Removed text from Chapter 4: Guidelines for Scoring CRAM Metrics. This information is now maintained in individual field books.
Removed some text from Chapter 3: Procedures for Using CRAM. This information is now maintained in individual field books.
Removed Appendix VI. This information is now maintained in the Vernal Pools field books.
Updated Appendix III with additional definitions
Updated References section with additional citations
Changed authorship, removed original Core and Regional Team information, added L2 Committee members.
Revised several figures and tables
Replaced Seasonal Estuarine wetland sub-type with Bar-built estuarine wetland sub-type
Revised wording throughout the document to be consistent with recent developments in CRAM and wetland assessment in California.
Fixed typos; updated heading and table of contents
Version 5.0.2 released 9/30/08
Changes in this version
Added section on version history of CRAM methodology and fixed typos
Added paragraph in Section 2.3.1 to explain separation of assessments of condition and stress
Added note to Section 3.2.2.2 that the depressional module was primarily based on perennial depressional wetlands and caution should be applied in the interpretation of scores in seasonal depressional wetlands
Corrected text in various Sections to eliminate inconsistencies in terminology
Updated figures in Chapter 3
Revised the ratings for scoring Structural Patch Richness for Estuarine wetlands
Version 5.0.1 released 10/17/07
Changes in this version
Minor wording changes for clarification
Version 5.0.0 released 9/18/07
Changes in this version
Version numbering changed from 4.6 to 5.0—no other changes
Version 4.6 released 9/10/07
Changes in this version
Substantial changes in nearly all areas
Version 4.2.3 released 11/1/06
Changes in this version
Reorganized volume 2 into three sections: Assessment Forms, Narratives, Tables & Figures; typos fixed
Version 4.2.2 released 8/17/06
Changes in this version
Added ciation to title page; typos fixed
Version 4.2.1 released 8/10/06
Changes in this version
Vol 1, p. 15: Table 2.2, added new metric name Plant Community and bulleted its four component submetrics
Vol 1, p. 36: Added language prescribing the calculation of mean submetric score in order to arrive at Plant Community metric value; in Table 3.8, changed expected maximum value of Biotic Structure attribute from 84 to 36 for Playas and Vernal Pools and 48 for all other wetland classes.
Vol 1, pp. 68-71: Changed “metric” to “submetric” for discussion of the four submetrics of the Plant Community metric.
Vol 2, pp.145-6: removed wrackline or organic debris in channel or on floodplain from worksheet 2 since this patch type is not expected in playas.
Vol 2, p. 55: Revised “D” narrative for number of plants layers present from "No layers are present" to "0-1 layer is present".
Vol 2, pp. 133, 149, 166: Removed shading from scoring sheet for Interspersion and Zonation since this metric is assessed for vernal pools and playas
Vol 2: Revised scoring forms to incorporate Plant Community metric
Version 4.2.0 released 8/4/06
Changes in this version
Split into two volumes: main manual and assessment forms
Created separate volume for assessment forms - all supporting documents included with each class
Updated entrenchment ratio and hydrologic connectivity metric bins
Revised bins for percent co-dominant species that are non-native
Added confined v. unconfined diagram
Revised scoring to a 1-12 scale for all metrics
Version 4.1 released 7/11/06
Changes in this version
Separated estuarine class into two sub-classes: saline and non-saline