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Get Involved / Community-Based Restoration
Native Prairie Planting Planned at Waterloo Recreation Area
The Department of Natural Resources will be holding two special volunteer stewardship workdays at Waterloo Recreation Area in May and early June to plant a demonstration prairie. Volunteers will plant native prairie grasses and wildflowers in a small prairie near the Gerald E. Eddy Discovery Center. "We will be planting many different species of grass and wildflowers, like big bluestem, broom sedge, bee balm and butterfly milkweed," said Laurel Malvitz, DNR natural resource steward. "We need a lot of volunteers to help."
http://outdoornewsdaily.com/index.php/archives/3675
Private Donations Enrich National Parks for 2016 Centennial
A new way of funding improvements has been introduced into the cash-starved National Park System. The private sector is now permitted to match federal funding of up to $100 million a year on specific projects benefiting the national parks between now and the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has announced the first national park improvement projects and programs that will get underway this spring funded by a total of $51.6 million in public and private contributions.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2008/2008-05-01-095.asp
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People in the News
Massachusetts: Town Receives Honors for Brook Restoration
Town officials were among those who were recognized Friday for their work and participation in the Massachusetts Riverways Program. Coastal America, a coalition of federal agencies, presented awards to local, state and federal partners for their cooperative work in restoring continuity in nearly 40 miles of the Westfield River and Yokum Brook, located in Becket.
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/localnews/ci_9157821
The Timberneck Biodiversity Restoration Project, Phase I
I'm excited to announce the inauguration of the Timberneck Creek Biodiversity and Habitat Restoration Project, Phase I. Although it has also been called, more prosaically, "cleaning up my yard", I prefer to think about it in a larger context as one small step in the goal of world domination of suburban backyards in the service of facilitating native wildlife (of all sizes), battling the spread of invasive species, and promoting truth, justice and the American way generally.
http://naturalpatriot.org/2008/04/30/the-timberneck-biodiversity-restoration-project-phase-i/
Rocklin's Wildlands Inc. Buys Acer Environmental
Wildlands Inc., a Rocklin-based environmental mitigation and banking firm, said Monday it has acquired Acer Environmental Inc., which has offices in the southeastern United States. Financial terms were not disclosed. "Acer's talented mitigation banking and ecological restoration team will provide a perfect fit for expanding our services in the Southeast and working toward our nationwide conservation and restoration goals," said Steve Morgan, chairman and chief executive of Wildlands.
http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/915238.html
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| New Books & Articles
Dams, Dam Removal, and River Restoration
This article presents the results of a hedonic property value analysis for multiple hydropower sites along the Kennebec River in Maine, including the former site of the Edwards Dam in Augusta, Maine. The effect of the removal of the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine is examined through consumer's marginal willingness to pay to be close to or distant from the dam site. Data from both before and after the dam was removed are used to estimate changes in marginal prices. A similar data set is also used to look at the effects of the remaining upstream dams on property values.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1372022/dams_dam_removal_and_river_restoration/
New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse
The quality of pollen a plant produces is closely tied to its sexual habits, ecologists have discovered. As well as helping explain the evolution of such intimate relationships between plants and pollinators, the study -- one of the first of its kind and published online in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology -- also helps explain the recent dramatic decline in certain bumblebee species found in the shrinking areas of species-rich chalk grasslands and hay meadows across Northern Europe.
http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/35876
Climate Change Warms Lake Baikal, World's Largest Lake
The rising temperature of the world's largest lake - Lake Baikal in Siberia - shows that this icy region of Russia is changing due to global warming, Russian and American scientists have discovered. This lake was expected to be among those most resistant to climate change, due to its huge volume and unique water circulation, but long-term data collection reveals that warming is taking place. In their paper, the scientists detail the effects of climate change on Lake Baikal - from warming of its vast waters to reorganization of its microscopic food web - drawing on 60 years of research.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2008/2008-05-02-02.asp
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
"Gourmand's Paradise": The Once and Future Willamette Valley?
