Front Cover -David Scott of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) provided this year's cover photo. The photo was taken in the Mixed Swamp Forest Set-Aside, which is part of the Savannah River swamp. This Set-Aside is one of the original ten SREL habitat reserve areas selected in 1968 to represent a diversity of bottomland hardwood/ fl oodplain forest communities of a southern river swamp system. Represented are aquatic, semi-aquatic, and terrestrial habitats associated with cypress-tupelo ponds, mixed hardwood sloughs, and mixed hardwood ridges. This Set-Aside is important because seasonally fl ooded hardwood forests are becoming increasingly rare habitats that are particularly vulnerable to habitat destruction and/or alteration due to drainage, water control projects, industrial or urban waste discharge, or power plant cooling effl uents. The fl ower in the foreground is called Lizard's Tail (Latin name Saururus cernuus). It grows in a variety of aquatic habitats, but on SRS it can be particularly abundant in some of the swamp forests.For more information about this report, or to obtain additional copies, contact Amy Meyer Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC Building 735-B, Savannah River Site P. O. Box A Aiken, SC 29802-9969 Telephone: (803) 952-8660 E-mail address: Amy.meyer@srs.gov This document was prepared in conjunction with work accomplished under Contract No. DE-AC09-08SR22470 with the U.S. Department of Energy. This work was conducted under an agreement with, and funded by, the U.S. Government. Neither the U.S. Government nor its employees, nor any of its contractors or subcontractors or their employees, makes any expressed or implied 1) warranty or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy or completeness -or for the use or results of such use -of any information, product, or process disclosed; or 2) representation that such use or results of such use would not infringe on privately owned rights; or 3) endorsement or recommendation of any specifically identifi ed commercial product, process, or service. Any views and opinions of authors expressed in this document do not necessarily state or refl ect those of the U.S. Government, or of its contractors or subcontractors. Special thanks to Taressa Barnes for providing expert word processing and design support.Special thanks to David Scott of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) for providing the cover photo.Special thanks to Emily Macdonald and Kevin Kytola of Sapere Consulting, Inc. for providing technical editing services.Thanks to Rachel Baker, Roy Blackwell, and James Tussey for providing computer hardware and software support.Marvin Stewart is acknowledged with appreciation for providing Internet expertise and computer software support.
USFS-SR Mark CramerA special acknowledgement for our late friend and colleague, Mark Cramer, who passed away June 5, 2013, for his support of our efforts to produce a quality document for the Site.A special thanks to Gail Whitney for coordinating the DOE-SR review and approval process, which req...