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SER2013
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EcoSummit
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SER in the News
SER Announces Release of Protected Area Guidelines on Ecological Restoration
SER is pleased to announce the release of "Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas: Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices." IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas developed these guidelines in collaboration with Parks Canada, the Society for Ecological Restoration, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, and many others. This publication provides advice on underlying principles and guidelines, technical best practices, and implementation processes for restoration. Moreover, it presents case studies of on-the-ground restoration experiences in and around protected areas across the globe.
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.
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
Mexico: An Amateur Rancher Brings the Wastelands of the Southwest Back to Life
What's a Manhattan society girl to do when she finds herself living on acres of desiccated, left-for-dead earth in the Southwest? If she's Valer Austin, she rolls up her sleeves and does the miraculous-bringing it all back to lush life.
Protest tunes don't typically sound like Delta blues or Cajun music, but Tab Benoit is changing that. The Louisiana guitarist, and singer, has paired his on-stage skills with environmental activism that hits close to home. He's become a leader in the call for wetlands restoration along the Gulf Coast, an issue that receives national attention only when storms threaten or hit Louisiana, as Hurricane Isaac did last month.
At an age when most youngsters want to have fun and a happy-go-lucky life, 25-year-old Arun Krishnamurthy thinks otherwise. He founded the Environmentalist Foundation (EFI) of India, an organization that works towards conserving and restoring the ecology of local areas. With 827 volunteers and growing, the EFI works on stray animal conservation and urban bio-habitat restoration group working out of Chennai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Delhi and Kolkata. Arun talks about his organization here.
Russell E. Train, a renowned conservationist who played a central role in the creation of groundbreaking laws and effective enforcement in response to rising concerns about environmental protection in America, died on Monday at his farm in Bozman, Md. He was 92. |
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New Books & Articles
Montana: Forest Fire Research Questions the Wisdom of Prescribed Burns
Scientists are at loggerheads over whether there is an ecological advantage to thinning forests and using prescribed fire to reduce fuel for subsequent fires - or whether those methods actually diminish ecological processes and biodiversity. The approach, developed primarily as a result of tree ring studies, seeks to reconstruct the forests of the West before the 20th century, when the large-scale suppression of wildfire first occurred. Some ecologists and environmentalists, however, are challenging the Forest Service's model, saying it is based on incomplete science and is causing ecological damage.
Corporation 2020
Corporation 2020 outlines the need for a new vision and illuminates the steps that will bring it to life. From his insightful look into the dysfunction of today's corporation to a thoughtful discussion of the changes needed to craft a better corporate model, author Pavan Sukhdev offers a hopeful view of the role of business in shaping a more equitable, sustainable future. Get a free companion eBook (free until Sept. 24th) from Amazon or Barnes and Noble. (Don't forget- SER members receive a 20% discount on all Island Press books).
Ohio: Cleveland Great Lakes Restoration Projects Producing Results for People & Communities
This report is a collection of inspiring restoration projects across greater Cleveland which are helping people, environment, wildlife and economy. Lake Erie today teems with a world-class walleye fishery that generates millions of dollars from tourism and recreation. Most of the direct point-sources of pollution have been cleaned up and some of the most toxic sites have been remediated. However, Lake Erie continues to be threatened by toxic contaminants, and faces growing problems from invasive species and polluted urban runoff, which degrades water quality and harms habitat.
Can an entire landscape be altered by changes in one plant or animal gene? Interdisciplinary research says yes. A Thousand Invisible Cords follows the 30-year journey that led to that discovery, which has inspired molecular geneticists, ecologists, and restoration biologists to work together to ameliorate environmental problems facing our world. This PBS special will be airing across the US in September. |
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Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
The San Joaquin River Restoration Program will create more than 11,000 jobs in the San Joaquin Valley, according to a new study by economist Shawn Kantor of the University of California at Merced. The San Joaquin River Restoration Program was authorized by Congress as part of the federal Omnibus Land Management Act of 2009. Under the program, state and federal agencies are expected to spend more than $890 million to remove barriers, modernize levies, increase water flows and restore habitat. |
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Agro-Ecology
Smallholder farmers across East Africa have started to embrace climate-resilient farming approaches and technologies, according to new research recently published by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The study is based on a survey of over 700 farming households in four East African countries carried out by CCAFS, part of a larger effort covering 5,040 households in 252 villages across 36 sites in 12 countries in East Africa, West Africa and South Asia. It appeared online before publication in the journal Food Security. |
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Forest Restoration
A 5-year program, the Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS), to restore forest landscapes in 23 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America has demonstrated their crucial role in creating jobs and boosting incomes for local residents. In Miyun, China, for instance, local incomes increased by an estimated 50% thanks to an influx of tourists following extensive forest restoration, while the number of residents living in poverty halved to under 15%. The Beijing government has now recommended forest landscape restoration be implemented across the Miyun Watershed, which delivers 80% of Beijing's water. Similar successes were seen across many other countries where the LLS program was active.
