Coastal Planning

Coastal Planning

Oregon's coast, with its rugged headlands and shifting beaches, along with its susceptibility to natural hazards and its endangered habitats, offers many land use planning challenges.

Articles & Stories

  The Oregon Coastal and Oceans...
Coastal areas of Oregon (and the rest of western North America) are particularly vulnerable to...
Photo credit: Randy Baumhover, Shore Acres State Park, Oregon (2014) The term “biophysical”...
Photo Credit: Pat Kight, Oregon Sea Grant (2012)People receive many benefits from coastal and...
Photo Credit: NOAA, Marine Debris Program (2014) Marine pollution can originate from land,...

Maps and Tools

The Mid-Coast Water Report aggregates water data for a selected area of interest. The report... more

Data Collections

This Data Basin gallery contains the maps used in the spatial data review for the Oregon... more

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