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SER in the News
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SER2013 Call for Proposals Now Open!
The Call for Proposals for Symposia, Workshops, and Training Courses for SER's 5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration is now open. If you would like to contribute to the SER2013 scientific program, you can submit a proposal to organize a group of presenters around a special topic or theme, lead an interactive workshop, or run a training course in conjunction with the conference. We encourage you to review the call and submit a proposal by clicking here.
NEW SER Book: Tidal Marsh Restoration- A Synthesis of Science and Practice
Tidal Marsh Restoration by Charles T. Roman and David M. Burdick is the latest title in the SER-Island Press book series The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration. The book provides the scientific foundation and practical guidance necessary for coastal zone stewards to initiate salt marsh tidal restoration programs. Compiling a synthesizes and interpretation of the current state of knowledge on the science and practice of salt marsh restoration, Tidal Marsh Restoration is an essential work for managers, planners, regulators, environmental and engineering consultants, and others engaged in planning, designing, and implementing projects or programs aimed at restoring tidal flow to tide-restricted or diked salt marshes.
Don't forget: SER Members receive a 25% off ALL Island Press book purchases. Contact caroline@ser.org for details! |
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People in the News
Louisiana: Exhibit To Reveal Residents' Reasons for Restoration
Local Louisiana non-profit, Bayou Grace, has been out in the communities of Louisiana for the last two years asking people to write down why they think coastal Louisiana should be restored. Then they had each person take a photo with their hand written reasoning. They surveyed over 600 people from 2 years old to 87 years old. Next month, a collection of photos from the project will be put on display at the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum, 7910 Park Ave., Houma. The exhibit will run through November.
Colorado: New Belgium Brewingis Restoring Forest Health to Save the Beer!
Think of the High Park Fire restoration efforts in terms of beer. Runoff from the burn area is likely to alter the flavor of tap water taken from the Poudre River, and the beer brewing process isn't able to filter those flavors out of your Fat Tire. The restoration of the High Park Fire burn area is critical to the brewery's future so they joined the High Park Fire Restoration Coalition. The coalition, which also includes Colorado State University, Trout Unlimited, Poudre Wilderness Volunteers and other organizations, will embark on a years-long effort to stabilize the soil in the burn area, reseed the forest, restore trails and research post-wildfire ecological recovery.
Oregon: REI Volunteers to Tackle Medford Stream Restoration Sunday
Working with the Ashland-based Lomakatsi Restoration Project, the REI volunteers will help restore a 1,700-foot section of the stream in downtown Medford. REI has given a $10,000 grant to Lomakatsi, a nonprofit group dedicated to ecological restoration projects, to support the group's efforts to restore the stream near Spencer Street. |
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New Books & Articles
River Wiki- Restoring Europe's Rivers
River Wiki is a tool for sharing best practices and lessons learn for policy makers, practitioners and researcher of river restoration. It is an interactive source of information on ricer restoration schemes around Europe which works similar to Wikipedia.
The Ecosystem Promise
The Ecosystem Promise is the first international book for general public about payments for ecosystem services (PES). This book explain the values of ecosystems and the benefits of ecosystem services through visions from top scientists, business case example of best practices of nature restoration and examples of how nature conservation and restoration contribute to water supplies, food security, poverty alleviation, and new jobs.
