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Get Involved / Community-Based Restoration
Attention SER Members
Australasia Top 25 Restoration Projects Now Online
The Society for Restoration International and the Ecological Management and Restoration journal conducted an 18-month search for the top projects and an expert panel, including the journal's editor, selected the winners. The top 25 projects have been posted on a website that enables restoration scientists and managers to exchange information about their work.
http://www.globalrestorationnetwork.org/countries/australianew-zealand/
Setbacks and Surprises: Contributions Invited
The journal Restoration Ecology has initiated a new category of paper: "Setbacks and Surprises." This section aims to provide the opportunity to report the results of restoration projects that did not go as planned, projects that failed to meet the original goals or did not meet the goals without considerable changes to the original plans. If you have any queries contact the Managing Editor, Dr Susan Yates (restoration.ecology@uwa.edu.au).
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Get Involved/Community-based Restoration
Minnesota: Volunteers in Coon Rapids will Plant Thousands of Trees
Tim Sevcik can't see the forest through the trees yet. But that will change Sunday when volunteers are expected to plant 8,500 trees at Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park in five hours. These aren't tiny seedlings, explained Sevcik, natural resource specialist for Anoka County Parks. Many are two-year-old trees that got their start in the state forest nursery. But 8,500 in five hours? "Hopefully, we'll get 300 volunteers," he said. "The more the merrier."
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/43695737.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DU2EPaL_V_9E7ODiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
Florida: Volunteers Needed for May 2 Reef Restoration
To create the new oyster reefs, volunteers will place 900 mesh bags of oyster shells in the water at a site just south of the Evans-Crary Bridge in the St. Lucie. Working in partnership with Florida Sea Grant and St. Lucie County, the shell has been recycled from area restaurants. Numerous volunteers have already assisted in bagging the shell in preparation for reef construction.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/apr/28/voluntters-needed-may-2-reef-restoration/
Washington: Public Gets Rare Chance to See Protected Prairie
Known collectively as the Black River Preserve, the more than 5,500 acres of property is off limits to new homes, but serves as home to uncommon prairie flowers, butterflies, birds and endangered salmon, frogs, elk, deer and the occasional black bear. The prairies, oak woodlands and freshwater wetlands that flank the Black River are not well known and, in many cases, off limits or inaccessible to the public. But that changes on May 9 when the Friends of Puget Prairies will have the 14th annual Prairie Appreciation Day at Thurston County's 1,000-acre Glacial Heritage Nature Preserve, the single largest prairie preserve in the county.
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/832944.html
Fifth-graders to Show Mountain Restoration Site
Students from Manzanita School in Newbury Park will be in the Santa Monica Mountains Saturday to show people their restoration project. The school partnered with the National Park Service to start Students Helping Restore Unique Biomes, or SHRUBs, about three years ago. Fifth-graders care for a restoration site in the mountains, collecting and raising seedlings before planting them in the hillside.
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/apr/24/fifth-graders-to-show-mountain-restoration-site/
Wisconsin: Central High Students begin Prairie Restoration Project
The idea comes from giving students an environmental science lesson on prairie restoration and wildlife found in prairies. Students collected water samples and took them back to UW-L for testing. This hands on learning gives kids an opportunity to apply what they've learned from textbooks. "The land was donated to the township. I knew it would be a nice project for kids out here to get a chance doing some research," says Gregg Erickson, professor at Central High School.
http://www.midwestagnet.com/Global/story.asp?S=10245156&nav=menu1585_4
California: Hands-on Education at Ormond Beach
Some local children are getting their daily science lessons at the beach this month. The students, who come from 11 area schools, are restoring native plants and monitoring water quality at the wetlands near Ormond Beach in Oxnard. Then they're going over to the beach to identify birds and pick up trash. Zachary Arthur, 14, enjoys this way of learning science. "I like more hands-on experiments," said Zachary, an eighth-grader at E. O. Green School in Oxnard. "It helps me understand better."
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/apr/21/nxxFCbeach22/
Forests Greener with Volunteerism
Watershed conservation and restoration efforts exemplify the importance of healthy forest headwaters to the reliability of a steady supply of clean water. In 2008, volunteers put in more than 220,000 hours on natural resources projects valued at $2.7 million in Rocky Mountain national forests and grasslands. Numerous volunteers donate their time, muscle and money to restore our local watersheds, including the Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, who completed a 2-1/2-day watershed improvement project on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District in September 2008.
