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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
Attention SER Members
Discount on Wiley-Blackwell Products: Code is SDP18
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Discount on Island Press/SER Book Series: Code is 2SER
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Get Involved/Community-based Restoration
Projects like restoring forests, removing invasive species, and rehabilitating wetlands protect families and workers from climate change while putting money in wallets up and down Main Street America. Natural resource adaptation projects are some of the most profitable public and private investments - and these jobs can never be shipped overseas. We urge Congress to invest in private sector jobs that restore our natural resources and protect our communities from climate impacts today. Contact jp_leous@tws.org
Virginia: Restoring the waters - Students help plant mussels in Clinch River
They're small enough that hundreds can fit in a small cooler, but in the Clinch River, they're a big deal. They're mussels, and a record number of them were planted in the river Wednesday, the latest milestone in 40 years of environmental restoration work.
http://www2.tricities.com/news/2010/sep/23/restoring-waters-students-help-plant-mussels-clinc-ar-520525/
Managing for Forest Restoration and Resiliency in the Sierra Nevada - October 13-14, 2010
North Carolina: Nature Conservancy looking for volunteers to improve Green Swamp
The Nature Conservancy is looking for volunteers to help out at the Green Swamp Preserve with trail maintenance and habitat restoration. Workdays are scheduled for October 16 (trail maintenance) and November 13 (red-cockaded woodpecker habitat thinning). Wear work clothes and close-toed shoes. Bring gloves; if you don't have them, we will provide them.
http://www.wwaytv3.com/nature_conservancy_looking_volunteer_improve_green_swamp/09/2010
Massachusetts: Plymouth Restoration Renewed Health for Two Rivers October 21, 2010
Eel River and Town Brook, Plymouth, MA - Join this guided tour with the specialists responsible for these two successful stream and wetlands restoration projects
http://www.ecolandscaping.org/EventPDFs/October_21.pdf
Colorado: Riparian Restoration Training - November 30, 2010
The Tamarisk Coalition, in partnership with NRCS, the Upper Colorado Environmental Plant Center & the Los Lunas Plant Material Center, Cordially invites YOU to our Riparian Restoration Training to be held on: Nov 30th & Dec 1st, 2010 SAME TRAINING EACH DAY
Grand Junction, Colorado
http://www.tamariskcoalition.org/PDF/longstem-ad%202010.pdf
"Mangrove Ecology, Management and Restoration Training Course" - January 18-21, 2011
Sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve at the RBNERR in Naples, Florida. Participation is anticipated to be free of any charge (except travel and lodging and meals), but participants will be limited to those who apply to participate and are reviewed and accepted by the USFWS and the RBNERR. Total class size will be limited to 25. Contact Robin Lewis to apply: LESRRL3@AOL.COM OR LESRRL3@GMAIL.COM
Wisconsin Wetlands Association Annual Conference February 16-17, 2010
In February, 2011, Wisconsin Wetlands Association will convene members of the regional wetland community for our 16th Annual Wetland Conference to discuss the latest in wetland science, management, restoration, and protection issues. Deadline for abstract submissions: November 15, 2010.
http://www.wisconsinwetlands.org/2011conference.htm
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers - Upcoming Projects
http://wlrv.net/colorado/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.events&type=792&i=2010
Conferences & Workshops
ESA Ecology and Education Summit - October 14-15, 2010
http://www.esa.org/eesummit/
Habitat Restoration: Intensive Two-Day Workshop - October 21-22, 2010
http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/land_use_and_natural_resources/course/description/?type=A&unit=lunr&SectionID=154124&course_title=Habitat%20Restoration:%20Intensive%20Two-Day%20Workshop&prgList=NAT&AreaName=Land+Use
International Symposium on Sustainability Science - October 25-27, 2010
https://www.ser.org/pdf/ISSFlier.pdf
California Grassland Restoration Field Practices Workshop - October 28, 2010
http://www.cnga.org/pdf/workshops/Field_Practices_Flyer.pdf
Drylands, Deserts and Desertification: The Route to Restoration - November 8-11, 2010
http://www.entersymposium.com/ddd/site/
Ecological Society of Australia 2010 Annual Conference - December 5-10, 2010
http://www.esa2010.org.au/
Full 2010 Conference Listing Available on the GRN
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People in the News
35 Innovators Under 35: Meet Rhyan Grech
Meet Rhyan Grech, a biologist turned restoration coordinator turned organic farmer extraordinaire. Like many East Coast visionaries that yearn for tall trees, clean streams, and progressive politics, Rhyan Grech made a bee line for the Northwest the first chance she had. Grech finished college in West Chester, Pennsylvania with a degree in biology, then committed to two years of environmental service in the AmeriCorps program. She spent the first year in Western Massachusetts before coming west to spend the second year in Yakima, Washington. http://www.friends.org/about/35_Grech
Parks Victoria - Bill Jackson's interesting new appointment