Plants need A 'New Deal' To Stem Their Decline, Warns Kew Director
People around the world need to embrace a "new deal" to recognize the economic, health and environmental benefits of plants, according to the outgoing director of Kew Gardens in London. A fifth of the planet's plant species are in danger of extinction within the next century, said Prof Stephen Hopper in an exclusive interview with the Guardian, and governments around the world needed to make firm plans to reverse the decline. Hopper said there were reasons to be optimistic, because people and institutions around the world had already demonstrated that conservation and restoration programs could work in turning the tide against ecological degradation. All that was needed was to ramp up the speed and scale of the efforts. |
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Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
Oregon: Habitat Restoration Creates Jobs, Boosts Local Economies
Ecotrust released data on August 23rd that demonstrates how watershed and fish habitat restoration in Oregon creates jobs. Ecotrust found that restoration projects generated $977.5 million in economic activity and as many as 6,483 jobs between 2001 and 2010. A recent national study published in Marine Policy analyzing job creation and other economic impacts from NOAA restoration projects found that an average of 17 jobs were created for $1 million invested. That rate of job creation is significantly higher than other industries, including coal, natural gas, or road and bridge construction. To read the full report, Click Here. |
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
(VIDEO) United Nations - Land Use and Adaptation - Traditional Knowledge and Climate Science series
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Europe: Status Quo and Missing Links of Empirical Evidence
The last decade has shown an increasing interest in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) as a source of information for environmental policy and management. In particular, the newly established Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) intends to complement scientific knowledge by consideration of the rich diversity of local and traditional ecological knowledge around the world to inform policy processes in more meaningful ways. Many empirical studies have been carried out in indigenous communities in developing countries, exhibiting specific traits of culture, history and exposure to the environment. In contrast, evidence on TEK in developed countries with more homogenous populations and fewer indigenous communities is scant, which presents a major barrier to the consideration of TEK in environmental policy processes. |
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Agro-Ecology
Building on Strength: Trees For Food Security Project Launched In Rwanda
A new agroforestry project in Rwanda will apply trees on farms to further bolster the country's gains in
achieving long-term food security. On 9th August, Rwanda's Natural Resources Management Minister Hon. Stanislas Kamanzi joined 55 project team members to launch the new initiative, Trees for Food Security. The project's main aim will be to promote "best fit" agroforestry methods and while doing so, gather knowledge that can be modeled to fit multiple agroecologies. Indeed, the knowledge gained in Rwanda will be applied to similar areas of Burundi and Uganda during the project's 3rd & 4th years.
Success of Agroforestry in North Korea
After the collapse of the socialist bloc in 1989 and the lack of subsidies for agriculture in North Korea, hunger has spread into rural areas. To further up-scale agroforestry, a manual on Agroforestry will soon be published. Work is underway on a forestry policy for the management of sloping lands and an inventory of agroforestry. In a country where good news is scarce pioneering projects will aim to restore severely degraded sloping landscapes will provide food to communities on these slopes.
Ohio: Ottawa Co. Tour Shows Sustainable Farm Tactics
On Jerry Whipple's farm in Ottawa County, innovative conservation techniques meld with an old-time farm feel, a combination that agricultural and environmental experts say is key to the restoration and health of Lake Erie. On August 22nd, the 3rd generation farmer shared his practices publicly during a farm tour - which include no-till farming, the installation of drainways and filter strips, and the use of soil and pH mapping machinery - as part of an event held by the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition to show the results of restoration efforts. |
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Forest Restoration
The American chestnut tree once thrived in the eastern half of the United States, but in the early 1900s, a fungus brought over to the United States on trees imported from Asia began infecting the American chestnut. As scientists work to develop a hybrid that is resistant to the fungus, Rutgers ecologists are playing a role in the multistate effort to reintroduce the American chestnut in the forest through their work at Duke Farms, a 2,700-acre estate in Somerset County. "The fungus spread like crazy, and what was one of the most valuable trees in eastern North America became like the Jedi knights: extinct,'' said Steven Handel, a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers.
Whether the 33,000-acre fire scar in the Lost Pines will become a pine forest again remains an open question, and the answer rests largely on whether landowners decide to participate in the most ambitious reforestation effort Central Texas has seen. Putting the forest right again will require millions of dollars, millions of pine seedlings, years of planting - and perhaps most important, cooperation from more than 3,000 landowners.
The California Tahoe Conservancy has just released a report on the outcomes of active restoration of 40 acres of Conservancy lands where all trees were killed by the 2007 Angora fire in South Lake Tahoe. That fire burned 3,100 forested acres. Post-fire Conservancy goals were to re-establish a native forest, reduce hazards posed by dead trees, and avoid water quality impacts. The report's authors estimate this active approach has hastened the return to a forested condition in the area by about 60 years. Landowners looking for guidance on post-fire forest management are encouraged to download the free UC Cooperative Extension publication "Recovering from Wildfire: A Guide for California Landowners".
Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration projects like the Trail Creek bridge underwrite most of the activity in a big swath of western Montana known as the Southwest Crown of the Continent. In addition, CFLR funds also have redesigned roads, replaced culverts, killed noxious weeds, thinned forests and funded U.S. Forest Service partnerships with almost 20 private organizations, from conservation groups to snowmobile clubs. It's also alarmed other environmental groups who argue collaboration simply gives the Forest Service cover to keep chopping down trees while paying lip service to wildlife and restoration efforts.
As part of their continued contribution to the development of the forest and The Gambia's environment, the Association of the Wood Re-exporters and Forest Users in The Gambia recently presented D15,000 to the department of forestry for the purchase of seedling for the restoration of The Gambia's forests. |
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Wetland Restoration
Wetland Technology Could Ease Pakistan's Water Woes
For farmer Asadullah Kerio, water shortages are a thing of the past. Since 2010, he has been irrigating his land with treated wastewater from a nearby 'constructed wetland' in Majeed Keerio village in Shaheed Benazirabad district, some 271 km (168 miles) northeast of Karachi. Constructed Wetland (CW) is a low-cost, biological wastewater treatment technology designed to mimic processes found in natural wetland ecosystems, according to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), which has provided technological support for the project. The shallow basin of the wetland is filled with a filter material, usually sand or gravel, and planted with vegetation tolerant of saturated conditions. Domestic wastewater accumulates in a pond that feeds it into the basin through an inlet-outlet system. |
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River & Watershed Restoration
Jordan: A Last Ditch Effort to Rescue the River Jordan
Once a mighty river, the Jordan is now heavily polluted, reduced to a mere trickle. Local efforts to rehabilitate the River Jordan have long since dried up. Now the international community is turning to Friends of the Earth Middle East, an independent NGO, in a last ditch effort to save the ecosystem. The new restoration plan must balance both political and environmental strategies. The plan must convince the governments of Israel, Jordan, and Syria to release more than 400 million cubic meters of water per year, all while considering future possible borders.
India: Plan To Restore Pachnada Health
Yamuna, the largest tributary of the Ganga river, is all set to get an "eco health" revamp in the region, courtesy UK-based Thames River Restoration Trust (TRRT) and a number of local organizations working in the field of eco-restoration of waterbodies. WWF India has also been working to help restore the lower Yamuna to benefit the people and wildlife as part of the "Thames and Ganges Twinning Partnership". Elaborating on the activities, Sita Ram Taigor, said: "The actions include training local people in basic river and catchment monitoring techniques, environmental education of school children and providing sustainable energy use techniques at the local level."
Oregon: Shady Deal Cools the Rogue River & Earns National Attention as Water Quality Model
It was a costly choice, either way. To improve endangered salmon habitat, Medford's wastewater treatment plant was required by the state Department of Environmental Quality to reduce the temperature of water it released to the Rogue River. In 2010, an engineer working for the city approached Portland's Freshwater Trust to ask about using streamside habitat restoration as a substitute for concrete and steel capital projects. Planting trees, in other words, to accomplish the river cooling mandated by the DEQ's new standards. It's called "water quality trading," and its DEQ approval came only after Freshwater Trust and a fellow non-profit, the Willamette Partnership, calculated and quantified the benefit of shade. The solution is being hailed as a national model, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture just announced a $1.5 million grant that will coordinate similar work in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
Mississippi: Project To Restore Islands Finished After 3 Decades
The habitat rehabilitation and enhancement project in the Mississippi River's Pool 8 is complete after nearly three decades of work and $500 million in funding. The project area covers 4,000 acres in the backwaters south of Brownsville and Stoddard, Wis., and includes 22 islands, three breakwaters and an off-shore rock mound. Crews restored many of the natural islands that had either eroded or disappeared over the past 40 years.
Florida: Water Woes
A restoration plan for Columbia County's Ichetucknee Springs says officials charged with managing area water don't have enough information to be effective and the regulatory process used by the agency responsible for water quality is too slow. In 2010, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) funded a three-year project to write a restoration plan, but because of state funding cuts, the working group dismantled in June 2011. The Florida Springs Institute volunteered to complete the final report.