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090424/OPINION04/904240317
Conferences & Workshops
Forestry & Fire Ecology Workshop
Join us at Polcum Springs for an innovative forestry workshop with noted permaculture instructor, Dennis Martinez. Forestry and Fire Ecology: Indian Traditional Landcare Practices and Modern Community-Based Biocultural Restoration on May 9 and 10, 2009 at Polcum Springs, near Laytonville, CA. Registration Deadline is April 30.
http://thegreenhorns.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/forestry-fire-ecology-workshop/
Engineering for Ecosystem Restoration: University at Buffalo Summer Workshop Series 2009
The 2009 summer program will consist of three week-long workshops that emphasize the science and practice of ecosystem restoration. Taught by leading experts and practitioners in the fields of ecosystem restoration, riverine and Great Lakes ecology, fluvial geomorphology, and environmental modeling, the three one-week long courses provide training in theoretical and applied concepts of ecosystem restoration, reinforced through intensive field activities (site visits, sampling techniques) at nationally-recognized stream restoration projects in western New York.
http://www.erie.buffalo.edu/trainingSummerCourse2009.php
The 13th World Lake Conference by ILEC
China has won the right to host the 13th World Lake Conference with support from the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The conference will be held in Wuhan ( Hubei, China) under the aegis of the International Lake Environment committee Foundation ( Japan) from November 1 to November 5, 2009. The central theme of the conference this year is "Lake Ecosystem Restoration: Global Challenges and the Chinese Initiative".
http://www.wlc2009-ilec.org/html/En/ClassNaviEn/931D.html
For a complete listing of conferences related to ecological restoration, please visit:
http://www.globalrestorationnetwork.org/conferences/ |
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People in the News
First Wildland Restoration Graduates Head Out
Cara Nelson, a professor of restoration ecology, is largely responsible for establishing UM's wildland restoration program. She said two key factors that spurred the founding of the program were "tremendous student demand" and changing objectives in the field of natural resource management toward "more fully-encompassing ecosystem goals" was the other. "Within the field of natural resource conservation, restoration is becoming the biggest activity," Nelson said.
http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/outdoors/outdoors_article/first_wildland_restoration_graduates_head_out/3803
Interview with Andrew Light
After taking several years to finish a co-authored book, Environmental Values (Routledge 2008), I'm back to work on a long overdue book on ethical and historical issues in restoration ecology.
As I'm now trying to incorporate new work which is emerging on how climate change is complicating, even exasperating, attempts to do restorations, this will take a bit more time to finish.
http://in-english.blogsthema.marseille-provence2013.fr/archives/14
Honor Lone Star Land Stewards: Suzanne Tuttle, Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge
Since the 1970s when active land management practices were implemented on the FWNCR, areas that were once bare ground have become productive. Despite its proximity to a major urban setting, the FWNCR has maintained and enhanced its natural and cultural resources. Prescribed fire is used when and where appropriate, a bison herd is maintained on the property through rotational grazing, and brush control is conducted to control mesquite and sumac. In addition to prairie restoration efforts that includes intensive control of invasive plant species, the FWNCR is involved in a gravel pit reclamation effort. The area has become a field research site for several universities and resource agencies, as well as a training ground for area Master Naturalists. With an extensive hiking trail system, the site provides outdoor recreation opportunities for the public. Its cultural treasures include Civilian Conservation Corps sites from the 1930s and an archaeological find where thousands of artifacts have been recovered.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20090424a
David Ehrenfeld on Ecological Restoration
Environmental restoration is vitally necessary, and it deserves a far greater commitment of resources and effort than it is getting. But we have to guard against unrealistic assumptions about what it is possible for a restoration to do. In any particular restoration, everyone should decide at the outset what an acceptable end result will be - not necessarily a carbon copy of what was once there. Restoring processes, such as proper water flow in the Everglades, is likely to be easier and faster to achieve than restoration of the original species composition and ecosystem structure. Given enough time, an acceptable plant and animal community will follow the repair of ecosystem processes, but there is a good chance that it will not be exactly like the original one. Appreciate it for what it is.
