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Get Involved / Community-Based Restoration
Illinois: Forest Preserve Habitat will be Restored during Work Day
A habitat restoration work day will be from 9 a.m. to noon April 26 at Bliss Woods Forest Preserve, Bliss Road a half-mile northeast of Route 47. Volunteers are needed to cut and stack the invasive, non-native species that threaten the preserve, such as buckthorn and honeysuckle, for later burning or chipping. Old clothes in layers, work gloves, and handsaws or loppers, if available, are recommended.
http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2008/04/09/news/local/doc47fc9712cea4e491974485.txt
Maryland: Volunteers Needed for Tree Planting at Bennett Creek, April 12, 2008
Potomac Conservancy seeks volunteers to plant native trees along Bennett Creek, in Frederick, MD. Planting trees will improve wildlife habitat and protect the stream from nutrient and sediment pollution. No experience is necessary. This event is a part of the Bennett Creek Restoration Initiative, a collaborative project to improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat and reduce impacts associated with development and agriculture.
http://www.potomac.org/site/2008/04/07/april-12-tree-planting-bennett-creek-green-valley-md/
Wisconsin: Plant Community Ecology Internship - Summer 2008
Necedah National Wildlife Refuge has two large scale restoration projects that require interns. The first is savanna restoration that was initiated in 1960 and involves approximately 4,000 acres in various stages of restoration. Interns will participate in all phases of the restoration program but highlights include: vegetation monitoring before and after restoration, invasive plant mapping, public education, on and off-site rare plant seed collection, and plant propagation. The second large scale restoration project involves sedge meadows. These restorations are made possible by plugging drainage ditches, which restores meadow hydrology. These ditches were constructed more than 100 years ago during an era called the "Drainage Dream" by Aldo Leopold. This project also involves vegetation monitoring before and after restoration but also includes hydrologic monitoring.
http://biojobs.blogspot.com/2008/04/plant-community-ecology-summer.html
Florida: Local Students Help Environment
These days the environment is a big concern for everyone. Local middle school students are getting the chance to learn how to protect it. Merrit Brown Middle School 7th graders got the chance to learn how to keep the environment safe. The students participated in the grasses in classes program that began last November. The University of Florida Bay County co-op helped the students plant cord grass at the living shoreline at Carl Grey Park. The students grew the grass at a greenhouse and transplanted it to the shoreline.
http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/17267989.html
Michigan: DNR Seeks Volunteers for Native Tree Planting at Seven Lakes State Park
The Department of Natural Resources' Parks and Recreation Stewardship Unit will be holding two special volunteer workdays April 13 & 19 at Seven Lakes State Park, and are seeking volunteers to help plant native tree seedlings. Volunteers will plant native white and black oak saplings on the hills surrounding Sand Lake to help restore oak-hickory forest within the park.
http://outdoornewsdaily.com/index.php/archives/3338
Earth Month Restoration Event!
April and Earth Month have definitely arrived. The sun is shining, the cherry trees are blossoming, and yes, the weeds are growing! Our urban forests and natural spaces are a wonderful treasure, especially for families with children. During the past year, Earth Ministry has partnered with EarthCorps to work on restoration projects in local parks. It has been an extraordinarily gratifying experience to see people of faith getting their hands dirty for the environment! An amazing amount of progress can be made when we join together for a short four-hour session of pulling ivy or planting native shrubs.
http://earthministry.blogspot.com/2008/04/beth-earth-month-restoration-event.html
Seek Leads to Early Projects and Initiatives for History of Restoration
We are interested in documenting projects that represent early attempts at restoration, as defined by SER, or that are related to this form of land management in interesting ways. We are also interested in initiatives related to the development and application of restoration for environmental, educational or scientific purposes, or its use in landscaping, soil rehabilitation, hydrological management and the like. If you have suggestions, please contact me at newacademy@comcast.net, 815-337-6896; or George at George.Lubick@NAU.EDU; 928-523-6211.
