Lopez Island

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Lopez Island is one of the San Juan Islands located in the San Juan Sub-basin

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Lopez island is surrounded by 20 drift cells (PSNERP; SPU 7084-7103). Only four beaches have substantial levels of armoring (greater than 40% of bluff backed beach with some indicator of sediment supply degradation. These units once contained 20 embayment shoreforms, four have been lost. Five of those remaining are associated with Fisherman's Bay.

Documents[edit]

  • Map of Lopez showing forage fish, eagle nest, and seal haul out data (PHS, 2011) on SSHIAP sub-basins and PSNERP drift cells, on an aerial photo and hillshade base.