http://blog.oup.com/2009/04/earth-day/
A New Foundation for Native Plants
On private land demarcated by a metal fence lined with robust wildflowers, Paul Bouscal and Doug Allshouse removed weeds inside a concrete foundation that will become a native plant nursery. In two months, the Mission Blue Nursery will be the backbone of the stewardship program for habitat restoration on San Bruno Mountain. "It's biodiversity at our doorstep," said Mike Pacelli, a liaison between Brisbane and Universal Paragon Corp.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_12233789 |
| New Books & Articles
Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
In 1874, when most of the West was still held in common, a simple invention -- barbed wire -- pushed the region toward a long-held national ideal: privatization. With amazing swiftness, ranchers began to enclose their lands and herds; and in just a few decades, millions of acres of formerly open range were fenced in. But as journalist Richard Manning explains in Rewilding the West, the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression forced Western ranchers to sell that privatized land back to the government. The government then gave the ranchers grazing leases on the land, a system still in place today. Manning argues that this type of cattle grazing "posed the largest threat to the environment of the grassland West."
http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.7/renewing-a-battered-land
ISU Researchers Publish Guide on Conservation
A team of Iowa State University researchers are making the economic and environmental case for deploying a portfolio of conservation practices in a new publication. The goal of the group, supported by the Ecology Initiative at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, is to encourage the strategic use of trees, prairies and other perennials in a way that results in multiple environmental benefits, while causing a small change in overall agricultural production. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090426/BUSINESS01/90425034/1030/BUSINESS01 |
| Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
US: $750 Million for 750 National Parks Restoration Projects
The National Park Service will invest $750 million in 750 restoration and protection projects at parks across the country to create jobs and preserve American history and heritage for future generations, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2009/2009-04-22-091.asp |
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Video: The Green Gold Rush
This documentary is part of a project on traditional ecological knowledge undertaken by the Swiss NGO GVOM (Group of Volunteers Oversees) and the Vicepresidency of the Republic of Bolivia. The objective of the project is to stimulate the debate about the protection and valorization of traditional knowledge and biological resources in Bolivia.
http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/resource-video-documentary-bioprospecting-indigenous-traditional-ecological-knowledge-in-bolivia/
Indigenous Wisdom Against Climate Change
Native peoples, with their ancestral links to the land, have learned some useful lessons over the millennia about how to fight and adapt to climate change. While industrialized countries like Canada continue to emit ever-higher levels of greenhouse-effect gases, indigenous peoples around the world are working to survive and adapt to an increasingly dangerous climate. Over millennia, indigenous peoples have developed a large arsenal of practices that are of potential benefit today for coping with climate change, including some holistic and refreshingly practical ideas.
http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=3056 |
| Agro-Ecology
Oregon: Polluter Fines Help Pay For Environment Restoration Grants
Oregon's governor teamed up with the U.S. Attorney's office Thursday to award seven grants worth nearly $300,000. The money comes from fines paid by industrial polluters after federal prosecution. Anna Richter Taylor is a spokeswoman for Governor Kulongoski. She says one grant of almost $50,000 went to Salmon Safe Incorporated for its efforts to teach Willamette Valley wine growers about ecological sustainability. Anna Richter Taylor: "So essentially sustainable farming practices to protect water quality, native biodiversity, and more sustainable vineyard practices."
http://news.opb.org/article/4839-polluter-fines-help-pay-environment-restoration-grants/
Agroecological Farming Key To Africa's Future
A recent report by Union of Concerned Scientists titled "Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops," showed that despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase U.S. crop yields while only driving up costs for farmers. In comparison, traditional breeding continues to deliver better results. The scientific research and renewed focus on the "right to food" exposes why we must move away from "Green Revolution" monoculture practices and instead embrace ecologically sound practices, more equitable trade rules and local food distribution systems to empower family farmers. Now the governments of the world and the Gates Foundation need to finally get the message as well.
http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=5612
UK: Coastal Grazing Marshes to Get £900,000 Grant
The Lincolnshire Coastal Grazing Marshes scheme, led by Lincolnshire County Council, will conserve the remaining fragments of coastal grazing marsh, and help develop the sustainability of pastoral farming. Practical and financial support will be available for local farmers in the conservation and management of grassland and livestock. There will also be opportunities for people to learn about the history, traditions and wildlife of this part of Lincolnshire, to get involved with creative projects, and experience a series of nature and heritage trails to explore the area.
http://www.louthleader.co.uk/news/Coastal-Grazing-Marshes-to-get.5201191.jp
UK: Orchards May Vanish by the End of the Century
Small traditional orchards could vanish from the British landscape by the end of the century unless action is taken to save them, environmental experts and campaigners warned yesterday.
