March 2, 2011 
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Agro-Ecology
Biodiversity & Climate
Forest Restoration
Wetland Restoration
Lake Restoration
Coastal Restoration
Invasive Species
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Get Involved / Community-Based Restoration

 

Survey to gain insight into the field of ecological restoration - Closes March 8, 2011

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9WRJF9C

 

Heinz Awards - Closes March 11, 2011

http://www.heinzawards.net/pub/documents/nominations/2011/nomination_criteria_and_form.pdf


Call for Nominations for SER Awards - Closes March 28, 2011
 The Awards Committee of the Society for Ecological Restoration is now soliciting nominations from SER members for our society awards which will be presented at the SER World Conference to be held in Merida, Mexico from August 21-25, 2011. We seek nominations for four awards: The Theodore M. Sperry Award, the Full Circle Award, the Communications Award, and the John Rieger Award. SER Awards are presented in recognition of meritorious achievement and service for advancing the craft, knowledge, and public awareness of ecological restoration. Recipients may include Society members and others. Please read the individual award criteria carefully, as nominations must meet the award criteria to be considered. Descriptions of the award criteria and a link to the on-line nomination form may be found at:  http://www.ser.org/content/ser_awards_program.asp


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Get Involved/Community-based Restoration

 

California: South Bay wetlands restoration brings together SD county residents

Breaking ground in September, the Chula Vista Wildlife Reserve restoration is the product of government, business, environmentalist and grass root volunteers, restoring more than 280 acres of recovered natural habitat. The Port anticipates renovation of the entire 280 acres in the Chula Vista Wildlife Reserve and National Wildlife Refuge, as well as Pond 10 and 11 in the Salt Works near Imperial Beach, to be completed by September 2011.

http://sandiegonewsroom.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43280:chula-vista-wetlands-restoration-project-brings-together-sd-county-residents&catid=43:wildlife&Itemid=59

 

Oregon: Watershed Wide Volunteer Restoration Event - March 5, 2011

http://www.katu.com/outdoors/events/105366513.html

 

Washington: Maury Island Marine Park Restoration - March 12, 2011

http://pugetsound.org/connect/events/031211maury/?searchterm=None

 

Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter Society for Ecological Restoration - April 1-3, 2011

http://nced.umn.edu/content/midwest-great-lakes-chapter-society-ecological-restoration-2011-meeting

 

Forest Restoration in Theory and in Practice

A PhD-course to be held in Skåne, southern Sweden, April 13 - 20, 2011

http://www.nova-university.org/UserFiles/File/PhD_Applications_2011/Flyer_-_forest_restoration_in_theory_and_practice_final.pdf

 

Florida: Service at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge - April 3-9, 2011

http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/national/brochure/11076a.aspx

 

Arizona: Managing for Tomorrow's Forest Workshop in Flagstaff - May 16-18, 2011

http://www.safnet.org/natworkshop11/index.cfm

 

Costa Rica - Conservation & Restoration Genetics - OTS Specialty Course - May 21 - June 5, 2011

http://www.ots.ac.cr/images/downloads/education/graduate/specialty-courses/genetics-2011.pdf

 

University of Victoria Restoration Institute - May 27-28, 2011

This year's Restoration Institute, held in partnership with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), will bring together ecosystem experts and policy-makers from around the world to discuss the practical and policy issues arising from novel or no-analogue ecosystems.

http://www.restorationinstitute.ca/

 

Fourth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds - September 26-30, 2011

http://copeh-can.typepad.com/blog/2011/01/interagency-conference-on-research-in-the-watersheds.html

 

Wetland Restoration Institute - September 25-30, 2011

http://www.wetlandsandstreamrestoration.org/index_files/Page668.htm

 

2011 Conference Listing Available on the GRN

http://www.globalrestorationnetwork.org/conferences/

People in the News

 

Ted Falgout is chosen as Conservationist of the Year

 

Ted Falgout, retired executive director of Port Fourchon and longtime advocate for coastal restoration in Louisiana, has been chosen to receive the Governor's Award - Conservationist of the Year for 2010. The award will be presented March 18 during the Louisiana Wildlife Federation's annual convention in Alexandria.