In Environment and Experience, Peter Boag documents how native practices expanded the rich habitat ecologists call "edges" in the central Willamette Valley, where their controlled burning resulted in innumerable ponds, marshes and wetlands that provided habitat for migrating bird flocks. Kalapuya practices encouraged the abundance of tar weed seeds, acorn, and the flourishing of roots crops such as camas. Indeed, as did the women of to the north and south of them, Kalapuya women dug root crops with a method that both preserved the prairies and spread the roots as they harvested them. By the time the pioneers came to the Willamette Valley, camas was so abundant that pioneers termed the places it grew, "camas lakes", since its prolific blooms looked like water shimmering in the sun.
http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/gourmands-paradise-the-once-and-future-willamette-valley/
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| Agro-Ecology
Audio: What's a Farm Without Fallow Fields?
Amidst rising food prices, farmers are using more of their land. Fallow fields help protect wildlife habitats and keep soil healthy, according to the National Wildlife Federation's Julie Sibbing. Will there be consequences to this new approach?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90222485&ft=1&f=1025
A 10,000 Year Misunderstanding
My recommendation for the necessary decrease of the global human footprint includes allowing the functional integrity of terrestrial (and aquatic) communities to begin to re-establish by ceasing to stage-manage ecosystems. A reliance on self-organizing/self managing systems, that evolution has already created, would feed a very small number of humans sustainably. This sustainability would be predicated on the ability of this small population to regulate their exploitation/harvesting activities to fall within the (now better understood) capacity of their supporting ecosystems to maintain critical breeding populations, species and structural diversity, to replace soil lost by erosion and to replace soluble plant nutrients lost by harvest export or leaching.
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/opinions/20080105-17256.html
Finding the Real Potential of No-Till Farming for Sequestering Carbon
No-tillage farming offers plenty of benefits regarding soil and environmental health, but depending on the soil depth and soil type, carbon sequestration might not be one of them. The potential of no-tillage (NT) soils for increasing the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool must be critically and objectively assessed. Most of the previous studies about SOC accrual in NT soils have primarily focused on the surface layer (<20-cm soil depth), and not for the whole soil profile. The lack of adequate data on the SOC profile is a hindrance to conclusively ascertain the effects of NT farming on SOC sequestration and off-setting CO2 emissions.
https://www.soils.org/press/releases/2008/0505/002/
Israel's Big Green Future: Stretching Resources, Saving Habitat and Mending Fences
On the Bergman campus of Ben-Gurion University (BGU), located in the city of Beer-Sheva on the northern edge of Israel's Negev Desert, researchers are doing what they can to maximize Israel's limited natural resources. Here, students in Zeev Weisman's lab are working with a variety of discarded seed crops like jatropha and castor for use in biofuel development projects. They're also working with the waste products of the olive oil industry. Ac-cording to student Rebecca Willson, the industry discards about two and a half metric tons of inedible oil each year. Although Weisman and his colleagues don't see biofuels as the long-term solution to climate change, they say they're an improvement over fossil fuels in the wait for fuel-cell technologies to mature.
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4174
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| Biodiversity & Climate Change
Mitigating Climate Change: Capitalist Sham
Those that have been instrumental in building the institutional edifice to mitigate climate change and facilitate greenhouse gas emissions reductions come in for a severe and thorough verbal lashing in Down to Earth, a publication put out by New Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment. As climate change, environmental degradation and economic development have gained currency the resulting international processes and organizational structures have been hijacked by the international political, media and corporate jet set, CSE claims. Worse, the resulting measures taken to date are not only ineffectual but serve only to further enrich those that are primarily responsible for these problems in the first place, i.e. the captains of multinational business, industry, political leaders and the media.
http://www.enn.com/business/article/35577
UK: Wind Farm will Destroy Nature's Carbon Sink
Ten years ago the East Sutherland communities were confronted with the Helmsdale wind farm applications, which were eventually turned down after a local referendum and a long, expensive public enquiry. In 2003 they were presented with another development, this time by Scottish and Southern Energy. The Gordonbush proposal is in every respect far, far worse than the three developments rejected by the Scottish Executive in 1998. The turbines at Gordonbush are more numerous, far higher, more damaging to wildlife and peat, and are more visible on the Strath Kildonan and Glen Loth.
