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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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http://www.islandpress.org/ser/index.html
Get Involved/Community-based Restoration
Earth Day Leader Warns of 'Ecological Bubble'
The man who spread Earth Day to the masses on Thursday said the world is on the verge of an ecological bubble that, if burst, could be cataclysmic. The only solution is to take action to avoid it, said Denis Hayes, CEO of the Seattle-based Bullitt Foundation. "Mother Nature doesn't do bailouts," Hayes said during a keynote address at the Portland Business Journal's sustainability luncheon. "One day, Mother Nature shows up and blows out your knee caps."
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/05/18/daily49.html?ana=from_rss
West Virginia: Wetlands Project to Enhance Learning
A groundbreaking is planned this summer for a wetlands project two years in the making, with plans to have the habitat available for students in the fall, Sara Wuertenberg of the Eastern Panhandle Conservation District said. "We're hoping to break ground in July," she said. Officials with the project hope to conduct classes in the wetland by October.
http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/520026.html?nav=5006
Florida: Workers, Volunteers Shell Out Oyster Habitat
Oyster communities in Tampa Bay have been heavily affected by construction activities and overfishing. Tampa Bay Watch, in partnership with Audubon of Florida and community volunteers, spent three days in mid-May creating 300 feet of new oyster shell reefs on Whiskey Stump Key, a small island just south of the mouth of the Alafia River in Riverview.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/may/22/workers-volunteers-shell-out-oyster-habitat/news-breaking/
Idaho: Spring Planting for Habitat at Lava Lake
As a continuation of our habitat restoration efforts, we conducted a major planting effort last week along the Copper Creek Riparian Restoration Corridor at Lava Lake. With the help of a crew from Intermountain Aquatics and plants from North Fork Natives, Buffaloberry Farm, Plants of the Wild, and the Kootenai Salish Tribal Nursery, we planted a huge variety of plants along a little over a 1/2 mile stream corridor and 20 acres adjacent to the stream that will be dedicated to habitat for wildlife.
http://lavalake.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/spring-planting-for-habitat-at-lava-lake/
California: Students Help Volunteers Plant Trees
Sparked by an illegal campfire, the fire burned 3,100 acres, destroyed 254 homes and 67 commercial buildings and caused $150 million in damage in the South Lake Tahoe area. But in the past few weeks, more than 1,000 volunteers, most of them school kids, turned out to plant trees in the area destroyed by the Angora Fire.
http://www.rgj.com/article/20090526/TT/905260307/1047/Students+help+volunteers+plant+trees+in+area+destroyed+by+2007+Angora+Fire
Conferences & Workshops
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
UCF Biologist Restores Oyster Reefs During Global Shellfish Demise
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| New Books & Articles
Desert Tortoises Get Real Estate Map
A new map shows where desert tortoises could relocate if displaced by climate change or human development. While the project didn't turn up many surprises, it is the first real numbers-based tortoise map that is designed to adapt to changing environmental conditions. For now, the map mostly outlines where good tortoise habitats are today. Future modifications, researchers hope, will help them protect the threatened species.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/27/desert-tortoise-map.html
How much would you pay to reduce pesticide use?
If you are an average European consumer, it seems you are willing to pay more for bread, fruit and vegetables grown without the use of pesticides compared with those grown using current farming practices. The research explored consumers' 'willingness to pay' for food produced using no pesticides or reduced pesticides compared with current farming practices.
http://www.earthportal.org/forum/?p=763 |
| Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
Investing in Our Community
The Slow Money Movement calls for the creation of new capital markets - markets that channel the flow of investment to small enterprises to bring about sustainable growth in local economies. As stated in their Principles, "We must give investors the tools they need to invest in slow, small and local. We must support entrepreneurs who see business as a tool for improving the health of land, household, community and bioregion."
