Comment on the Restoration Center's PEIS- Due May 31, 2012
NOAA is developing a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) to help us measure the impact of our restoration projects. To learn more about the PEIS process or make suggestions about issues they should consider, you can look over the latest documents online.

FAO Forest Restoration Monitoring Tool 
To initiate the analysis and compile the lessons learnt, FAO developed a comprehensive Forest Restoration Monitoring Tool (FRMT) to analyze and evaluate field projects/programs and to help guide project implementers in compiling the lessons learnt, analyzing and monitoring the performance and impacts of forest restoration projects and programmes. Click here for full details.

SER-Great Basin: Post-Fire Land Restoration Workshop & Field Trip - July 12-13
The workshop will be held July 12-13, 2012 at the Best Western Airport Plaza in Reno, Nevada.

Utah: Field Tour and Summer Meeting-SER Great Basin -June 18-20
SER-Great Bain and The Utah Chapter of the Society for Range Management will hold a combined meeting and field tour on June 18-20, 2012 in Ephraim, Utah.

Texas: Soil & Water Conservation Society- 2012 Annual Conference- July 22-25

SER-Texas: 2012 Annual TxSER Conference- Call for Papers - Due Aug 31
TxSER will hold their annual conference from Nov. 2-4, 2012 in Weslaco, Texas.

Thicket Forum 2012: Reconnecting People and Thicket- Sept. 4-6

SER-Europe: The 8th European Conference on Ecological Restoration-Sept 9-14

 EcoSummit 2012-Ecological Sustainability- Sept. 30- Oct. 5

6^th Annual Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration- Oct. 20-24

Florida: Creation and Restoration or Wetlands Workshop- November 8-10

SER-Australasia: Inaugural Conference- -Nov 28-30

2012 Conference Listing on the Global Restoration Network (GRN)

SER Members receive 25% off Island Press book purchases. Contact caroline@ser.org for details!

(VIDEO) Restoring Wetlands to Prevent Global Warming
Take a moment to help SER member David Moreno Mateos with his work to investigate ways to restore wetlands so that they will be able to store carbon long term at the same rates as undisturbed ones. In the last 50 years, many degraded wetlands have been restored, but it is still unclear if they accumulate carbon as they did before degradation.

Canada: Tsolum River conservation group honoured by Pacific Salmon Foundation
The Tsolum River Restoration Society has received the 2012 Pacific Salmon Foundation's Hungerford Award. The Tsolum River Restoration Society has been on the forefront of cleaning and restoring the river that was named British Columbia's "most threatened" river in 1999.

Map of Life goes live
An interactive resource for global biodiversity analysis 'Map of Life' has launched, promising a new era in the visualization of species distributions. Map of Life will soon allow users to add or update species data, thereby becoming the first two-way portal of biodiversity information.

WWF Living Planet Report: Monitoring Global Biodiversity
 Twenty years on from the Rio Earth summit, the environment of the planet is getting worse not better, according to a report from WWF.

US: NOAA- Six Fish Populations Restored to Healthy Levels in the US
 NOAA has released its annual report, stating that a record six fish populations have been rebuilt to healthy levels in 2011. This brings the number of rebuilt US marine fish populations to 27 since the start of the 21st century, showing that great strides have been made to end overfishing thanks to all interested parties.

Biodiversity loss ranks with climate change and pollution in terms of impacts to environment
A recent study published in Nature by an international research team working at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) has found that loss of biodiversity impacts the environment as significantly as climate change and pollution.

Michigan: Beyond kayaking- Campaign to bring back the rapids in the Grand River expands
Leaders of the grassroots group said their campaign has grown beyond its kayaking roots to become a full-fledged campaign to restore the river to its original state. The new emphasis comes in the wake of a $50,000 engineering study recently conducted of the riverbed, below and above the Fourth Street Dam.

Michigan: Controversial restoration of Malletts Creek 'substantially complete'
A multi-million dollar environmental restoration project rife with controversy and bad luck has wrapped up in part of the Malletts Creek drain. Work began in September to prevent stream bank erosion and lessen the flow of sediments along 1.5 miles of the waterway as a part of an overall plan to decrease phosphorus loading into the Huron River, as a part of a DEQ mandate.

