Marine Managed Areas: Best Practices for Boundary Making is now available

This 66-page handbook provides a brief, useful “best practices” guide for writing and developing marine boundaries within a geographic information system framework for federal, state, or local marine managed areas. The handbook was a two-year development effort created by the Federal Geographic Data Committee’s Marine Boundary Working Group.

Please go to the following Web site to request printed copies or download the .pdf version.   Also, please feel free to distribute the URL to anyone who might be interested.

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/mb_handbook/