Correction Re: NW Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve

[Jim Hendee]

Sorry about the error.  We haven't even been counting our ballots too well
down here in Florida, either!

	cheers, Jim

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Roger B Griffis wrote:

> Coral List - Today's announcement and additional information on the new
> Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve is
> available at the web sites listed below.  In addition, Jim Hendee's email
> incorrectly stated the size of the Reserve as 3.5 million acres.  The Reserve
> is approximately 84 million acres, of which approximately 4% or 3.3 million
> acres is "coral reef habitats".  The NWHI Reserve is the largest protected
> area established in U.S. history.  Other information on size of the NWHI
> Coral Reef Reserve:
> 
> Approximate Area of the Reserve:
> 131,800 square statute miles
> 99,500 square nautical miles
> 341,360 sq. kilometers
> 84,365,000 acres
> Approximately length of the Reserve:  1200 miles long
> Approximate width of the Reserve: 100 miles wide.
> 
> Some comparisons -  The NWHI Reserve is:
> 
> - More area than Florida and Georgia combined
> - Area about half the area of Texas
> - About as long as distance from Seattle to Los Angeles
> - As large as all of the U.S. National Park areas combined.
> - 7 times the area of the 13 current National Marine Sanctuaries
> - Almost as large as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park = 102,043 square
> nautical miles (NWHI Reserve is 99,500 sq naut miles)
> - 2nd largest marine protected area in the world
> - Largest protected area in US history
> 
> For more information see:
> 
> White House announcement:
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/new/html/Mon_Dec_4_120901_2000.html
> 
> President Clinton's Speech on NWHI Coral Reef Reserve:
> http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/12/4/7.text.1
> 
> NOAA Web Site on NWHI Coral Reef Reserve
> (fact sheets, call for public comment, etc)
> http://hawaiireef.noaa.gov/
> __________________
> Jim Hendee wrote:
> 
> > In a ceremony at the National Geographic Society's headquarters in
> > Washington, DC, President William Jefferson Clinton today announced in an
> > Executive Order the creation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral
> > Reef Ecosystem Reserve, setting aside 3.5 million acres for preservation.
> > This is the largest area of conservation in U.S. history and the second
> > largest marine protected area on earth, second only to the Great Barrier
> > Reef in Australia.  Approximately 70 percent of U.S. coral reefs are in
> > the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
> >
> > More information will be announced by NOAA personnel later, but for now,
> > please review this site for more information:
> >
> >         http://hawaiireef.noaa.gov/
> >
> >         Cheers,
> >         Jim
> 
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