Extensive consultation with Neal Maine of the Oregon Wetlands Study, ChrisSwarth and Judy Burke of Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary in Maryland, and MitchKeiller of the State of Maryland helped to shape the content of this docu-ment.The NOAA Sea Grant 2ellowship enabled Matthew Witten to spend the yearof 1997 working in the area of volunteer wetland monitoring at the EPAWetlands Division in Washington, DC. Subsequently, EPA provided Wittenwith assistance funding through the Environmental Careers Organization.These programs enabled him to contribute to the scope and content of thisdocument, as well as other volunteer wetland monitoring activities.Reviewers from the EPA Wetlands Division, EPA Region 10, EPA Assessmentand Watershed Protection Division, Professor of 2isheries and Zoology JamesKarr at the University of Washington, 2aculty Research Assistant Paul Adamusat Oregon State University, and Eleanor Ely, editor of The Volunteer Monitornewsletter, contributed invaluably to the scope and content of this document.