California: Climate change spawns salmon dilemma for San Joaquin River
Skeptical farmers often ask a big key question about the $2 billion revival of the San Joaquin River and salmon runs: How can cold-water salmon possibly survive here as the climate heats up the river? And prominent biologists reply that the San Joaquin will be an ideal place for salmon in the future. But for years, nobody has been able to settle that debate with science. Now, using a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant, the University of California at Merced is working on at least part of the answer -- a profile of the future San Joaquin River. The study will guide authorities who manage reservoirs, recreation areas and hydroelectric lakes as the climate warms. It also will give farm water leaders and districts new insights on the timing of snowmelt decades from now. |
Lake Restoration
Michigan: USGS Celebrates Success of Artificial Habitat for Lake Sturgeon
Officials with the U.S. Geologic Survey didn't have to wait long to see if their project - to create an artificial habitat for lake sturgeon - would work. This spring, even before the underwater reef project was complete, the massive fish knows as "the gentle giants" began moving in. A partnership between federal, state and private entities came together earlier this year to begin work on boosting native fish populations as part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, started in 2010. Sturgeon are among the better-known species in Lake Huron and St. Clair, distinctive for their size. The fish can reach nine feet in length and weigh well over 300 pounds.
Iowa: Fish Harvest, Salvage Part of Black Hawk Lake Restoration
A fish harvest by commercial anglers this week will be part of a project to remove Black Hawk Lake at Lake View from the state's Impaired Waters List. The lake is on the list due to algae, turbidity and bacteria. A major watershed and lake improvement restoration project is in the initial implementation phase. The restoration project is designed to improve the water quality and clarity of the lake. To this end, local landowners, stakeholders and others have made great advances in reducing the amount of sediment and nutrient loading into the lake. |
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Coastal & Marine Restoration
Dubai: New Pseudo Reef Sunk at Jebel Ali
Threatened marine life in UAE waters will benefit from a new artificial reef installed yesterday near a seawall off the port of Jebel Ali, said project overseers Atlantis. Large circular sections constructed from recycled plastic were lifted with great care from a crane barge into Gulf waters and will provide the foundation for relocated coral propagation to grow and multiply. Atlantis has since last year been creating new underwater reef areas to help marine life cope with lost habitat due to development, pollution and overfishing.
Australia: Funding Cut Threatens Plan to Restore Fish Populations
A 50-year strategy to restore native fish populations across the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia is on the chopping block after state government officials decided to wind back its funding next year. The native fish strategy has been in place for almost 10 years and is one of the most successful and loved river programs. Conservationists, irrigators, and anglers are looking at ways to ensure its future. The strategy aims to restore native fish populations - including iconic species such as the Murray cod and Macquarie perch - to 60 per cent of numbers before European settlement. In recent years populations have been estimated to be around 10 per cent.
New York: Stony Brook Takes on $3M Project to Restore Shinnecock Bay
The Stony Brook Southampton School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) is taking an on ambitious project to restore the ecological health of a long-troubled Southampton bay, with the aid of $3 million in grants announced. Donated by the Laurie Landeau Foundation and Simons Foundation, the millions will enable SoMAS marine scientists to carry out the first phase of the project, which includes planting eelgrass beds and seeding shellfish in the areas of the bay where they will be most likely to flourish.
US: Increased Sediment Delivered as Susquehanna Reservoirs near Sediment Capacity
Reservoirs near the mouth of the Susquehanna River just above Chesapeake Bay are nearly at capacity in their ability to trap sediment. As a result, large storms are already delivering increasingly more suspended sediment and nutrients to the Bay, which may negatively impact restoration efforts.
New York's New Environmental 'Hero': The Oyster
On a summer morning, marine biologist Ray Grizzle reaches into the waters of the Bronx River estuary and pulls up an oyster. The 2-year-old female is "good and healthy." Oyster-tecture is a 21st-century approach to creating new waterfront infrastructures where long-gone shellfish can be brought back. Under Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey banned oyster restoration in 2010 in waters classified as contaminated for shellfish, citing public health. In New York City, oyster restoration projects were started about seven years ago, with the city Department of Parks initiating the one in the Bronx - a 30-foot-long artificial reef made of rubble, old shells and hundreds of mollusks.