http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2009/05/investing-in-our-community.html
A Global Model: The Case for Water Quality Markets in Chesapeake Bay
Ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation, water supplies for human consumption and hydropower, climate stabilization and storm protection are increasingly recognized to have economic value. For example, the market for carbon is a demonstration of an emerging, sizable market to address a global environmental issue. Following a similar path in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, work is underway to create a market for nitrogen in an effort to dramatically reduce the amount of harmful nitrogen emissions into the Bay's watershed leading to improved water quality.
http://ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/article.opinion.php?component_id=6772&component_version_id=10160&language_id=12 |
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Meeting Review: Traditional Knowledge at CSD 17
The outcome document includes several references to TK. On agriculture, enhancement of agriculture production is linked to the employment of science-based agricultural approaches and local and indigenous knowledge. On rural development, harmonization of modern technologies with traditional and indigenous knowledge, and protection and sustainable use of traditional knowledge for natural resource management, are suggested as measures to build social capital and resilience in rural communities.
http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/meeting-review-tk-at-csd-17/ |
| Agro-Ecology
Owls Replace Pesticides in Israel
Many farmers are installing nest boxes to encourage the birds, which hunt the crop-damaging rodents. In Israel, where there is a drive to reduce the use of toxic chemical pesticides, this has been turned into a government-funded national programme. Scientists and conservation charities from Jordan and Palestine have joined the scheme.
http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/39951
Shrimp Lose Shine in Bangladesh
Soil salinity and falling global prices push farmers to agriculture. An increasing number of shrimp farmers in Bangladesh are going back to paddy farming. They don't find the business lucrative anymore. Reason? "Shrimp farming has rendered our village saline...Even groundwater has become too salty to drink," said Krishnapada Mandal.
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername=20090531&filename=news&sec_id=4&sid=18
EU Could Do Better on Environmental Farming
Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money intended for environmental projects is instead being used to prop up damaging farming practices across Europe, according to a report out this month. Could Do Better is the name of a report which has been funded by the RSPB and compiled by Birdlife International looking at environmental farming schemes being paid for by the EU through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-217793
Kansas: In an Effort to Protect your Tap, a Natural Solution
The Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS), is being constructed to address this problem. The project entails building terraces on the farmland and plunging pipes underground that will deliver rainfall to a man-made wetlands planted with native grasses. The desired result is that the sedimentation will be caught by the terraces and the pollutants will be absorbed by the wetlands vegetation.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/may/26/effort-protect-your-tap-natural-solution/
Washington: Wetlands Work in Store off Reser Road
A 23-acre wetland site on farmland off of Reser Road southeast of Walla Walla is slated for restoration through a conservation agreement brokered by the Blue Mountain Land Trust. Beth Thiel, land trust conservation and stewardship director, said the agreement was worked out "after a year of project research, discussion and negotiation" to permanently protect the wetland.
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/05/21/local_news/090521local7wetland.txt
New Zealand: Funding Boost for Wellington Conservation Projects
Wetlands, dunes, remnant forests and lizards are among the beneficiaries of a $146,719 funding boost for conservation projects on private land in the Wellington region. Nine projects in the region have received a share of the latest allocation of the contestable Biodiversity Funds, available to landowners, organisations and community groups working on biodiversity projects to protect indigenous biodiversity on private land. The grants were announced this week by the Department of Conservation's Director General Al Morrison.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0905/S00272.htm
California: A Growing Concern
These three wooded acres off Beard Road where Jean Wheeler and Mike Gleason grow and sell native trees is a remnant of the original Beard family ranch that still preserves some of that family's original fruit trees - persimmons, prunes, figs and pomegranates - that are between 50 and 100 years old. Only now there's also a forest of oaks. When Wheeler took over the site 20 years ago, she left the fruit trees and began planting a labyrinth pattern of acorns from native species.
