DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this task was to definitively map feeder bluffs and accretion shoreforms along the entire shore of both Whidbey and Camano Islands. Although coastal drift cells were mapped years ago, more spatially explicit characterization of the physical processes occurring within each drift cell had not been comprehensively mapped within Island County to modern mapping standards. Unlike other recent related studies in the Puget Sound region, the work was based on field-based mapping of current conditions, and not just on analyses of existing Geographic Information System (GIS) data sets collected by others for varying purposes during the past.