Wetland Restoration and Wetland Delineation Short Courses
Professional wetland short courses for practicing engineers, planners, scientists, and resource managers at the Heffner Wetland Building at the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, Columbus, Ohio. July 9-11, 2008 (3 days) CREATION AND RESTORATION OF WETLANDS with William J. Mitsch and Roy R. "Robin" Lewis, and August 11-15, 2008 (5 days) WETLAND DELINEATION with Ralph W. Tiner, Mark D. DeBrock, Frank Gibbs, and William J. Mitsch.
http://swamp.osu.edu/ShortCourses/index.html
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People in the News
Landscape Architect Seeks to Preserve Streambeds, Woodlands
As a Towson elementary school student, Keith Bowers took a field trip to Columbia during the 1960s to watch the town being built and to walk on one of the trails that wind beneath an overpass. Decades later, the 48-year-old landscape architect, founder and president of Biohabitats Inc., is looking at ways to protect, conserve and restore Columbia's land, streambeds and woodlands as downtown becomes more populated.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.bowers06apr06,0,7641529.story
Environmental Management Brings Home Distinguished Awards
The Pinellas County Environmental Management Department recently received several distinguished awards from the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council. The 16th annual Future of the Region Awards ceremony in Tampa on March 28 recognized "notable achievement in resource planning and management in the Tampa Bay region." Awards were garnered by the Environmental Lands Division, and for the Clean Marina Program and the Lake Seminole Habitat Restoration Project.
http://www.tbnweekly.com/pinellas_county/content_articles/040808_pco-04.txt
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New Value for Old Forests
Newly sensitised to the dangers of climate change, researchers around the world are making progress in helping to protect old growth forests that are threatened by fires, urban development and logging. This week the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) published a scientific summary of the 'Old Forests, New Management' international conference, held February, in Hobart, Tasmania, that is expected to influence current thought and policy worldwide.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41858
Some Migratory Birds Can't Find Success in Urban Areas
New research finds fresh evidence that urbanization in the United States threatens the populations of some species of migratory birds. But the six-year study also refutes one of the most widely accepted explanations of why urban areas are so hostile to some kinds of birds.
http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/34068
Local Control Saves Forests
There will likely be fewer wildfires and more trees for future generations if loggers abide by a set of international rules on forest management, says a new study by independent environmentalists. In releasing the 18-page study, the New York-based Rainforest Alliance said minimal deforestation and few wildfires occurred in areas managed according to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification standards.
http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/34070
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Venezuela: Farewell, Trawl-Fishing
Trawl-fishing is on its way out in Venezuela, amid demonstrations by artisanal fisherfolk who support the new law as amended by President Hugo Chávez. "Trawling is killing off fish species. In our case, we fish with hooks, catch a 'pargo' (sea bream), try again, catch a 'mero' (grouper), and clean them as we go. We used to fill the boats in a single night, but for years now that hasn't happened, and sometimes we come back empty-handed," Manuel González told IPS.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41902
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| Agro-Ecology
A Collective Ignorance About How Agriculture Interacts With Natural Systems
Representatives from countries, civil society and the private sector are meeting this week in Johannesburg, South Africa, to review the findings of the three-year International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). This global initiative has examined agriculture from all angles, to determine how farming might be done more sustainably in the future. At the opening plenary of the Apr. 7-12 meeting, Achim Steiner -- executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- addressed delegates about the need for new agricultural strategies.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41922
How to Kickstart an Agricultural Revolution
Farms just produce food, right? Not for long perhaps. If a controversial utopian vision of how to save the world is accepted at a meeting in South Africa next week, farming could undergo its biggest transformation in history. In this vision, farmers won't just have to produce enough to head off the Malthusian food crisis economists believe is threatening the planet as its population grows ever larger. They will also be made custodians of nature, crusaders in the battle to combat climate change, engines of economic growth and gurus spreading technology and education to the remotest corners of the world.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826503.900-how-to-kickstart-an-agricultural-revolution.html
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| Biodiversity & Climate Change
Indigenous People Key to Coping with Climate Change
Indigenous people may hold the key to coping with climate change, a United Nations University (UNU) conference in Darwin has heard. Ah Zakri, director of the UNU's Japan-based Institute of Advanced Studies, today said indigenous people left the smallest ecological footprints on earth.