http://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/3950/Wind_farm_will_destroy_nature's_'carbon_sink'.html
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Costa Rica: Restoration Of A Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem Successful On Small-scale
Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rain forests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Sciences (BTI) on the Cornell campus are attempting what many thought was impossible -- restoring a tropical rain forest ecosystem. When the researchers planted worn-out cattle pastures in Costa Rica with a sampling of local trees in the early 1990s, native species of plants began to move in and flourish, raising the hope that destroyed rain forests could one day be replaced.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428133928.htm#
Borneo: Rainforest Seeds Revive Lost Paradise
Six years ago the area around Samboja in Borneo was like much of the world's tropical rainforest: denuded. The trees had been cut for timber, the land burnt, and in place of what should be some of the richest biodiversity on the planet were thousands of acres of grass.
But from this ruined landscape a fresh forest has been grown, teeming with insects, birds and animals, and cooled by the return of moist clouds and rain. It is a feat that has been hailed by scientists and offers hope for disappearing and ruined rainforests around the world. The secret was to use more than 1,300 species of local tree and a fertiliser made with cow urine, says Dr Willie Smits, the Indonesian forestry expert who led the replanting. 'The place became the scene of an ecological miracle, a fairytale come true,' says Smits, who has written a book about the project.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/04/conservation.wildlife
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| Wetland Restoration
New Zealand: Awarua Wetlands Recognised for Size and Diversity
Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick today congratulated Southland's local communities for their commitment to maintaining the internationally recognised Awarua wetland. Steve Chadwick joined private landowners, local and central government agencies, runanga and community groups to officially celebrate the newly renamed Awarua Wetlands.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00052.htm
UK: Uniting to Protect Landscape
The Ray Valley Restoration Project will secure the future of wildlife and landscape conservation across the River Ray landscape. It will create new wetland wildlife habitats, improve river water quality and increase community involvement. Philippa Lyons, BBOWT's Chief Executive, said: "This is an exciting moment for the Trust. This agreement will bring great opportunities to maintain and improve this landscape, ensuring the area is rich in wildlife and benefits people too."
http://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/bicester-news/Uniting-to-protect-landscape.4034169.jp
Washington: Artificial Wetlands Thrive as Result of Repairs after Damage in 2001
The 2001 Nisqually Earthquake was a blessing in disguise when it comes to the artificial wetlands near the southwest corner of Capitol Lake. Completed in 1999, the 17 acres of constructed wetlands were poorly engineered, lacked native plants and relied on deficient soils, said Perry Lund, a state Department of Ecology shoreline specialist who offered a noon-hour walking tour of the area near the Capitol Lake Interpretive Center on Wednesday. "It was a really crummy job of building wetlands," Lund told the 20 people who took the short hike and received a cursory class in native plant identification.
http://www.theolympian.com/environment/story/435627.html
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River & Watershed Restoration
Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for River Restoration Services
American Rivers seeks qualified vendors to provide services on projects within the eastern U.S. that restore rivers and streams. Our primary interest is in ecosystem-based riverine restoration, mainly using dam removal as a restoration tool. We may also pursue river and floodplain restoration through bypass channel fishways, rock ramp fishways, culvert replacement/retrofits, stream daylighting, natural channel design or other innovative methods to restore the ecological integrity and dynamic functions of rivers and enhance movement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic life.
http://blog.americanrivers.org/wordpress/index.php/2008/04/30/request-for-qualifications-rfq-for-river-restoration-services/
Oregon: Project to Defeat Canary Grass Continues
Reed canary grass isn't on Gresham's list of 10 most invasive plants. Nevertheless, the long-stemmed grass that farmers everywhere once planted for livestock forage is smothering Gresham's wetlands, particularly 38 acres at Fairview Creek headwaters. "Farmers loved canary grass because they could seed it in wet areas and it soaked up mud, and cattle could eat it," said Gresham's Watershed Restoration Coordinator Laura Guderyahn. "And it was modified in the lab to make it more resilient."