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2009/05/25/business/juliane_locke/doc4a13a6887f59b914923612.txt |
| Biodiversity & Climate Change
Adaptation Emerges As Key Part Of Any Climate Change Plan
After years of reluctance, scientists and governments are now looking to adaptation measures as critical for confronting the consequences of climate change. And increasingly, plans are being developed to deal with rising seas, water shortages, spreading diseases, and other realities of a warming world.
http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2156
U.N. Names 22 New Biosphere Reserves
Mount Myohyang, in North Korea, is one of 22 special spots added to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. A new batch of special spots where humans are interacting with the rest of nature in sustainable ways have been named by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The 22 new biosphere reserves include a legend-laced mountain in North Korea and a fairly populous region of towns and surrounding green space in southern Germany - the most urbanized such reserve so far.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/un-names-22-new-biosphere-reserves/
Canada: Protecting Species At Risk And Their Habitats
Ontario is supporting 118 projects across the province that will help protect and recover species at risk. As part of the province's $18-million, four-year Species at Risk Stewardship Fund, this year funding of more than $4-million will support many diverse projects
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2009/26/c7786.html
Rare Animals 'to be moved from native habitats because of climate change'
They are considering a controversial strategy called "managed relocation". The project, partly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), involves humans stepping in to move species into more accommodating habitats. Managed relocation has been rejected by some scientists who fear the relocated species could overpopulate a new area and cause local organisms to become extinct. The system, presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, will help scientists determine whether moving a particular species into a foreign habitat for protection would work.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114849&org=NSF&from=news
Australia: Climate Change - Further Threat to Aboriginals
Climate change will further marginalise Australia's Aboriginal communities, forcing them out of their traditional lands, destroying their culture and significantly affecting their access to water resources, indigenous rights advocates warn. "As coastal and island communities confront rising sea levels, and inland areas become hotter and drier, indigenous people are at risk of further economic marginalisation, as well as potential dislocation from and exploitation of their traditional lands, waters and natural resources," said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma.
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/abibiwiase-adawurob-s-m-afrikan-world-news/39859-australia-climate-change-further-threat-aboriginals.html |
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Peru Recognizes Private Conservation Areas on Community Lands in High Andes
The government of Peru has recognized two Private Conservation Areas on community lands in the Cordillera Vilcanota, near Machu Picchu, that protect threatened forests composed of trees known as Polylepis, for the benefit of local communities and endangered wildlife. The project, sponsored by the American Bird Conservancy in conjunction with its Peruvian partner group Asociación Ecosistemas Andinos (ECOAN), has been working with local communities towards the creation of a number of planned forest reserves, which are being made possible by sustainable development projects benefiting local citizens.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/andes-reserves009.html#cr
Biodiversity Beyond the Habitat's Borders
In order to determine what role habitat connectivity might play in habitat conservation and restoration practices, the USDA Forest Service-Savannah River created eight experimental landscapes in 2000, each with five open patches in the pine plantation forest near Aiken, S.C. Within each landscape, two of the five patches were connected by a corridor and the remaining three were left isolated. Today, this is the location of the world's largest experimental test of corridors and one of the world's largest habitat fragmentation experiments.
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/biodiversity-beyond-habitats-borders-21360.html
Louisiana: Flooding Puts Mollicy Restoration Project on Hold
Mollicy, which was cleared for farmland and surrounded by the 30-foot high levee in the 1960s, has already been replanted with 3 million native hardwood seedlings since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acquired the land in the early 1990s. Its ultimate restoration as a bottomland basin also will provide considerably more protection from Ouachita River flooding.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090520/UPDATES01/90520025 |
| Wetland Restoration
New York: Wind Company to Fund Wetland Restoration Effort
Iberdrola Renewables Inc. is paying for part of a forested wetland restoration project along the Deer River in the town of Montague. Iberdrola is the owner of Maple Ridge Wind Farm and developer of the proposed Roaring Brook Wind Farm. "We were made aware of the project and we consider the restoration project important to the area and recreation and tourism in the community so we wanted to be a part of it," Iberdrola spokeswoman Jan Johnson said.
