Wetlands Mapper / National Wetlands Inventory

What do the codes mean?

• https://www.fws.gov/rivers/carp/sites/default/files/documents/wetlands-and-deepwater-map-code-diagram.pdf
• https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Classification-of-Wetlands-and-Deepwater-Habitats-of-the-United-States-2013.pdf#page=14
• https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Wetlands-Mapper-Documentation-Manual-May-2019.pdf#page=6
• https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/classification-codes
• https://water.usgs.gov/nwsum/WSP2425/definitions.html

Give more detail on the codes

• Marine, estuarine, riverine, lacustrine, and palustrine.
• Vegetation can be emergent, or forested, etc

Then there's lots of little modifiers.

• For emergent vegetation, it can be either persistent or nonpersistent, based on whether the "stems and leaves are evident all year above the surface of the water or soil surface".

Viewing it in Google Earth

You can install the special .KML file from here: https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/google-earth

To copy a specific feature from this .KML to another file in Google Earth:   You may not be able to do this? I'm not sure.