1 23 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment An International Journal Devoted to Progress in the Use of Monitoring Data in Assessing Environmental Risks to Man and the Environment ISSN 0167-6369 Volume 182 Combined 1-4 Environ Monit Assess (2011) 182:31-46 DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1856-y Development and validation of rapid assessment indices of condition for coastal tidal wetlands in southern New England, USA Cathleen Wigand, Bruce Carlisle, Jan Smith, Mark Carullo, Debora Fillis, Michael Charpentier, Richard McKinney, Roxanne Johnson & James Heltshe