Landforms

We use current regional planning models to chop the ecosystem into management units. We are working on representing these places in maps:

• PSNERP has provided us with deltas, beaches and embayments, and offers a basis for identifying headlands. You can view these places using the Nearshore Portal
• The watershed characterization project differentiates between headwaters and lowland watersheds within our big river systems, by defining watershed management units (commonly called sub-basins in salmon recovery planning.
• The Floodplains by design project is taking a look at floodplains at a regional scale. Data layers defining floodplain units have not been released yet.

People define Place pages let people define place in ways that don't fit these 'management units'.