Parks Victoria is about to get a new boss, the distinguished environmentalist Dr Bill Jackson. Dr William Jackson is the Deputy Director General of IUCN. Prior to this appointment he was the Director, Global Programme, and Head of IUCN's Forest Conservation Programme in HQ, and has worked in IUCN in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has extensive field experience in ecosystem conservation and management around the world. He has a keen interest in promoting the role of civil society in linking forest conservation practice with policy, community forestry, forest fires and forest restoration. http://misseaglesnetwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/parks-victoria-bill-jacksons.html
Puget Sound Institute receives $4 million
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced funding for the new Puget Sound Partnership. Funded with $4 million from EPA, Puget Sound Institute is located at the Center for Urban Waters. Under the direction of Joel Baker, science director at the Center for Urban Waters, Puget Sound Institute will serve as a bridge between scientists and policy makers. Baker holds the Port of Tacoma chair in environmental science at the University of Washington-Tacoma (UWT). http://www.tacomaweekly.com/article/4906
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New Books & Articles
Island Press: The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Series Download the restoration reader for free! http://islandpress.org/ser/USGA Restoration Handbook CD Rom The Landscape Restoration Handbook provides a summary of information not now available in a single volume. This is a useful reference work directed at an audience of both professionals and nonprofessionals. The authors are to be commended for putting considerable ecosystem restoration information together in one volume. http://ebookhome.org/home/usga-restoration-handbook-170809.htmlDirecting ecological succession: the role of competition in restoring semi-arid grasslands dominated by invasive plants Successful ecosystem restoration requires an understanding of the ecological processes directing succession. One of the challenges in the semi-arid grasslands of western United States is replacement of native species by invasive annual grasses. http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/18459[End Text Here]
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Agro-Ecology
Australia: Restoration of Grasslands a passion for innovation
David Franklin is a farmer, a nursery man and a self-taught mechanical engineer. He's worked with sheep, crops and has seen the trends of Landcare come and go. Bringing together 30 years of observation, practice and know-how, he has turned his attention to native grassland restoration, with impressive success. In partnership with the Grassy Groundcover Grassland Restoration Project, David has assisted in developing new techniques for native grass production and grassland restoration.
http://www.vvpcmn.org/2010/09/case-study-restoration-of-grasslands-a-passion-for-innovation-david-franklin/ |
Philippines: Use of Open Spaces for Environment Restoration Mulled In its aim to help in overall efforts in environmental restoration, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc., (RAFI) through its Generation, Redemption, and Expansion of Natural Resources Initiatives in the Philippines (GREENIN' Philippines) project, is mulling to conduct an inventory of all open spaces here which will be planted with local tree species. http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/279344/use-open-spaces-environment-restoration-mulled |
Wetland Restoration
Florida: Renewed Muck, Stuck
Nobody said it was going to be easy - and they were right. A landmark effort to restore a huge swath of Florida's wetlands isn't bringing native plants back to some areas, a new study finds. And to add insult to injury, an invasive exotic shrub appears to be gaining ground due to the restoration.
http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2010/09/renewed-muck-stuck/
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River & Watershed Restoration
Michigan: US, private groups join to turn field to wetlands
A stretch of Detroit River shoreline is going back to nature, with the re-flooding of a tract of land drained for farming a century ago. Officials held a dedication ceremony Saturday for the 67-acre wetland restoration project. It's the outgrowth of years of work by federal and private officials to acquire and transform the land into a home for wildlife.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-detroitriver-wetl,0,5289149.story Idaho: Corps of Engineers Awards Stimulus-Funded Construction Contract for Green/Duwamish Ecosystem Restoration
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, awarded an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contract Sept. 16 to Performance Systems Inc., a small business based in Fruitland, Idaho, to begin construction of the Upper Springbrook Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project in Renton, Wash. The $649,990 Upper Springbrook Creek project will restore a 900-foot stream currently running through a roadside ditch along the north side of South 55th Street in Renton.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4555324.htm |
Desertification & Arid Land Restoration
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China's great green wall grows in climate fight
Regarding the Guardian article below, this "reforestation" in China is largely being done with massive-scale industrial tree plantations. In some regions, these include poplars genetically engineered for Bt insect resistance-which was started in 2001 with help from the UN. In 2004 the Nanjing Institute for Environmental Science reported that these poplars were already contaminating native poplars. This is a grand experiment in forestry-gone-amok. Restoring native forests is what is needed, not massive water-intensive, soil depleting, biodiversity-less monoculture tree plantations.