Florida: Coral goes mobile off Big Pine Key
Scientists have begun transplanting up to 10,000 nursery grown staghorn and elkhorn corals to degraded reefs in Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the largest marine restoration project of its kind.

Washington: Work begins to remove dike, restore estuary
The Nature Conservancy, who owns more than 4,000 acres of tidelands in Port Susan, has begun work on a project to remove an earthen dike that seals off the bay from 150 acres of former estuary. The $4 million project is expected to be finished in October. The second part of the project involves rebuilding another dike to the east to serve as the new boundary between the bay and adjoining farmland.

Guam: Battling the brown tree snake 
The US territory, in the western Pacific, is only 50km (30 miles) long and 10km wide, but it is packed with two million snakes. But the biggest impact has been on the wildlife - it has been decimated. One effort has involved air-dropping mice that have been laced with poison - acetaminophen - and fitted with parachutes out of helicopters.

California: Group Wins Grant To Fix Up Urban Canyons
A long-running campaign to improve the visibility of San Diego's network of canyons got a big boost last week from a state grant that will help restore the ecological function of four canyons and link them with a trail in City Heights. The 5-mile City Heights Canyon Loop Trail will connect the urban streetscape to about 90 acres of natural landscape in Hollywood.

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: 20 Million Available from EPA- Due May 24, 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it is requesting applications from states, municipalities, tribes, universities and nonprofit organizations for new projects to restore and protect the Great Lakes. EPA will distribute approximately $20 million through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant program during Fiscal Year 2012.

US: Chesapeake Bay Trust Restoration Grant Programs- Due July 6, 2012
The Restoration Grant Program supports projects that provide accessible funds to organizations and agencies for demonstration-scale, community-based, on-the-ground restoration projects. Approximately $500,000 is available for the 2012-13 Restoration Grant Program. Applicants for projects identified in or based on a watershed plan may request up to $50,000. Applicants for projects not identified in or based on a watershed plan may request up to $25,000.

UK: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- Small Grants 2012
Through the Bentham-Moxon Trust, Kew Gardens (UK) makes 30 to 40 small grants per year to botanists and horticulturalists for plant collection and field research; international visits or work at Kew; travel and conferences; and other project support. Preference is for grants that involve a developing country. The closing date for applications is 30 September 2012.

Australia: The Endeavour Awards 
The Endeavor Award is the Australian Government's internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program providing opportunities for citizens of the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia. Awards are also available for Australians to undertake study, research and professional development abroad. 

New Hampshire: Grant Funding for Wetlands Restoration and Drinking Water Protection
The Aquatic Resource Mitigation Fund grants are available for eligible wetland restoration, land protection or habitat improvement projects; and drinking water supply protection grants are available for lands in the southern I-93 corridor and Lake Massabesic Watershed. Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Fund payments are collected according to nine service areas.

US: Emergency Forest Restoration Program
USDA Farm Service Agency's (FSA) Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) provides payments to eligible owners of nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) land in order to carry out emergency measures to restore land damaged by a natural disaster.

Earth Island Institute: Supporting community-based wetland restoration initiatives
Through the Small Grants Program, Earth Island Institute has been able to support locally based restoration efforts to do just that. Small grassroots efforts to restore the coastal habitats of Southern California, which have been depleted by an astounding 98%, have been slowly working to bring our wetlands back from the brink of extinction. By supporting and empowering the new restoration leaders, we ensure our collective success in restoring some of the earth's most fragile ecosystems.

The Gulf of Mexico Foundation's Community-based Restoration Partnership has reached a milestone by providing grants for now more than 80 different projects in coastal areas throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Restoring a total of more than 15,000 acres over the past decade, these CRP projects have improved a wide variety of habitat types, including coastal dunes, coral reefs, oyster reefs, marshes, seagrass beds, mangrove forests and artificial reefs. Funding from NOAA and EPA help make it possible for the GMF to provide more than $3 million to projects, leveraging an additional $5.5 million in non-federal support from project partners. The GMF will be offering a new round of CRP funding for 2012. Visit our website for more information on the upcoming funding opportunity.

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

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.

 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.