Natural England and the National Trust claimed 60% of England's orchards had disappeared since the 1950s as they launched a £500,000 project aimed at halting the decline. The crisis has been even worse in some areas, such as Devon, which has lost almost 90% of its orchards.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/24/traditional-orchards-biodiversity |
| Biodiversity & Climate Change
Indigenous People Share Climate Adaptation Strategies
Indigenous people from around the world gathered this week to discuss the effects of climate change on their lands - the first time they have convened in such numbers on the topic. The Andean region has suffered an increase in respiratory illness, a decrease in Alpaca farming and a shortened growing season, which may eventually be cut in half. In Kenya the Samburu people are losing their livestock to severe, extended droughts. And the Dayak in Borneo have documented climate variations including rising water levels and the loss of traditional medicinal plants.
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/indigenous-people-share-climate-adaptation-strateg.html
Australia: Creatures' Rush to Extinction in the Top End
During recent decades, scientists have been recording a vast decline in the original mammal fauna of north Australia. In the past five years, for most species, that decline has become a death spiral. The picture is consistent across the north: in parks and in Aboriginal reserves, in pastoral country, in pristine rangelands, in coastal swamps. The pattern has been too plain to miss and many of the likelier causes have been identified, but the dizzying disappearance of animals from the landscape seems like something new. It is Australia's most profound ecological crisis; it is little known in the nation at large and still quite imperfectly understood.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25380215-5006790,00.html
Interview: James Lovelock on How to Save Gaia
James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia theory: the idea that the planet acts like a single organism. His latest book is The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. In an interview with Nature, he defends his forthcoming trip into space, and suggests that the technology for reversing climate change may be within our grasp.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2009/apr/22/james-lovelock-gaia-space-biochar
100 Questions To Conserve Global Biodiversity
Conservation experts from 24 world-leading organisations including the WWF, Conservation International and Birdlife International have identified one hundred key scientific questions that, if answered, would help conserve global biodiversity. Scientists say if the questions are answered swiftly, it could stem massive biodiversity loss.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422191722.htm |
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Madagascar: A New Project Brings Hope
Decades of deforestation have left eastern Madagascar with only 8.5 percent of its original forest and isolated the Analamazaotra Special Reserve, which is the most visited protected area in Madagascar. The ongoing project, employing about 200 local people, involves connecting three forest fragments. The National Association for Environmental Action (ANAE), one of CI's partners, coordinates the field activities of this unique project, which involves many stakeholders from government officials to local farmers.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9183672/3466363843/
US: Volunteers Keep Vigil over Forests
Its goal is to raise $700,000 for 18 local projects designed to improve recreation opportunities and wildlife habitat in the areas near both waterways. Vasse is working to match the projects with funds raised from private foundations and companies - trying to pair an outdoor outfitter that awards wildlife habitat grants with a restoration project in the Metolius River Basin, for example. "We wanted to be proactive and really restore landscapes and restore people's connection to the lands," she said.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090428/NEWS0107/904280401/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Philippines: 1 Million Hectares of Restored Forests by 2020
Welcome to our exhibit, "ROAD TO 2020: Seedlings of Change," one of the series of activities of this day-long Earth Day celebration graciously hosted by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. ROAD to 2020 (or Rain-forestation Organizations and Advocates to 2020) is Haribon's major advocacy, which seeks to restore one million hectares of forest by 2020. Since its launch in 2005, Haribon has strived to engage all sectors in changing the forest landscape of the country. Haribon promotes rainforestation, or the planting of native species to restore our forests, their bio-diversity and their important ecological functions upon which our survival depends.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2009/april/23/yehey/opinion/20090423opi3.html |
| Wetland Restoration
DR Congo Finalizes Designation of World's Largest Wetland
The Democratic Republic of Congo has finalized designation of a vast expanse of equatorial rainforest as the world's largest Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. The huge Ngiri-Tumba-Maindombe wetland in the heart of the Congo Basin was proposed for protection under the convention last July, but all the paperwork was only just completed, according to Dwight Peck of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, an international treaty that provides for protection and wise use of wetlands.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2009/2009-04-24-03.asp
New Hampshire: New Funds to Improve Wetlands
The state has developed a strategy to restore wetlands in the Merrimack River watershed, the first of 16 watersheds targeted, for which a new $650,000 pool of funding is available. Restoration benefits include improved wildlife and fish habitat, water quality, recreational opportunities and flood control, said Lori Sommer, mitigation coordinator for New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=New+funds+to+improve+wetlands&articleId=df7fe228-3c9b-4eed-b195-e727a3c38572 |
River & Watershed Restoration
North Carolina: Grant Used to Restore Stream
The Henderson County Soil and Water Conservation District has undertaken a massive restoration project on Finley Creek. Using a state grant, the district has realigned the stream's channel, added natural contours and planted vegetation. Shaun Moore heads up the project. He is the watershed coordinator for the district and worked with an engineer and property owners to improve the creek.