http://www.theoutlookonline.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=120977662332654200
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| Grassland Restoration
UK: Deal to Restore Elveden Heathland
A "jewel" in the region's landscape has been secured for future generations with the signing up of a deal that will help complete the restoration of a vast swathe of Brecks heathland. Officials from the Elveden Estate, near Thetford, and Natural England gathered at an area off the A11 today to mark the launch of the largest environmental agreement in the East of England.
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED06%20May%202008%2014%3A23%3A18%3A400
US: Plan Envisions Repopulation of Bison
U.S. scientists, conservationists and ranchers say they are advocating restoration measures designed to repopulate large areas with bison. The research, led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and similar organizations, contemplates bison roaming large tracts of land from Alaska to Mexico during the next 100 years. The plan hinges on a series of conservation and restoration measures to provide large, unfettered landscapes such as grasslands and prairies in the southwestern U.S., Arctic lowland taiga in Alaska and large swaths of mountain forests and grasslands across Canada and the United States. Even parts of the Mexican desert might also support herds that once lived there, officials said.
http://www.goodnewsdaily.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8403
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| Desertification & Arid Land Restoration
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| Lake Restoration
Texas: Hydrilla a Problem of the Past
Normally, when a plant species is nearly eradicated from an ecosystem it is a cause for grave concern. But you won't find too many Lake Jacksonville residents lamenting the recent demise of the Hydrilla verticillata. The most recent survey by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, conducted April 9, reported the presence of no unwanted hydrilla plants in the lake.
http://www.jacksonvilleprogress.com/local/local_story_122190854.html
Canada: Forty-One Groups Say Proposed Lake Simcoe Protection Act Must Protect Land Too
Campaign Lake Simcoe posts its response to the province's "Protecting Lake Simcoe" discussion paper on the Environmental Bill of Rights registry today, marking the end of the public comment period on the province's discussion paper. Campaign Lake Simcoe's "What it Takes to Save Lake Simcoe: A Citizen Response" is endorsed by 41 groups around the lake, making "What it Takes..." the definitive voice of concerned citizens.Supportive groups range in size and reach from the Federation of Ontario Cottagers to Kids for Turtles, but they all share a passion for saving the lake.
http://www.environmentaldefence.ca/pressroom/viewnews.php?id=397
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| Coastal & Marine Restoration
Massachusetts: Marsh Restorations Undo Years of Harm
When it is dedicated June 13, the $1.5 million Bridge Street bridge project in East Dennis will officially become the largest saltwater marsh restoration in Massachusetts, with 65 acres of reclaimed marsh. But that is really just the beginning. Fourteen more salt marsh projects are already in the works, including the granddaddy of them all, the largest such project on the East Coast: the restoration of an estimated 1,000 acres of the Herring River marsh in Wellfleet, which cost $12 million to $15 million. In Massachusetts, especially on Cape Cod, it is the renaissance of salt marsh restoration.
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080505/NEWS/805050322
Louisiana: Feds Provide $5.3M for Plaquemines Parish Wetlands Restoration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a more than $5.3 million grant for a Plaquemines Parish wetlands restoration project. The grant, part of the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act, is for the Pass Chaland to Grand Bayou Pass Barrier Shoreline Restoration Project.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1370227/feds_provide_53m_for_plaquemines_parish_wetlands_restoration/
Save the Coral Triangle
The Global Environment Facility (GEF), an independent grantmaking institution focused on helping developing countries undertake sustainability projects, last week announced that it is committing some $63 million toward preserving biodiversity in Asia's so-called Coral Triangle. The area straddles the waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and East Timor. Known as the "Amazon of the seas," the Coral Triangle is believed to have the most marine biodiversity of any part of the world's oceans, and is threatened by both overfishing and global warming.