Florida: Beautiful Beaches Come With Hefty Price Tag, Other Costs, In St. Lucie County
Most property owners on this county's southernmost beach cast straw ballots this spring, asking county commissioners to tax them for nearly one-quarter the cost of an $11.7 million beach restoration project set to begin this winter. The project is only the latest in a decades-long, and nearly $172 million, effort to protect property from the encroaching ocean in Treasure Coasts three counties. Now conservationists fear beaches are being built at the expense of burying nearshore natural habitats. Most of what has been spent on St. Lucie beaches has been to replace sand directly south of the inlet - $37.7 million since 1999. |
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Extractive Industries
Florida: Mosaic Co. Environmental Project to Revive Ecological Disaster Area
In September 2004, hurricane-whipped winds churned up waves of water atop a phosphate gypsum stack in Riverview. The waves opened a gap in the surrounding dike, spilling 65 million gallons of acidic wastewater into Tampa Bay. Eight years later, Mosaic Co., the successor of Cargill, is making amends for the damage with a series of environmental restoration projects designed to leave mangroves, wetlands and the surrounding waters in better shape than they were before the spill. Mosaic agreed to the projects in a court-approved consent order, along with federal and state agencies and the Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission. |
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Urban Restoration
With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Green Infrastructure
From Seattle to Sweden, an ever-growing number of city and regional governments are using roof gardens, specially designed wetlands, and other forms of "green infrastructure" to rein in pollution from countless diffuse sources - and to save money.
UK: Can City Cemeteries Be Nature Reserves?
A sea of gravestones etched with the names of lost loved ones might not be what you would picture when you imagine a nature reserve. But Manchester City Council plans to give Southern Cemetery in south Manchester, which is the largest cemetery in the UK, that official title. According to Natural England, it will be one of just 10 graveyard nature reserves in England. And it is part of a bigger plan in Manchester to put cemeteries "on the map" for nature-loving urbanites. |
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Get Involved
Special Issue of Forests: "Forest Restoration and Regeneration"-Deadline February 2013
Fundamentos de la Restauración Ecológica -- New Online Course for Spanish Speakers (fecha límite 17 de agosto de 2012)
SER-Europe: The 8th European Conference on Ecological Restoration-Sept. 9-14
Illinois: Tallgrass Prairie Restoration in the 21st Century- Sept. 13-14
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Schulenberg Prairie Restoration, The Morton Arboretum is convening a symposium tall grass prairie restoration.
Colorado: High Park Fire: From Science to Action & Recovery- Sept. 10
This all-day, FREE, symposium presented by the Warner College of Natural Resources will provide attendees with a science-based understanding of the High Park Fire, its impacts on the environment, and actions for restoration and recovery.
Great Lakes Restoration Conference/Areas of Concern Annual Meeting- Sept. 11-14
Veracruz: Diplomado en Restauración del Bosque de Niebla 2012- Sept 19
Certificate Course in Cloud Forest Restoration- Pre-Registration for 2012 is now Open.
Idaho: East or West: Water Defines Us All- Sept. 19-21
SER-Texas: 2012 Annual TxSER Conference- Call for Papers! Due Sept. 28
SER-Texas will hold its conference in Weslaco, Texas November 2-4, 2012.
EcoSummit 2012-Ecological Sustainability- Sept. 30- Oct. 5
Stream Restoration in the Southeast: Innovations for Ecology- Oct. 15-18
Intermountain Center for River Restoration and Rehabilitation Events- Oct. 17 & 22
6th 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
New Mexico: National Native Seed Conference- April 9-12, 2013
SER2013: 5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration- October 6-11, 2013
SER will hold its 5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, on October 6-11, 2013. This event marks the 25th Anniversary of SER and will celebrate the conference theme of "Reflections on the Past, Directions for the Future."