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2011/02/ted_falgout_is_chosen_as_conse.html

 

Winding Trails Honored For Pond Restoration Program

Winding Trails' "Save Walton Pond Wildlife Restoration Project" has received the 2010 Eleanor P. Eells Award for Program Excellence by the American Camp Association.

http://www.courant.com/community/farmington/hc-farmington-honor-0301-20110228,0,4066574.story

 

UK: Diamond jubilee tree-planting project launched

The princess royal will plant the first tree for the Jubilee Woods project, organised by the Woodland Trust charity. The project, which has the Queen's support and the princess as patron, aims to plant the trees across the UK and involve millions of people to celebrate the Queen's 2012 diamond jubilee.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/24/queen-diamond-jubilee-tree-planting

New Books & Articles

 

 

Study Suggests Habitat Restoration Efforts Need Increase To Produce Measurable Fish Abundance

Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Northwest Fisheries Science Center's Watershed Program have completed a study demonstrating that a larger, more concentrated effort is required to produce measurable changes in fish abundance at a watershed scale.

http://www.cbbulletin.com/405831.aspx

 

Restoring Disturbed Landscapes: Putting Principles into Practice

Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is a hands-on guide for individuals and groups seeking to improve the functional capacity of landscapes. The book presents a five-step, adaptive procedure for restoring landscapes that is supported by proven principles and concepts of ecological science.

http://islandpress.org/bookstore/detailsd633.html?prod_id=2017

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)

 

Integrating traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) into natural resource management

Not long ago in a remote grassland, a group of tribal elders, accompanied by a national park fire chief, botanist, and resource chief, gave a short prayer before setting fire to the meadow to help restore native vegetation and fight off invasive species. This fire was started and maintained with traditional methods, the same methods used by the tribe long before the designation of the park, or even the National Park Service. In another park unit more than 1,000 miles (1,609 km) away, selected park employees slog through a swamp, treading on Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia), a flowering plant also known as Indian potato that grows in shallow wetlands.

http://www.nature.nps.gov/parkscience/index.cfm?ArticleID=442

 

Canada: Forest co-management agreement signed with Abeqweit First Nation

Our forestry staff will work closely with representatives of the Abegweit First Nation on sustainable forestry practices which will include developing land management plans and training in wood harvesting and forest restoration, said Minister Brown. This agreement will improve the health of our forests and create expertise in small-scale silviculture.

http://www.canadaviews.ca/2011/02/13/forest-co-management-agreement-signed-with-abeqweit-first-nation/

Agro-Ecology

 

India: 'Budget aims to raise farm yield, lower ecological damage'

Food security and organic farming can go hand in hand. Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today gave a green signal to efforts under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture to promote green manuring and organic farming while talking about bringing in the Food Securtiy Act this year, settling the debate on high pesticide and chemical fertiliser use in Punjab and Haryana.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/budget-aims-to-raise-farm-yield-lower-ecological-damage/755971/

Biodiversity & Climate Change

 

Blue carbon' plan takes shape

An international effort to protect coastal wetlands by assigning them carbon credits kicked off last week in Paris. The aim is to do for some wetland plants - mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes - what carbon credits have done for trees.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110221/full/news.2011.112.html

 

Tree Planting Record Broken In Philippines

Speedy tree planting may be the answer to the world's dwindling forest problem. This past Thursday, over 64,000 trees were planted in 15 minutes, breaking the world record for the most trees planted simultaneously.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/27/tree-planting-record-philippines_n_828462.html

 

Arizona: Groups sign pact to restore forests

A group of people who had been legal adversaries at times have signed an agreement to help restore northern Arizona's ponderosa pine forest. Conservationists, scientists, timber industry representatives, local officials and the U.S. Forest Service agreed this week to work together to help accelerate restoration in a 2.4 million-acre area along the Mogollon Rim.

http://www.kswt.com/Global/story.asp?S=14139600

Wetland Restoration

 

New York: Marine Park Salt Marsh Restoration Nears Completion

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - the agency leading the project - began work on the $8 million project last spring, and will be putting on the finishing touches this winter. Most of the grading and planting required to create 67 acres of marshland habitat was completed over the summer, but Corps contractors are taking advantage of the off season to work on trail modifications and grading in areas just outside the new marshes.

