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[Wind]

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[Motor boat]

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[Water trickling]

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Narrator - U.S. Geological Survey scientists collaborated

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with partners to develop an innovative new
tool to help resource managers prepare Pacific

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coastal wetlands for rising sea levels.

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Scientist
Wetlands are an important habitat for both

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fish and wildlife and they also provide this
unique ability to act as sponges and absorb

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water from storms and sea level rise so they're
really important to study and learn more about.

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Narrator
The study results project that future wetland

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loss from sea-level rise will vary by estuary
and the rate of sea level rise and that the

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projected loss of tidal wetlands is highest
in the latter part of the 21st century and

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under the highest rates of for rising sea
levels.

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Scientists calling out numbers - 230, 229

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Narrator
This new research offers a modeling tool to

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resource managers that gives insight into
a range of futures for Pacific tidal wetlands

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and can help resource managers plan for these
possible future scenarios that may help preserve

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these important ecosystems for human and wildlife
communities.