"Most indigenous peoples practise sustainable carbon neutral lives or even carbon negative life ways which has sustained them over thousands of years," he said. "There are at least 370 million indigenous people throughout the world living relatively neutral or even carbon negative lifestyles.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4463048a12.html
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Canada: Time Running Out to Protect B.C. Coastal Forest
The B.C. government is in danger of missing its own deadline for putting a conservation plan in place for the Great Bear Rainforest, an environment group said Monday. The government plan includes protecting an area of the province's north and central coasts more than 5,000 times the size of Vancouver's Stanley Park and committing to a new approach to logging called ecosystem-based management, said a spokeswoman for ForestEthics, which works for the protection of endangered forests in Canada.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/03/31/bc-great-bear-forest.html
Tropical Reforestation Aided by Bats
This novel method for tropical restoration is presented in a new study published online in the science journal Conservation Biology this week. Detlev Kelm from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin (IZW) and Kerstin Wiesner and Otto von Helversen from the University of Erlangen -Nuremberg report that the deployment of artificial bat roosts significantly increases seed dispersal of a wide range of tropical forest plants into their surroundings, providing a simple and cheap method to speed up natural forest regeneration.
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/umwelt_naturschutz/bericht-106908.html
Western White Pine Survivability: the Politics of Nature
The effective loss of western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl.) in the white pine ecosystem has far-reaching effects on the sustainability of local forests and both regional and global forestry issues. Continuing trends in management of this forest type has the potential to put western white pine, as well as the ecosystem it once dominated, at very high risk in the future. Societal issues associated with natural resource management must be resolved early in the 21st century to allow restoration of this ecosystem so that the Interior Northwest's most productive forests can be sustainable at levels near their historical potential.
http://landscapedesignweb.com/2008/04/06/western-white-pine-survivability-the-politics-of-nature/
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| Wetland Restoration
Illinois: Elgin Tree Clearing to Make Wetland Healthier
The vast tree clearing alongside Randall Road near Tyler Creek in Elgin isn't a sign that Mr. T has come to town or the emerald ash borer has struck. Rather, it's part of an enhancement of 20 acres of wetlands that will result in a better environment and also could deter outdoor parties and illegal ATV riding.
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=167117&src=5
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River & Watershed Restoration
Washington: Lundeen Creek Regains its Glory
The air is sweeter along Lundeen Creek these days as thousands of plants take root in one of Snohomish County's most distinctive restoration projects. "It's kind of refreshing out here, better than the chlorine air I usually breathe," said 16-year-old Nathan Schaffer of Marysville. Schaffer joined his Mighty Marlins swim team last weekend to help put in hundreds of new plants along the creek's route.
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080408/NEWS01/484197984/-1/news01#Lundeen.Creek.regains.its.glory
Oregon: Tribes Seal $900 Million Deal
For decades, as Columbia and Snake river dams helped push salmon, sturgeon and lamprey numbers down, Northwest tribes battled the federal government over its treatment of what the tribes see as sacred species. That dynamic changed Monday, when four tribes and the government announced a history-making deal: The tribes will agree for 10 years to support the government's controversial plans for operating its dams and bow out of a long-running lawsuit that has faulted dam operations. And they pledge not to advocate breaching dams or listing Pacific lamprey as endangered.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/12076269247530.xml&coll=7
http://news.opb.org/article/environmentalists-upset-over-tribal-deal/
Florida: Massive Reservoir Size of Manhattan Intended to Help Everglades
South Florida water managers are building what will be the largest above-ground reservoir in the world as part of overall Everglades restoration. The site just south of Lake Okeechobee will be 25 square miles. That's larger than Manhattan. It will eventually hold 62 billion gallons of water and is a key component to restoring the once famed River of Grass.
