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Section 309 of the Coastal Zone Management Act was created in 1990 to address coastal issues of national significance. New Hampshire’s program primarily focuses on two areas: wetland protection and cumulative and secondary impacts. Coastal restoration is more of a process than a single action. Degradation of a resource takes time, often decades, so the restoration of that resource will also take time. Second, restored habitats should be self-sustaining, that it, a large degree of maintenance and management should not be needed. Last, in most cases, resource managers cannot recreate the condition of a habitat before it was degraded. Thus, restoration attempts to mimic natural structures which should, over time, regain natural function. |
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