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1 Introduction
Pages 11-16

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... . The GoM has helped shape the culture and economy of not only the five Gulf states but also the United States as a whole.1 However, these transformations have come with costs, including habitat loss from coastal development, pollution and ecological alteration from oil and gas extraction, ecological alteration from overfishing, and coastal erosion from channelization and dredging.
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... The settlement and agreement funds specifically related to restoration activities were allocated to three primary funding sources and designated for specific purposes (Diamond et al., 2014; ELI, 2020) : • The Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA)
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... and formed with the aim of improving coordination, accessibility, and comparability of monitoring information; this effort ended in 2021 but the work will be continued by GOMA's new Gulf-wide Monitoring effort in 2022 in accordance with its new Governors' Action Plan IV.11 Both the DWH NRDA Trustee Council and the RESTORE Council acknowledge the interconnected nature of the GoM's natural resources and the need to think comprehensively about restoration at scales beyond the project level (DWH NRDA Trustees, 2016; RESTORE Council, 2016)
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... The study scope was developed based on these conversations, as well as on information provided in publications from Gulf-based entities, nongovernmental organizations, and the National Academies -- see Box 1.1 for the formal Statement of Task. Relevant National Academies reports include Effective Monitoring to Evaluate Ecological Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico (NASEM, 2017)
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... In its deliberations, the committee decided that the geographic scope would include restoration efforts in all five Gulf states. Further, the spatial scale considered would focus on restoration efforts at the watershed/landscape scale and larger, and would include restoration efforts initiated before the DWH disaster, as well as those funded by DWH settlement funds, because of their integrated relationship on the landscape.
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... Speakers shared their knowledge and expertise in GoM environmental trends, ecological restoration, and natural resource management. For longer-term context, the committee also heard from an expert in restoration efforts following the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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