http://withoutyourwalls.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/china%E2%80%99s-great-green-wall-grows-in-climate-fight/
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Coastal & Marine Restoration
Pakistan: IUCN, Barclays ink accord on mangrove conservation
Under the agreement IUCN Pakistan will raise a mangroves plantation of over 25 hectares along the Karachi coast. The area selected for plantation is densely populated and highly degraded. "Over a period of 60 years the selected coastal strip has degraded due to over exploitation, pollution and neglect. Besides creating a green belt, the plantation will also constitute a barrier to protect communities from coastal calamities as well as enhance fisheries potential in the immediate vicinity", said Shah Murad Aliani.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C09%5C26%5Cstory_26-9-2010_pg5_5
Coastal restoration trust fund idea backed by America's Energy Coast
The federal government should establish a trust fund to pay for coastal restoration projects in states along the northern Gulf Coast, to be initially financed by penalties paid for violating federal laws, including 80 percent of any fines levied as a result of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, concludes a report released Tuesday by America's Energy Coast and its parent America's Wetland Foundation.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/09/coastal_restoration_trust_fund.html
Everglades Restoration's Momentum Challenged by Growing Costs
The multibillion-dollar effort to restore the Everglades has made slow but tangible progress in recent years, but scientists today warned that sustaining momentum will be among the top challenges as costs continue to rise.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/23/23greenwire-everglades-restorations-momentum-challenged-by-86039.html |
Wildlife Restoration
US: Endangered Species Act - Conflicting Values and Difficult Choices
Once a species is listed, powerful legal tools are available to aid its recovery and protect its habitat. ESA may also be controversial because dwindling species are usually harbingers of broader ecosystem decline. The most common cause of species listing is habitat loss. ESA is considered a primary driver of large-scale ecosystem restoration issues.
http://natural-resources-reports.blogspot.com/2010/09/endangered-species-act-esa-in-the111th.html |
Extractive Industries
Panel Wants BP Fines to Pay for Gulf Restoration
A large share of the penalties collected from BP for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill should be dedicated to repairing the ecological, economic, public health and psychological damage from the spill, according to a group named by President Obama to chart a course for the future of the wounded gulf. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/politics/28spill.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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Invasive Species
Canada: Sand dune battle saving plant species Excavators are tearing up parts of one of Vancouver Island's most popular beaches and nearby trees are being burned in bonfires. But the scene of destruction on Wickanninish Beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is all in aid of environmental restoration. The massive sand dune behind the beach is losing a 40-year battle with a tenacious and invasive beach grass called ammophila and Parks Canada staff, with the help of machinery and volunteers, are tearing up grassy islands that are swallowing up the endangered coastal sand dune ecosystem. http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Sand+dune+battle+saving+plant+species/3579018/story.html[End Text Here]
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Funding Opportunities
World: Call for wet carbon proposals Danone would like to invest in projects which deliver certified carbon credits and local community benefits through restoring mangrove ecosystems. They are interested in large-scale projects which can be implemented quickly and efficiently. Working in partnership with IUCN and Ramsar, Danone is seeking to invest in wet carbon projects that have the potential to deliver between 10,000 and 300,000 tons per annum of carbon offsets, certifiable by the Clean Development Mechanism or the Voluntary Carbon Standard. http://wetcarbon.com/California: Ecosystem Restoration on Agricultural Lands (ERAL) Grant funding applications are accepted on a year-round basis. The WCB meets four times each year, normally in February, May, August, and November to consider approval of funding for projects. http://www.wcb.ca.gov/ERAL/grants.htmlMinnesota: Funding Available for Shoreland Vegetation Projects - Closes October 1, 2010 The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) invites grant proposals for projects that would restore native shoreline vegetation across Minnesota. More than $300,000 is available for projects, which are limited to $50,000 to $100,000 per individual request. http://outdoornewsdaily.com/index.php/archives/13599NOAA: Marine Debris - Closes November 1, 2010 This funding opportunity is now open. See below for information on how to apply. Through NOAA's Marine Debris Program, the NOAA Restoration Center administers the Community-based Marine Debris Prevention and Removal Grants Program. This funding supports locally driven, community-based marine debris prevention and removal projects that benefit coastal habitat, waterways, and wildlife including migratory fish. http://www.habitat.noaa.gov/funding/marinedebris.htmlNOAA: Open Rivers Initiative - Closes November 17, 2010 Through its Open Rivers Initiative, NOAA's Restoration Center provides technical expertise and financial assistance to remove dams and barriers and restore habitat for the many species that migrate between the ocean and the nation's freshwater rivers and streams. This initiative contributes to sustainability of U.S. fisheries, provides an economic boost for communities, and improves public safety. http://www.habitat.noaa.gov/funding/ori.html |
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