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4207
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Wildlife Restoration
Georgia: Grants Helps Restore Migratory Bird Habitat At Panola Mountain
Visitors to Panola Mountain State Park may soon see one of nature's grand spectacles as migratory birds flock to restored grassland and wetland habitats at the park just southeast of Atlanta. A grant from the Power of Flight program is helping make this comeback possible.
The restoration project being done by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is focused on improving habitats for groups of birds that lack suitable habitat in the region. Panola Mountain State Park, at 1,500 acres, may be the last sanctuary in metro Atlanta for grassland birds such as the redheaded woodpecker, sedge wren and eastern meadowlark.
http://outdoornewsdaily.com/index.php/archives/3718
Oregon: Restore Wolf Protections Conservation Groups Ask Court to Halt Killing
Environmental and animal rights groups filed a lawsuit Monday seeking a reversal of the federal government's premature decision to drop protections for gray wolves in northern Rocky Mountain states, a move that has needlessly put at risk the prospects for the predator's revival in Oregon. Wolves once were bountiful throughout the West, where an estimated 350,000 preyed on bison, elk, deer and other animals before the arrival of white settlers. As wild game became more scarce, wolves turned their predatory gaze to livestock, earning the deadly enmity of ranchers and farmers.
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=97330&sid=5&fid=2
Black Grouse Numbers Rising in Northern England
Conservationists are stepping up a rescue mission for the rare and spectacular black grouse.
The once common species has been under threat from loss of habitat and predators but a restoration drive in their stronghold in the north Pennines is being widened to include remote parts of north-west Northumberland and the Yorkshire Dales. The recovery project has already increased the number of males in the north Pennines from 773 in 1998 to 1029 in 2006. Farmers, grouse moor managers and gamekeepers are being praised for the way they have improved and protected habitats.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/30/conservation.wildlife
California: $1 Million Grant Becomes $1.8 Million for Habitat in the Valley
California Waterfowl received $1 million in grant funds to improve 4,957 acres of wetlands in the North Sacramento River Valley. Eight federal and state listed species will benefit from the work, as will 29 listed waterfowl species. In total $1.8 million will be used to improve habitat management capabilities and increase wildlife habitat through this two-year grant. This grant will allow California Waterfowl to continue their restoration efforts that have been improving conditions in the north valley for wildlife and wildlife enthusiasts for the last four years.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080501033230tsop.np/newsblaze/NEWSWIRE/NewsBlaze-Wire.html
Wildlife Groups Call for End to Mexican Wolf Removal Policy
Two wildlife conservation groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday to keep federal agencies from aggressively removing endangered Mexican gray wolves that have attacked livestock more than twice from a recovery program in Arizona and New Mexico. WildEarth Guardians and The Rewilding Institute are asking the U.S. District Court to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's removal policy, known as "Standard Operating Procedure 13."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gk8VewdQrnQkR5hVHwFN4pNwkUTwD90CILF03
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| Extractive Industries
Canada: Wildlands League Calls for Rules for Development to Protect Ecological Sensitive Ecosystems
Today CPAWS Wildlands League is calling on the province to halt mineral exploration in the Boreal Forest so that the government can design and implement rules for development. The group issued the statement after learning about new staking being conducted by the same mineral exploration company that sued Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) for $10 billion.
http://www.wildlandsleague.org/display.aspx?pid=0&cid=11
Canada: Oil Sands Duck Deaths Tragic, Imperial CEO Says
The death of about 500 ducks that landed in a pond of oily, toxic sludge operated by Canada's biggest oil sands producer was tragic, the chief executive of Imperial Oil Ltd said Thursday.
Imperial has a 25 percent stake in oil sand producer Syncrude Canada Ltd, owner of the tailings pond in northern Alberta, where the ducks died earlier this week because a warning system meant to keep them off wasn't operating.
