF)
• Mapping for Functional Assessment (PDF)
• Hydrogeopmorphic Wetland Classification (Landscape Position, Landform, Waterbody Type "LLWW") (PDF)