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 RESTORE is a weekly e-bulletin, published by SER International, linking you to the latest, breaking news stories from around the world keeping you up-to-date on a wide variety of topics related to ecological restoration including the latest funding opportunities. RESTORE is free to SER International members or can be subscribed to for only $20/year by visiting: www.ser.org/content/restoration_network.asp. Please send your news stories and articles to the RESTORE editor at info@ser.org. | |
Get Involved / Community-Based Restoration
Get Involved/Community-based Restoration
Washington: Wetland Restoration Project With Friends of the Cedar River Watershed May 8
Come help restore habitat in your watershed at the Taylor Creek restored wetlands. This natural area is a wonderful success story of habitat restoration! This tributary to the Cedar River once flooded local roads and infrastructure. Since the wetland has been restored; flooding has ceased, the site is dense with native vegetation, and evidence of beaver activity is abundant! http://environmentlink.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/wetland-restoration-project-may-8/
Florida: FIU partners with local high school on mangrove restoration project
It's Earth Day and the students of Alonzo & Tracy Mourning High School Biscayne Bay Campus are hard at work in the greenhouse that sits on the edge of campus. It's a smaller group than usual - this year Earth Day happens to fall on Take Your Child to Work Day - but it doesn't matter. The tasks still get done, the plants tended. Today the students are transferring the nearly 1,200 red mangrove propagules, or seedlings, from inside the greenhouse to outside, where they will reside in the sun. It's all part of a year-long mangrove restoration project being led by Jennifer Grimm, environmental coordinator at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC), and Martin Roch, a biology/marine science teacher at Alonzo & Tracy Mourning High School. http://news.fiu.edu/2010/04/fiu-partners-with-local-high-school-on-mangrove-restoration-project/
Conferences & Workshops
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| New Books & Articles
Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land, Island Press
Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land is the first practical guidebook to give restorationists and would-be restorationists with little or no scientific training or background the "how to" information and knowledge they need to plan and implement ecological restoration activities. The book sets forth a step-by-step process for developing, implementing, monitoring, and refining on-the-ground restoration projects that is applicable to a wide range of landscapes and ecosystems. http://www.conservationmaven.com/frontpage/new-conservation-books-may-2010.html
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| Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
It's Not Easy Turning High Environmental Value into High Economic Value
That will be a hot topic at this week's National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference in Austin, Texas, as ecosystem markets race from infancy to adolescence. Some say the best way to create incentives to restore the most environmentally valuable properties is to let landowners sell restoration credits garnered from a single location into multiple ecosystem markets. Others say that would be an old-fashioned double-dip that benefits the landowner without generating any additional good for the environment. http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/dynamic/article.page.php?page_id=7544§ion=news_articles&eod=1 |
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Applying Indigenous Knowledge To The Restoration Of Degraded Tropical Rain Forest Clearings Dominated By Bracken Fern
The Lacandon Maya of Chiapas, southern Mexico, have traditionally used a long fallow rotational slash-and-burn system for maize production in small clearings within tropical forest. Although successional processes usually lead to rapid restoration of abandoned fields, the invasive fern, Pteridium aquilinium (commonly known as Bracken), can block natural succession. The Lacandon are aware of this and use the fast-growing tree Balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) to accelerate succession toward mature forest. We carried out a 12-month-long experiment in a Bracken-infested area to test the effectiveness of the Lacandon's low-input restoration techniques. We found that we could successfully establish Balsa in plots dominated by Bracken using the Lacandon methodology.
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| Biodiversity & Climate Change
Poor want biomass, not biodiversity, finds study
Preserving biodiversity may be the goal of conservationists and environmental activists, but preserving biomass is a more important priority for the poor, says a literature review. The finding, which researchers said was unexpected, was the result of one of three reviews presented to a symposium this week (28-29 April). http://www.scidev.net/en/news/poor-want-biomass-not-biodiversity-finds-study.html
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| Wetland Restoration
Pennsylvania: Local groups are vital to Pymatuning wetland restoration
Ducks, however, need the soggy spaces. And then there are duck hunters, who love all manner of marshes and swamps. That love is clearly genuine in western Pennsylvania, where wetlands are a scarce cog in the mixed landscape. It is genuine enough to inspire the Pymatuning Partnership, a high-energy assembly of hunters, businesses and organizations which has set for itself the goal of restoring wetland habitats at the Pymatuning Wildlife Management Area in Crawford County. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10122/1054890-358.stm |
River & Watershed Restoration
Washington: Boeing agrees to restore Duwamish fish, bird habitat
Boeing will restore fish habitat along the Duwamish Waterway and pay $2 million to settle allegations that decades of airplane manufacturing helped pollute the waterway with oil and other toxic substances. The settlement was filed Tuesday in federal court in Seattle. Boeing agreed to undertake two habitat-restoration projects to benefit salmon and other fish and birds. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011779774_boeing05m.html?syndication=rss
Missouri River Ecosystem Restoration Plan