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=41601

 

Illinois: Ducks Unlimited Among 17 Newly Accredited Land Trusts

Ducks Unlimited is planning a new wetland restoration project for Upper Peoria Lake in central Illinois, the national waterfowl and wetland conservation organization announced at the Illinois DU state convention on the weekend.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2011/2011-02-23-091.html

Lake Restoration  

 

US: Up to $40 million available from EPA for Great Lakes restoration projects

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the agency is requesting applications from states, municipalities, tribes and nonprofit organizations for new projects to protect and restore the Great Lakes. President Obama has proposed a total of $300 million in funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in Fiscal Year 2011, with approximately $40 million of that total allocated to EPA for distribution through this competitive grant program. The final budget is subject to Congressional appropriation.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/5b810c7fae04b95385257842005697c9?OpenDocument

 

Illinois: Upper Peoria Lake part of DU project

Ducks Unlimited has purchased 237 acres on the east side of Upper Peoria Lake for its latest wetland restoration project. The property, known as Jenkins Marsh after the family that farmed the land, is adjacent to the Woodford County State Fish and Wildlife Area.

http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x2114545145/Upper-Peoria-Lake-part-of-DU-project

 

Coastal & Marine Restoration

 

India: Specialist US firm to help restore Navi Mumbai mangroves

Moving quickly after the green flag from the Union Environment Ministry, the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra (CIDCO) has sought the services of one of the world's leading wetland restoration firms to regenerate mangroves that will be destroyed by the Navi Mumbai International Airport project. Lewis Environmental Services, headquartered in Pennsylvania in the US, aims to start work on developing a mangrove park in Navi Mumbai in June to take advantage of the monsoon season, even as CIDCO has set itself an ambitious target of May to call for bids for the project, officials said.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/specialist-us-firm-to-help-restore-navi-mumbai-mangroves/755380/

 

Australia: Disaster relief cash may go to restoring foreshores

National disaster relief cash could be used to cover the cost of reinstating foreshores and vegetation along the Far North coast.

http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/02/25/151305_local-news.html

Invasive Species

 

Invasive Species Reconsidered: Finding a Value in Non-Natives

One of the tenets of conservation management holds that alien species are ecologically harmful. But a new study is pointing to research that demonstrates that some non-native plants and animals can have beneficial impacts.

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/invasive_species_reconsidered_finding_a_value_in_non-natives/2373/

Funding Opportunities


 Estuary Habitat Restoration Program Project Solicitation - Closes March 10, 2011 

On behalf of the Estuary Habitat Restoration Council (Council), NOAA Fisheries Service is soliciting proposals for estuary habitat restoration projects.

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=61934

 

2011 Riverprize Applications Now Open - Closes March 30, 2011

International RiverFoundation is pleased to announce the 2011 Riverprize applications are now open! All organisations, big and small, engaged in all aspects of river management are eligible to apply for either the Thiess International Riverprize or Australian National Riverprize (funded by the Australian Government). Further information may be found at www.riverfoundation.org.au, or email questions to riverprize@riverfoundation.org.au

 

Funding Opportunity for Community-based Habitat Restoration - Closes April 1. 2011

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have announced the availability of funds under their joint Community-based Restoration Program (CRP).  The purpose of the CRP is to bring together interested groups and public, private, tribal and non-profit organizations to restore habitats that benefit anadromous, estuarine and marine species throughout all USA states and territories.

http://www.nyswaterfronts.com/news_storydisplay.asp?ID=146

 

Alabama: Longleaf Pine Restoration Grants Available - Closes April 1, 2011

The Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division (WFF) of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) is currently accepting applications through its Landowner Incentive Program to continue longleaf pine restoration efforts in Alabama.

http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2011/01/07/21302/

 

USDA Announces Support for Restoration of Nonindustrial Private Forest Land Damaged by Natural Disasters

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today said that $18 million will be made available to assist nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners restore lands damaged by natural disasters. The funds are provided through USDA's Emergency Forest Restoration Program.

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os_gAC9-wMJ8QY0MDpxBDA09nXw9DFxcXQ-cAA_2CbEdFAEUOjoE!/?contentidonly=true&contentid=2010%2F11%2F0614.xml

 

Terra Viva Grants develops and manages information about grants for agriculture, energy, environment, and natural resources in the world's developing countries. 

http://www.terravivagrants.org/Home/view-grant-makers

 

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.html

 

Tamarisk Related Grant Opportunities

The Tamarisk Coalition has developed a list of available Grant Opportunities to address tamarisk issues and riparian restoration. This list was revised as part of the Colorado River Basin Tamarisk and Russian Olive Assessment.

http://www.tamariskcoalition.org/FundingResources.html
 

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