http://www.wwsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8122780
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New Mexico: Missile Range Recognized for Environmental Cooperation
H. Dale Hall, director of the U.S Fish & Wildlife Service, has named the Department of the Army's White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico as the recipient of his 2007 Military Conservation Partner Award. The 2.2-million acre missile range has been a key partner in protecting the rare and endangered wildlife that lives in the Chihuahuan desert habitat.
http://www.dchieftain.com/news/79073-04-02-08.html
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| Lake Restoration
Louisiana: Weir Policy and Spanish Lake
Spanish Lake and its surrounding forested wetland ecosystem have considerable historical significance as well as enormous importance to our environment, to our water quality and to our capacity to manage flooding in this watershed. Our company has acquired land in that basin to enhance and maintain this unique ecosystem in its native state in perpetuity. Our goal is to balance responsible stewardship of America's ecosystems through restoration and preservation of environmentally sensitive lands.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/17346089.html
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| Coastal & Marine Restoration
Massachusetts: Restoring an Estuary Project
Undoing all that people over the centuries have done to the Mill River estuary isn't possible. The fiddling began, after all, almost as soon as the English adventurers decided to stay and needed to mill timber for their homes and corn for their tables. The answer to their most basic needs, including fresh water, was the peninsula's most dependable stream, where it emptied into the ocean waters around which the settlement grew.
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_097211228.html?keyword=secondarystory
Louisiana: Peer Reviewers Raise Questions over Coastal Restoration Plans
Robert Meade, a retired U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist charged with peer-reviewing coastal restoration plans of the Army Corps of Engineers, seemed perturbed in a Thursday meeting when corps officials said they needed "more study" to answer a basic question. Meade had asked how much sediment is carried by the Mississippi River, the main source of mud for rebuilding Louisiana's coast.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/peer_reviewers_raise_questions.html
Chesapeake Bay Suffering, Restoration Efforts Treading Water
The health of the Chesapeake Bay is dismal and more than three decades of restoration efforts have done little to improve the condition of the nation's largest estuary, according to two independent assessments released Thursday. The reports add to a litany of evidence that the water quality throughout the bay and its tributaries is severely degraded and echo lingering concern that the plan for cleaning up the ecosystem is not working.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2008/2008-04-04-10.asp
Florida: Pelican Island Restoration could become 'Almost Worthless' without More Money
The effort to restore native greenery within the country's first national wildlife refuge could be undone by the lack of another type of green. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has run out of money after spending about $80,000 to restore habitat for the plethora of wading birds, fish, turtles and other wildlife on Preacher's Island at the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/apr/03/30gtpelican-island-restoration-could-become-more/
California: SF Bay Salt Ponds Being Turned Back to Nature
Several salt ponds in San Francisco Bay are being restored to their natural state, and scientists say it could take about 50 years. "We would not want to have partial restoration where there's not enough sediment to fully restore what is breeched. We want to go at a pace that will allow us to predict safely what can be achieved," said Steven Schwartzbach, the director of the Western Ecological Research Center at the U.S.G.S.
http://www.kcbs.com/SF-Bay-Salt-Ponds-Being-Turned-Back-to-Nature/1953454
Beach Grass Planting Helps Stabilize Delaware Shoreline
More than 500 volunteers and DNREC's Shoreline and Waterway Management team converged on public beaches along the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay on April 5 to plant beach grass that will stabilize and protect sand dunes. The event, held each year since 1990, is vital to help conserve Delaware's beaches and protect inland properties from coastal flooding.
http://outdoornewsdaily.com/index.php/archives/3397
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Wildlife Restoration
US: Why the Buffalo can't Roam
Since February, some 1,400 wandering Yellowstone bison have been killed under a controversial plan meant to prevent brucellosis - a livestock disease that causes spontaneous abortions - from spreading to cattle near the park. Five agencies are charged with keeping the park's bison population within park boundaries, but the animals keep migrating out, entering private ranchland. Each winter, hundreds are either hazed back into Yellowstone, or rounded up for slaughter. Environmentalists have long decried the hazing and killing - and a new report from the Government Accountability Office confirms that the bison plan has serious flaws.