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090522/NEWS04/305229973/-1/NEWS
Argentina: WWF Delivers on 100 Million Hectares of Wetlands Pledge
Declaration of the high Andes home to two of the three species of Andean flamingos marks WWF's delivery of a "crazy, unrealistic pledge" to deliver 100 million hectares of new protected wetlands in a decade. Fittingly, the 3000 to nearly 7000 metre high Lagunas Altoandinas y Punenas de Catamarca in north west Argentina is the highest area to be declared a wetland of international importance under the International Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar Convention).
http://www.panda.org/wwf_news/?165342/WWF-delivers-on-100-million-hectares-of-wetlands-pledge
US: Five Star Restoration Program Announces New Grants
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Association of Counties (NACo) and the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) announced that the Five Star Restoration Program will award new grants totaling $765,429 to 27 different community-led wetland and streamside restoration projects nationwide. These communities have committed an additional $2.2 million in local project support.
http://huntingblogger.blogspot.com/2009/05/five-star-restoration-program-announces.html
Costa Rica: Environmental Court Orders Restoration Of Damage At Palo Verde Park
The Administrative Environmental Court (TAA) is giving the government one year to stop and repair damages caused to 3,000 hectares within the Palo Verde National Park in Guanacaste, which has been declared as a Ramsar wetland of international importance.
http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2009/may/25/nac06.htm |
River & Watershed Restoration
Oregon: Creek Effort Balances Technology, Habitat
Biologists are relying on computer simulators and engineered earthen structures to return natural features to a stretch of lower Little Butte Creek that hasn't been itself for more than 50 years. A series of geomorphic riffles, strategically placed boulders, engineered logjams and structures called "vegetative soil lifts" have been designed to restore the creek to its meandering, multichanneled streambed through a stretch of the Denman Wildlife Area.
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090526/NEWS/905260316/-1/rss01
Wisconsin: Shoreline Restoration Grant Could Enhance Former Gilbert Paper Mill Site
Officials hope to secure $2.5 million in federal stimulus funding through a coastal marine habitat restoration grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "It's more about habitat restoration, restoring the original ecology to the area, if you will," said Menasha Parks and Recreation Director Brian Tungate.
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20090523/APC0101/905230552/1003/APC01/Grant+could+enhance+shoreline+along+Gilbert+mill+site
New Jersey: Millstone Watershed has Three 'Hotspots'
American Rivers, the nation's leading river conservation organization, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Restoration Center, awarded the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association a Community-based Habitat Restoration Program Partnership Grant in the amount of $35,000 to assess the feasibility of removing two dams on the Lower Millstone River near the townships of Franklin and Hillsborough to open an additional 14.1 miles of the river to fish.
http://examiner.gmnews.com/news/2009/0521/front_page/003.html
Washington: Improving Habitat at Cemetery Creek
Critical area mitigation funds from the development of Snohomish Station are at work to improve habitat at Cemetery Creek. In 2007, the Sustainable Fisheries Foundation received $93,000 from Wakefield Development, developer of Snohomish Station, for habitat improvements in the Cemetery Creek watershed. After consulting with a citizen and agency advisory group on the best use of the funds, Sustainable Fisheries began buffer restoration along the lower reaches of Cemetery Creek in the vicinity of the G.A.R. cemetery.
http://www.snohomishtimes.com/snohomishNEWS.cfm?inc=story&newsID=555 |
| Lake Restoration
Vermont: Pond Restoration to Begin
Restoration work will begin at Sucker Pond in early June after the Bennington Select Board granted approval for the project. Sediment buildup caused by ATV and off-road vehicle use around the pond, formerly known as Lake Hancock, could lead to serious water quality concerns, including algae blooms and loss of water clarity, according to Josh Gorman, with the Agency of Natural Resources' Water Quality Division.
