NOAA publishes the regional partner roster through its Office of Protected Resources and through state-level MMHSRP coordinators. A sheet that mirrors that data, refreshed monthly, becomes the SleekRank source. Cache duration controls how often the directory re-reads the sheet.

NOAA recognizes roughly 20 coastal regions across the US plus Pacific territories. SleekRank scales to any number of rows, so adding a regional split or merging two regions is a sheet edit that propagates after the next cache cycle, no page restructure needed.

The base index page can include a zip-code lookup that maps to region slugs and routes the reader to /marine-mammal-rescue/central-california/ or similar. The lookup table lives alongside the roster, and SleekRank keeps the destination URLs stable as regions change.

Update the intake_facility and stranding_hotline columns in the row. The regional URL stays stable because slug is constant, while the contact and facility update after the next cache cycle. Readers bookmarking the region page never hit a 404 during the transition.

Yes, but the MMPA copy belongs on the base page, not in row fields. Per-region pages inherit the legal framing from the base, while row-specific data like hotline and facility renders through mappings. Updates to the legal copy happen once on the base page.

Hawaii is its own region in the source, with Hawaiian monk seal listed in species_response and NOAA Honolulu as intake facility. Searches for Hawaiian monk seal stranded land on /marine-mammal-rescue/hawaii/ with the right hotline, since the row covers the species explicitly.

Yes. Add a reporting_form_url column that points at the regional NOAA Fisheries stranding report. Per-region pages bind a button to that URL, so readers who want to file a formal report after calling the hotline reach the right intake form for their region.

Cache duration is configurable. A twelve-hour cycle keeps the directory aligned with monthly NOAA updates without hammering the source. For a major regional restructure, clear the SleekRank items table to force a re-read after the sheet update is published.