2012 Conference Listing on the Global Restoration Network (GRN) |
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Funding Opportunities
BLM UT Watershed Restoration Science Planning and Implementation-Closes Sept. 7, 2012
The Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) would like to work cooperatively with a partner to develop and implement watershed restoration across BLM lands. This would include but not be limited to watershed assessment, aquatic habitat inventories and assessments, hydrologic and geomorphic analysis, riparian area delineation, riparian vegetation mapping, aquatic species sampling, development and implementation of science based restoration plans, and development and implementation of monitoring plans.
US: Restoring New Mexico - Healthy Woodlands and Watersheds- Closes Sept. 13, 2012
This program is to continue the public purpose of increasing the BLM partners capacity to conserve and restore wildlife habitat and impaired watersheds in New Mexico, develop inter-jurisdictional forest and woodland restoration projects on public, private, Tribal and state lands.
US: Botanically Sophisticated Ecological Restoration & Community Involvement- Closes Sept. 17, 2012
This agreement represents an opportunity to enter a cooperative agreement to train and employ workers in botanically sophisticated ecological restoration design, implementation, and community involvement to benefit US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) lands in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. USACE stewards natural resources by managing and restoring habitat and contributing to the recovery of endangered species. The recipient of the cooperative agreement would collaborate in these activities while providing opportunities for environmental education and natural resource management training to young professionals, primary schools, and other community members. The preferred recipient of this cooperative agreement is a non-Federal or nonprofit organization whose goals substantially overlap the Environmental Stewardship mission of USACE.
Minnesota: Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program Fall Funding Cycle- Closes Sept. 26, 2012
Applications for grants to help fund projects that restore, enhance or protect Minnesota's prairies, forests and wetlands through the Conservation Partners Legacy (CPL) program will be accepted beginning Wednesday, Aug. 15. Local, state and national non-profit organizations and governmental entities that want to complete conservation work that benefits habitat for fish, game and wildlife on public or permanently protected lands are eligible for funds. Three levels of project funding from the $4.6 million program are available this year. The application system will open Wednesday, Aug. 15, and close Wednesday, Sept. 26. Expedited Conservation Projects grants will be accepted continuously until May 15, 2013.
UK: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- Small Grants- Sept 30, 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.
Virginia: The Chesapeake Bay Restoration & Education- Oct 1, 2012
A legislative committee that oversees Chesapeake Bay restoration funds says nearly $372,000 is available for education and conservation efforts to benefit the bay. The Chesapeake Bay Restoration Advisory Committee says it's accepting applications for grant funding for project proposals from nonprofit conservation groups, government agencies and schools and universities. The application deadline is Oct. 1, and the state will award the grants next May and June.
California: Central Valley Project Improvement Act Habitat Restoration Program Grants- Oct 5, 2012
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation today announced the availability of over $2.2 million in grants to improve conditions for federally- imperiled species and their habitats impacted by the Central Valley Project (CVP). The 2012 grants continue 18 years of funding projects. This year, four categories of projects will be funded: land acquisition (fee title and conservation easement); habitat restoration; research; and captive breeding.
US: DEP Grants to Restore & Protect Coastal Zones in Pennsylvania- 2013 Applications Open
The Department of Environmental Protection has awarded more than $900,000 in annual coastal zone management grants to organizations dedicated to protecting and preserving Pennsylvania's coastal zones along Lake Erie and the Delaware Estuary. The agency is now accepting applications for 2013. Coastal zone management grants support programs that measure the impact of various pollution sources; improve public access; preserve habitats; and educate the public about the benefits of the state's coastal zones.
US: Conservation Reserve Program Initiative to Restore Grasslands, Wetlands and Wildlife
USDA's CRP has a 25-year legacy of successfully protecting the nation's natural resources through voluntary participation, while providing significant economic and environmental benefits to rural communities across the United States. Rather than wait for a general sign-up (the process under which most CRP acres are enrolled), producers whose land meet eligibility criteria can enroll directly in this "continuous" category at any time.
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 Funding for the 2012 cycle of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation's Community-based Restoration Partnership (CRP) is now available. The CRP has reached a milestone by providing grants for now more than 75 different projects in coastal areas throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Restoring a total of about 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.
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. |
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