This report is the result of extensive research by Dr. Richard Lathrop and Scott Haag of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA) and the Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. The research was funded, in part, by a grant from the BBNEP in an effort to gather information about the health and status of riparian zones throughout the Barnegat Bay watershed. Click on the report title to download a PDF. Please also visit the CRSSA website to view all their research on the Barnegat Bay watershed at www.crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/runj/bbay.html.