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20090426/TOPSTORIES/904259920?Title=Grant-used-to-restore-stream
California: Meadow Restoration may be Inexpensive Method for Water Storage
According to a Sierra Nevada Meadow Restoration draft business plan completed by the foundation in March, repairing all of the degraded Sierra meadows in California could increase late-summer water storage by the equivalent of 50,000 to 500,000 acre-feet per year. At the high end, that's the equivalent of building a medium-large reservoir larger than Camanche Reservoir on the Mokelumne River. And the foundation said that based on recent restoration projects, the additional water would cost $100 to $250 per acre-foot over the first 10 years, significantly less than the $330 to $685 per acre-foot cost of water from a reservoir proposed in Colusa County.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090426/A_NEWS14/904260318 |
| Lake Restoration
Minnesota: Win Funds for Complete Shoreline Restoration Project
The Initiative Foundation and the Whitefish Area Property Owners Association (WAPOA) have provided monies to run a contest where Whitefish Chain property owners can win the funds and manpower to complete a shoreline restoration project worth $5,000 on their privately owned property. The contest idea came through a series of brainstorming sessions hosted by the Initiative Foundation last fall, starting with the public being invited to give input on what the future is (and concerns are) regarding our lakes.
http://www.pineandlakes.com/stories/042209/sports_20090422091.shtml |
| Coastal & Marine Restoration
Connecticut: Funds Sought for Tidal Wetlands Restoration
Governor M. Jodi Rell this week announced that Connecticut has applied for $1.5 million to help fund restoration of tidal wetlands along the lower Connecticut River in the towns of Chester, Essex, Deep River, Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, East Haddam, Haddam, and Lyme. The $1.5 million is part of $12.6 million in federal stimulus grants being sought by the state for environmental projects. The money will help fund four projects to restore fragile marine and costal habitats, protect aquatic species and improve recreational fishing opportunities across the state.
http://zip06.theday.com/blogs/valley_courier/archive/2009/04/23/funds-sought-for-tidal-wetlands-restoration.aspx |
Wildlife Restoration
Texas: Restoring Nueces Habitat
A local nonprofit organization wants the Nueces Bay Causeway to look more like it used to - with plenty of marsh around it. But when the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program's $7.3 million marsh restoration project of 170 acres is completed depends on if it receives federal stimulus funds. "It will definitely help the number of threatened endangered species in the area - both aquatic fish species and migratory water birds," said Project Manager Dustin Cravey. This is hopefully one step in reversing a declining trend of population of these species."
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/apr/23/restoring-nueces-habitat/ |
| Invasive Species
Pine Rocklands Habitat Restoration in South Florida
$400,000 in Recovery Act funding will be used for the removal of invasive exotic species on 200 acres of private lands and 300 acres of public lands through partnerships with private landowners. Pine rockland is a globally imperiled ecosystem, occurs only in south Florida and the Bahamas, and is important habitat for six federally listed plant species and eight federal candidate plant species as well as other species of rare plants. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will fund 173 habitat restoration projects on public and private lands throughout the nation.