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=17653&fhp
UK: Huge Project to Create New Wildlife Habitat in Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire
A groundbreaking partnership that covers an area of 73km2 which includes the river catchment for the whole of the River Ray, as well as BBOWT and RSPB reserves that fall into the area. The project help shape the future of wildlife and landscape conservation has being launched by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) and the RSPB. The 'Ray Valley Restoration Project' will create new wetland wildlife habitats, improve river water quality and increase community involvement in conservation across the River Ray landscape.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/ray-valley234.html
Ohio: Birds of Prey Flourishing
Wildlife habitat restoration in Ohio is paying off for the state's birds of prey, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday, April 3. Bald eagles, osprey, and peregrine falcons now are flourishing in many parts of the state and can be designated as threatened - a change from the more perilous designation of endangered, the Ohio Wildlife Council has decided.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/04/03/ddn040408raptors.html
New Zealand: Bumper Harvests get Endangered Parrots Laying
Only 86 remain in the wild and the birds only breed every three to five years. Hatchlings usually emerge at the start of a bumper season for the fruit they feed on. The eggs are incubated for 30 days, so the kakapo must lay them long before the fruit ripens. But what triggers them to mate and lay at the most opportune time has been a mystery. Now Andrew Fidler of the Cawthron Institute in Nelson, New Zealand, and his colleagues may have the answer. According to their hypothesis, the unripened fruit of the rimu - a type of conifer that kakapo feed on - contains chemicals that mimic the action of the birds' sex hormones.
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19826504.700-how-bumper-harvests-get-endangered-parrots-laying.html
US: Big Efforts Under Way for Small Woodcock
Woodcock populations in the eastern U.S., including Pennsylvania, have been declining at about 2.5 percent annually for more than 30 years. Numbers of the strange little bird with the long, earth-probing bill have fallen to the point that it's listed as a Partners In Flight priority species, a U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan "species of high concern," and a Pennsylvania Watch List species. However, the bird also is the focus of an interstate regional effort, and both national and Pennsylvania woodcock management plans are being developed.
http://www.pennlive.com/sports/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/1207349713105770.xml&coll=1
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| Extractive Industries
Canada: Battle Looming over Mine Site near Nahanni Park Reserve
Environmental groups say they will oppose a mining company's plans to open a zinc mine near the Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories. Canadian Zinc Corp. plans to make a formal application for a water licence that would bring the dormant Prairie Creek mine into operation. Officials with the Vancouver- and Toronto-based junior exploration company say they want to see the mine running within the next two or three years. But if a proposal to expand the nearby Nahanni park reserve goes ahead, Prairie Creek would be put within the protected area.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/03/31/nahanni-mine.html
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| Invasive Species
New Zealand: Trust gets Cash to Fight Wilding Pine Menace
A scourge of the Marlborough Sounds might have met its match. A trust determined to control the spread of wilding pines throughout the Sounds has received over $100,000 to fund an eradication campaign. The Marlborough Sounds Restoration Trust has $90,500 from the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board Environment and Heritage Fund and $13,000 from the Department of Conservation's (DOC) Biodiversity Condition Fund to help its cause.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4468415a3600.html
Solution to Wetland Weeds: Beetle-mania
So, when he saw purple loosestrife popping up at Nissitissit Wildlife Management Area in Pepperell last fall, he decided to do whatever it would take to help keep the invasive species from destroying the pristine preservation land -- even if that meant he has to touch lots of insects.
Hewitt, a school psychologist from Groton, is a newly pledged beetle grower. And many others from across the region are joining him.
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1315409/
China's Boom Sparks Mass Species Invasion
China opened its borders to more than it bargained for when it decided to venture into the world of international trade in the late 1970s. More than 400 species are known to have "invaded" the country - and the cost of hosting them is booming along with the economy. "One study estimated that the invasions could cost China $14.5 billion annually," says Richard Mack, of the Washington State University, Pullman, US, whose team has reviewed the problem of invasive species in China. "I would say that's a conservative estimate."