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/local/ci_12418155
Virginia: Work Begins to Restore Lake at Forest Hill Park
The first step in restoring a historic lake in Forest Hill Park has begun with a push to rescue fish and other aquatic life there. A dredging crew began pumping water out of Reedy Creek yesterday from a narrow channel that snakes through the wetland that has swallowed the lake over the past two decades. Workers then began netting fish, tadpoles and whatever else living in the shallow pools that remain and sending them downstream toward the James River.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/LAKE21_20090520-222013/268976/ |
| Coastal & Marine Restoration
U.N. Experts Complete Study on Environmental Damages in Gaza
Experts from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) have completed field work on a study of the environmental impact of the recent heavy fighting on Gaza strip, the agency announced on Friday. The team of eight UNEP experts spent 10 days in Gaza studying waste and waste water systems, the coastal and marine environment, and solid and hazardous waste management, including asbestos, and will make recommendations for rehabilitation this in the coming months.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200905221213.htm
Inmates Help Restore Chesapeake Bay
Men from all over Maryland, now incarcerated near Hagerstown, are helping revive the Chesapeake Bay on the Eastern Shore. As part of a restoration project, inmates last September and October harvested seeds under the direction of Stephen Ailstock, an environmental scientist with Anne Arundel Community College. Maryland Correctional Training Center inmates have cared for the seeds at a greenhouse next to Roxbury Correctional Institution south of Hagerstown.
http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=223549&format=html |
Wildlife Restoration
Restoration Group: Rockies Need Wolves
WildEarth Guardians is releasing a report promoting Rocky Mountain National Park, the western part of Colorado and north-central New Mexico as the next best places to restore wolves. Wolves from Canada were released in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in the mid-1990s to rebuild the population. Earlier this month, wolves were removed from the federal endangered species list in the Great Lakes region and parts of the Northern Rockies.
http://durangoherald.com/sections/News/2009/05/23/Restoration_group_Rockies_need_wolves/
Canada: Project Aims to Restore Martha Creek Fish Habitat
A collaborative effort between The Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Transportation, BC Hydro, the North Columbia Environmental Society, and SPM Landscape Contractors, created the perfect day for tree planting. Willow, pine, cottonwood, cedar, and fir, were planted along a diverted section of Martha Creek to improve fish habitat along Lake Revelstoke. The diversion was part of impacts from the Revelstoke Dam in the early 1980s, and continued restoration enables the proper conditions for kokanee salmon to spawn in the creek.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/revelstoketimesreview/community/46016257.html
Florida: Bonita Springs to Receive Grant Money for Sea Turtle Nest Restoration
Bonita Springs will receive $145,212 for restoring nesting sea turtle habitat. Carol Lis of the Lee County Division of Environmental Sciences applied for and received a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to provide nesting habitat impacted by the hurricanes of 2004. Five beaches in Lee County received restoration funds totaling $236,703. Bonita's share is $145,212.
http://www.news-press.com/article/20090520/NEWS0102/90520025/1075 |
| Extractive Industries
Darwin's Lessons for the Extractive Industry
The lesson in all this is one that is being learned not only by Chevron, but by the broader extractive industry: in our modern world of instant communications, Darwin's theory of evolution applies not only to animals and plants, but also to companies. Survival depends on being able to adapt to a changing environment. Oil, gas, and mineral reserves have been depleted, and the extractive industry increasingly competes for access to resources in remote corners of developing countries. In these new environments, companies face challenges that go well beyond engineering, including fragile ecosystems, impoverished communities, and weak local governance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/27/network-energy |
| Invasive Species
California: Presidio Branches Out with Eucalyptus Swap
Known scientifically as Eucalyptus globulus, the leafy giant makes up 42 percent of the park's 300-acre historic forest. Because of that, the highly flammable, invasive, branch-dropping aliens from Australia are designated historic landmarks. If the historic eucalyptus is removed, it must be replaced by - you guessed it - eucalyptus. That explains why Presidio forester Peter Ehrlich is so hard at work trying to find a kinder, gentler species of eucalyptus to replace the beastly blue gum.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/25/MNU717JSAI.DTL&type=science |
| Urban Restoration
Oregon: Ashland Council Considers Stream, Wetlands Ordinance
City residents who want to use riding lawn mowers to cut down blackberry bushes on creek-side property would have to buy a $907 permit under a proposed city ordinance. The City Council is considering new rules for protecting streams and wetlands within city limits. A proposed ordinance that would create protected buffer zones of up to 50 feet next to streams and wetlands could affect 1,800 tax lots because Ashland is laced with more than 20 streams and as many as 44 wetlands.