http://recovery.doi.gov/press/usfws-habitat-restoration-projects-funded-by-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act/
California: Weeding the Wilderness in Irvine
Many of those yellow flowering plants growing in Mason Regional Park's wilderness preserve are no more, after being uprooted Sunday by volunteers from UC Irvine. The tall black mustard plants are not native to the region, according to Reginald Durant, restoration director of Back to Natives Restoration, and threatened the native plants and animals.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/plants-durant-native-2376119-non-irvine
Fighting Ivy: Sorrento Oaks Residents Work to Restore Glen
It was the battle royale at Sorrento Oaks. When residents grew fed up of the ivy that threatened to take over their 5.5-acre senior mobile home park, they decided to fight back. They started the glen restoration project, aimed at ridding the property of non-native plants such as cape ivy, a native of Africa, and English ivy, a European native, and replacing them with species native to the California coast. Resident Olga Cossi helped form the restoration committee because when it comes to certain invasive plants, she has some rather strong feelings.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_1224247 |
| Urban Restoration
Korea: Overreaching Academic Role in River Restoration Plan
Not to be left out of the list of recent overreaches is the "Four Major Rivers Restoration Project." This project decided upon by the Presidential Committee on Balanced National Development was advertised as having the possibility of creating 190,000 new jobs and generating a production inducement effect of 23 trillion won through a 14 trillion won effort. However, the project has gone ahead without any specific plan for it, and the master plan still has not come out. It looks like its drafters have a lot to think about.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_opinion/352067.html
Rhode Island: Back to its Habitat
A small backhoe crawled over the muddy marsh muck at Stillhouse Cove, digging a trench that environmentalists hope will help restore the cove's salt marsh, one they cherish as an urban rarity in Rhode Island. Thursday, Wenley Ferguson, restoration coordinator for Save the Bay, wielded a shovel as she monitored the progress in the cove, situated at one end of Cranston's desirable Edgewood neighborhood, with its tightly packed historic houses and plentiful sidewalks.
http://www.projo.com/news/content/STILLHOUSE_COVE_04-24-09_0GE4SUF_v14.36aaf08.html
California: Foss Creek Restoration Planned
For decades, Foss Creek in downtown Healdsburg has been regarded as more drainage ditch than creek. But three sets of donors have stepped up with almost $100,000 in all to help restore a portion of the waterway to its natural condition. The money will be put to work clearing out invasive plants along the creek and replacing them with native species.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090424/ARTICLES/904249914/1312/LIFESTYLE07?Title=Foss-Creek-restoration-planned |
| Funding Opportunities
West Virginia: Wetlands-Grasslands Program Offered - Closes May 1, 2009
West Virginia landowners interested in restoring, protecting or creating wetlands and grasslands on their properties can sign up for federal funding. The U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Farm Service Agency are accepting applications for funding this year. The deadline is May 1.
http://www.dailymail.com/ap/ApTopStories/200904030217
Indiana American Water to Fund Innovative Environmental Projects - Closes June 1, 2009
Indiana American Water announced today that the application process is now open for its 2009 Environmental Grant Program to support innovative, community-based environmental projects that improve, restore or protect watersheds and community drinking water supplies. The company will award grants of up to $10,000. The program is designed to support diverse types of activities, such as watershed cleanups, reforestation efforts, biodiversity projects, streamside buffer restoration projects, wellhead protection initiatives and hazardous waste collection efforts.
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=35173
New Jersey: Assistance Available for Wetland Restoration - Closes June 1, 2009
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced that applications will be accepted through Monday, June 1 for 2009 funding of wetland restoration projects on active or previously-farmed lands in New Jersey.
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090221/NEWS/90219061/1010/newsfront
Minnesota: Wetland Restoration Dollars Available - Closes June 5, 2009
Government money is available to compensate rural landowners interested in restoring wetlands on their property. Through June 5, landowners can sign up for payments through the state's Wetlands Reserve Program to restore wetlands that have been drained and have a history of being used for agriculture production. Payment rates are based on township-average land values.
http://www.hutchinsonleader.com/news/announcements/wetland-restoration-dollars-available-through-june-5-104
National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program - Closes June 26, 2009
The National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program provides States with a means of protecting and restoring these valuable resources. Projects can include (1) acquisition of a real property interest (e.g., easement or fee title) in coastal lands or waters from willing sellers or partners (coastal wetlands ecosystems) for long-term conservation or (2) restoration, enhancement, or management of coastal wetlands ecosystems for long-term conservation.
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=44928 | |
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