The MATRIX Consulting team is providing support to Louis Berger in their contract with the US Army Corps of Engineers to provide services for the preparation of the Missouri River Ecosystem Restoration Plan (MRERP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Specifically, Dr. Chapman assists the project delivery team in strategic communications planning, including assistance wth tribal communicatons and public engagement. http://www.matrixcgi.com/collaboration-strategies/-missouri-river-ecosystem-restoration-plan-.html |
| Lake Restoration
Ducks Unlimited, partners awarded Great Lakes restoration grant
Ducks Unlimited received one of the first Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grants through the Sustain Our Great Lakes program this past week. DU and its partners will restore coastal streams and marshes in northern Michigan using the $783,823 grant. Partners and additional recipients gathered in Grand Rapids, Mich., along with Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Rep. Vernon Ehlers to celebrate the first grants funded by the historic initiative, administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. http://www.ducks.org/states/59/news/pub/article2152.html
E & E Wins Contract to Support Great Lakes Restoration
Ecology and Environment, Inc., (E & E) has been awarded a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $12 million for ecosystem restoration and environmental consulting services by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Buffalo District. Work will be performed primarily as part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) within USACE's Buffalo, Chicago, and Detroit Districts but could also include services throughout USACE's Great Lakes and Ohio River Division boundaries. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/e-e-wins-contract-to-support-great-lakes-restoration-2010-05-04?reflink=MW_news_stmp |
Wildlife Restoration
Restoration Efforts For The Mexican Grey Wolf In New Mexico
Under this program, Mexican gray wolves in Mexico were to be captured and bred to increase their population. These wolves would then be reintroduced to the wild after a few years. The program aimed to breed at least a hundred of these animals before restoration of the wolves to the wild. The restoration plan was given the green light by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service five years after the agreement was entered into by the US and Mexico. These countries now use their resources for restoring the wolves back where they belong. http://healthyhomesmart.com/2010/05/03/restoration-efforts-for-the-mexican-grey-wolf-in-new-mexico-2/
Let all of Kentucky share in joy of living with elk
The article created local interest here in Bell and Harlan counties because it failed to address the host of unintended consequences associated with this elk reintroduction experiment. While we applaud the creativity of our neighbors from Knott, we are at a different intersection on this elk reintroduction highway. This project by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, et. al, was promoted as an exciting advance in wildlife management just full of economic development potential for certain areas of Eastern Kentucky with very limited downside or problems. After a decade the economic boomlet has occurred, but the economic benefit has gone to the Department of Fish and Wildlife treasury with the notable exception of the elk jewelry proceeds to the Knott county craftswomen. http://www.kentucky.com/2010/05/03/1249168.html |
| Invasive Species
Invasive species threaten the richness of the Galapagos Islands
Species such as goats, ants, rats, cats or wild blackberry bush, for invasive alien flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands, threatens the balance of one of the most special places on the planet, where 97 percent of the territory is protected. http://www.sciencelov.com/?p=2347
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| Funding Opportunities
Australia: River Prize - Closes May 14, 2010 Nominations are sought from individuals and organisations engaged in best practice river and catchment management and restoration from across Australia. (Australian river and catchment management groups may enter both the national and international Riverprize awards). Previous entrants are encouraged to apply again. http://www.riverfoundation.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=47
FishAmerica Foundation Community-Based Fish Habitat Restoration - Closes May 17, 2010 The American Sportfishing Association's FishAmerica Foundation invites proposals for citizen-driven habitat restoration projects under its partnership with the NOAA Community-based Restoration Program. The partnership requests proposals for local efforts to accomplish meaningful on-the-ground restoration of marine, estuarine, and riparian habitats, including salt marshes, seagrass beds, mangrove forests, and freshwater habitats important to anadromous fish species (fish like salmon and striped bass that migrate to and from the sea). Emphasis is on using a hands-on, grassroots approach to restore fisheries habitat across coastal America, the Great Lakes region, and U.S. Territories of the Caribbean. https://researchfunding.duke.edu/detail.asp?OppID=8190
USDA NRCS Wetland Reserve Program - Closes May 24, 2010 Under WREP, NRCS enters into agreements with eligible partners to help enhance conservation outcomes on wetlands and adjacent lands. WREP targets and leverages resources to carry out high priority wetland protection, restoration, and enhancement activities and improve wildlife habitat through agreements with States (including a political subdivision or agency of a State), nongovernmental organizations, and Indian tribes. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/wrp/pdfs/2010-8143.pdf
Watershed Restoration Projects, Coos Bay, Oregon - Closes May 28, 2010 Specific watershed restoration and conservation efforts with non-BLM partners on federal and non-federal watershed lands in the Coos Bay District of Oregon shall include identifying, planning, and implementing culvert replacement, in-stream habitat improvement, road sediment abatement, and unwanted invasive species encroachment control projects. http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=53743
CIAP Protection and Restoration of Critical Forested Habitats - Closes July 31, 2010 Approximately $16M of the CIAP funds allocated to the state of Louisiana are being used to develop and implement a Coastal Forest Conservation Initiative (CFCI) to conserve critical coastal forest habitat for storm damage reduction and the protection and restoration of rare, declining, or ecologically significant habitats. http://www.lacpra.org/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&nid=72&pnid=2&pid=61&fmid=0&catid=0&elid=0 |
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