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090523/NEWS/905230316/-1/rss01
Toronto's Trees Getting Back to Their Roots
The City of Toronto has partnered with Trees Ontario in an innovative project in gene conservation to plant native trees in their original neighbourhoods. The Tree Seed Diversity project will bring three year-old red and black oak seedlings back to their urban roots in the city's parks and ravines. The new seedlings will be planted this month in eight parks including L'Amoreaux Park, Glen Stewart Park and Kew Gardens in east Toronto.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2009/19/c4759.html
Texas: Johnson Creek Restoration Expected to be Done by August
The $18.4 million Johnson Creek project near the new Dallas Cowboys stadium is almost complete. Paid for mostly with bond money, the restoration of the creek, which flows through the entertainment district, began in the summer and is expected to be finished by August. Besides making improvements to slow the water flow and reduce bank erosion, the city has added walking trails along the creek and enhanced the wildlife habitat with native plants and grasses and thousands of trees.
http://www.star-telegram.com/arlington_news/story/1387080.html
Iowa: Cerro Gordo Planning Roadside Restoration
The Cerro Gordo County Conservation Board has about 400 pounds of native grass and wildflower seed to restore native prairie within county roadsides. The county submitted a Living Roadway Trust Fund grant proposal seeking funding through the Iowa Department of Transportation, and was awarded funding to purchase enough seed to restore 30 acres of roadside to native vegetation.
http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2009/05/24/news/latest/doc4a18d1b70d6b1372634464.txt
India: Restoring Ecology of Urali Needs Concerted Efforts
Vijay Paranjpye, chairman of the Gomukh Environmental Trust for Sustainable Development says, "Though ground water pollution is difficult to reverse, the restoration of surface streams in and around the villages can certainly be done using plantation and constructed wetlands, natural and artificial aeration of stream water, green bridges, etc. and establishing a water purification plant of the requisite scale. Such a plan could be prepared and submitted to the PMC for financial assistance."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Restoring-ecology-of-Urali-needs-concerted-efforts-Experts/articleshow/4581646.cms
Texas: Dream Becomes a Reality on River
The 1.33-mile urban segment of the Museum Reach was finished on time and $2 million under budget, according to the San Antonio River Authority, which managed the project and will maintain it. The final cost includes $11 million for art and other enhancements privately raised by the San Antonio River Foundation. "The river itself is a work of art," Hardberger said last week before he counted down to the river's refilling.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/riverwalk/45926662.html |
| Funding Opportunities
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
FishAmerica Foundation Request for Proposals - Closes June 22, 2009
FishAmerica Foundation annually requests proposals from public and private organizations and local, state and tribal governments to fund projects that result in on-the-ground habitat restoration and clearly demonstrate significant benefits to marine, estuarine or anadromous fisheries resources. Projects must involve community participation through an educational or volunteer component tied to the restoration activities. FishAmerica also requests that applicants strive for a 1:1 non-federal match (cash or in-kind) on project proposals.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_programs/crp/partners/fishamerica.html
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
Nebraska: USDA Offers Grassland Reserve Program Sign-up - Closes July 1, 2009
Nebraska landowners wishing to maintain grazing land in grass, including range and pasture land, can apply for funds through the Grassland Reserve Program by July 1, 2009 at any USDA Service Center according to a USDA official. "Applying for GRP is continuous however, ranking dates are established to evaluate and select applications for funding," said Steve Chick, State Conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. GRP is implemented jointly by the NRCS and the USDA Farm Service Agency. Landowners can start their applications at either USDA office.
http://www.chadrad.com/newsstory.cfm?story=14278
Pennsylvania: DEP Accepting Applications for Watershed and Flood Protection Grants - Closes July 17, 2009
Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger today announced that DEP is now accepting grant applications for watershed protection and restoration and flood protection projects under the Growing Greener Plus program, which allows applicants to seek funding for a variety of projects through a single application process.
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