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48195/story.htm
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| Invasive Species
Alien Species Plague the Land That Time Forgot
Juicy, wild-growing blackberries, guava and passion fruit plants may be savoured by humans and animals alike, but in this particular part of the world -- sometimes called the Land That Time Forgot for its largely pristine biodiversity -- they are three problematic invasive species. "Blackberries choke plants and guava and passion fruit plants are both forms of vines, which both choke off all of the plants growing around them and also reduce sunlight," explained Ramiro Tomala, an Ecuadorian-born naturalist guide for the Galapagos National Park.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42119
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| Urban Restoration
Canada: PowerHouse Foreshore Restoration Project Goes Ahead
The BC Hydro Bridge Coastal Fish and Wildlife Restoration Program (BCRP) have given the go ahead for the Powerhouse Foreshore Restoration Project to start the first year of work on the ground. The BCRP have provided $150,000.00 towards work on the site. Additional funding has been provided by the District of Lillooet, BC Conservation Assistance Fund and from BC Nature. Work begins at the end of the month.
http://www.lillooetnews.net/madison/WQuestion.nsf/0/B843EFBBB04291198825743A0079419B?OpenDocument
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| Recreation & Tourism
California: Restoration Under Way at Mori Point in Pacifica
But a small army of volunteers, some 1,400 donating more than 40,000 hours, are helping to heal the land, which in turn is providing crucial new habitat for three imperiled species. Volunteers have helped build four ponds to create frog-breeding and snake-foraging habitat. They pulled out invasive plants and replaced them with more than 9,000 native plants, and have assisted the "decommissioning" of old and excess trails that reduce habitat for animals and plants. Last year, along the main trail into the park, they also rerouted a natural seep to keep it off the trail, and widened a section of it to create a tiny, permanent reservoir the size of a large puddle. The small waterhole is now home to dozens of Pacifica chorus frog guppies.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9136213?nclick_check=1
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| Funding Opportunities
Minnesota: Shoreland Restoration Funding Available
A perfectly manicured lawn may be appealing curbside, but on the water's edge it's devastating.
Osakis lakeshore owners may be eligible for a 75 percent project grant for shoreland restoration projects. The Sauk River Watershed District (SRWD) received a grant from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to help fund these projects.
http://www.theosakisreview.com/articles/index.cfm?id=1416§ion=News&freebie_check&CFID=32747008&CFTOKEN=96561653&jsessionid=883082bd3f6267771c2f
Washington: Grants Available for Surface Water Education, Restoration Projects Closes May 16, 2008
Plan a field trip, study a creek, plant some native species or even put on a puppet show! The possibilities are endless. Make a Splash environmental grants of up to $2,500 are available from City of Tacoma Environmental Services to any school, group or individual considering a project to help protect and restore surface water resources within the Tacoma city limits. The $50,000 grant program is funded by the City's surface water utility rates and is currently in its sixth year. Application materials for 2008 must be postmarked by May 16, 2008. For more information or to download an application, go to http://www.cityoftacoma.org/makeasplash or call (253) 591-5588.
Fellowships Available in Estuarine Science Closes June 6, 2008
CALFED Science Program, California Sea Grant College Program is offering stipends of up to $45,000/yr. for Postdocs and $25,000/yr. for Graduate Fellows for up to 2 years, plus eligible expenses.
http://www.csgc.ucsd.edu/EDUCATION/CALFED/CALFEDIndx.html
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.
Fulbright Awards in Agriculture or Fisheries
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program for academic year 2009-10 offers various awards for American academics and professionals in the fields of agricultural economy. The Philippines ( http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2009/award/Agr9161.htm)offersa six-months Lecturing/Research combination grant to help the development of young scholars and practitioners as well as to consult the country's Department of Agriculture. Kazakhstan ( http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2009/award/Env9494.htm ) offers awards for 4 to 10 months in environmental sciences or environmental law to lecture or lecturing/research combination. Turkmenistan ( http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2009/award/All9513.htm ) seeks for applicants in agricultural studies and water resources management; and so does Uzbekistan ( http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2009/award/All9515.htm ) Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Program Officer Mamiko Hada (mhada@cies.iie.org) with most up-to-date CV.
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