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13571-chinas-boom-sparks-mass-species-invasion.html
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| Urban Restoration
UK: Nature Reserves Plan to Protect against Development
Councillors look set to designate three wildlife spots in East Durham as local nature reserves. Easington District Council's executive will be recommended on Tuesday to make the designation for the council-owned sites at Gore Burn at Wheatley Hill, Crimdon Dene, and Rockhouse Dene at Seaham. The move will give the sites protection against development and will lead to the production of conservation plans.
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.2174304.0.nature_reserves_plan_to_protect_against_development.php
Plant and Care for One Million New Trees in New York City by 2017
New York City Mayor Bloomberg today issued a proclamation naming April 2008 as MillionTreesNYC Month in New York City. Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe presented the proclamation in Seward Park in Lower Manhattan. MillionTreesNYC Month, presented by BNP Paribas, coincides with the arrival of spring and seeks to raise public awareness for MillionTreesNYC, a public-private partnership between the Department of Parks & Recreation and Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project (NYRP) through which one million new trees will be planted and cared for throughout the five boroughs by 2017.
http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48745067_new-york-city-mayor-bloomberg-declares-april-2008-
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| Recreation & Tourism
Border Fence may Close Preserves, Cede Last Palm Forest to Mexico
The announcement this week that the federal government would waive a host of environmental protection laws for the border fence spelled almost certain closure to two nature preserves that support a growing ecotourism business in a struggling region. "We'll have to close," said Anne Brown, executive director and vice president of Audubon Texas. "Basically you've moved the border." The entire Sabal Palm Audubon Center and most of The Nature Conservancy's Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve would end up in the no-man's land between the fence and Mexico.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5671740.html
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| Funding Opportunities
Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant Closes May 1, 2008
Peninsula College and Western Washington University are pleased to announce up to 16 openings for our National Science Foundation-supported Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Port Angeles, Washington, home of Olympic National Park and the Elwha Ecosystem Restoration Project, the world's largest dam removal and fisheries restoration project. Applications are due May 1, 2008, for 16 positions that will get a stipend of $6,200 for the 08-09 school year, and students may either earn credit and/or work toward a degree with Peninsula College (www.pc.ctc.edu) or Western Washington University's Huxley College of the Environment on the Peninsula.
http://www.wwu.edu/huxley/departments/offcampus/index.shtml
2009 Multistate Conservation Grant Program Closes May 2, 2008
The Multistate Conservation Grant Program (MSCGP) is soliciting Letters of Intent (Due by midnight EDT Friday, May 2, 2008) for the 2009 cycle of this competitive grant program. For more application information and materials please visit the MSCGP website. The MSCGP is intended to address regional or national level priorities of state fish and wildlife agencies. It was established in 2000 by the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs Improvement Act, which amended the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act. Up to $6,000,000 is available each calendar year for one to three year projects (CFDA Number 15-628).
http://www.fishwildlife.org/multistate_grants.html
Maryland: Coastal Bays Offering Mini-grants Closes May 6, 2008
The Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP), working in partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Trust (CBT), is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting Community Stewardship Mini-Grant proposals. The goal of the Community Stewardship Mini-Grants Program is to increase public awareness and public involvement in restoring and protecting Maryland's Coastal Bays and its tributaries. This program is made possible through private contributions made to MCBP and CBT.
http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080408/OPI05/804080323/-1/OPI
Fulbright Scholar Program for US Faculty and Professionals Closes August 1, 2008
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering 109 lecturing, research or combined lecturing/research awards in environmental science during the 2009-2010 academic year. Awards range from two months to an academic year. Faculty and professionals in environmental science may apply for awards specifically in their field or for one of the many "All Discipline" awards open to any field. The application deadline for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants worldwide is August 1, 2008. U.S. citizenship is required. For other eligibility requirements, detailed award descriptions, and an application, visit our website at www.cies.org, or send a request for materials to apprequest@cies.iie.org.
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