The Florida Forest Service will receive nearly $1 million to restore thousands of acres of longleaf pines in the Florida Panhandle. Ninety million acres of longleaf pines once grew throughout the Southeast. Just a fraction of those vast forests remain because the trees were clear-cut for development in the 1920s and 1930s. The Florida Forest Service has received a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to restore roughly 59,000 acres of longleaf pine stands in the Blackwater River, Pine Log and Point Washington state forests.
The Nature Conservancy will use $350,000 in new funding to help restore the Sandhills' longleaf pine forests through controlled burns. "We expect that these projects will result in the restoration of more than 11,000 acres of longleaf pine habitat, and an additional 122,000 acres will be enhanced," said David O'Neill, director of the wildlife federation's Eastern Partnership Office. |
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Wetland Restoration
Virginia restored more wetlands than any other state in the Chesapeake Bay watershed last year. The Chesapeake Bay Program says 3,775 acres of wetlands were restored in 2011, led by Virginia which restored 1,653 acres. Maryland was second with 750 acres and New York third with 625. West Virginia restored 369 acres, Pennsylvania 254, and Delaware 123. Restoration is needed because only 5 percent of bay waters met program goals last year. The bay program says 14,795 acres were established between 1998 and 2010, nearly half the 30,000-acre restoration goal of the six bay states. |
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River & Watershed Restoration
In November, San Francisco will vote on a measure that could ultimately lead to the draining and restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley - and force the city to look elsewhere for most of its water. In 1913, Congress approved the construction of a dam and an eight-mile-long reservoir, called Hetch Hetchy, in the northwest corner of Yosemite National Park to supply cheap water to San Francisco. The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir submerged a valley often likened to Yosemite Valley in its grandeur.
Vancouver-based company Teck Resources announced today that it has come to an agreement with Colville tribes in which it admits to almost a century of pollution in the Upper Columbia River through its Trail operations. Spokesman Richard Deane said the agreement was good news for Teck and the litigation would decide what restoration, if any, is needed to restore natural resources injured by historical trail operations discharge of slag and effluent. The agreement refers to timeframe spanning from 1896-1995.
Federal fisheries managers and NOAA on September 5th proposed an ambitious new plan to save an endangered population of coho salmon on California's central coast. The wide-ranging, more than 2,000-page plan sets forth detailed restoration actions for creeks and estuaries, regulatory and policy changes and many other actions regulators said are needed to restore lost habitat and help the fish rebound.
Work to restore and beautify the Sudbury River, organized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will be paid for with money from the $3.7 million settlement reached in 1998 for mercury and other contamination from the former Nyanza Color and Chemical Company on Megunko Road in Ashland. The restoration plan will include 11 projects for the wildlife, people and landscape of the Sudbury River watershed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced.
With the Holloway fire contained, more tragic news is coming from Oregon's largest wildfire in a century: The fire destroyed decades worth of restoration work that had helped threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout rebound. Long-term impacts could include higher water temperatures in summer, lower water temperatures in winter and increased sediment from eroding soils. |
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Grassland Restoration
A Crop Dividend: Restored Bird Habitat in New Jersey
Farmers and wildlife advocates don't often see eye to eye; each can look at a field and see widely divergent possibilities. Yet by encouraging farmers to plant fields of flowers, an innovative program in New Jersey is helping to finance the rehabilitation of wildlife areas for endangered species of birds. The crop is sunflowers, and sales of sunflower seeds, bagged and sold as birdseed by the New Jersey Audubon Society, have financed the conversion of a 70-acre tract of state-owned land into a grassland habitat.
Missouri: Changing Landscapes- Despite Loss of Funding, Grassland Restoration Moves Forward
The Smithville Grassland Revitalization Project, which began in 2005, was initiated to recreate natural grassland and savanna in green spaces around Smithville Lake. To date, 310 acres of the anticipated 2,300 acres have been planted with native grasses and wildflowers through the support of multiple government and environmental entities. Funding came from a five year plan with the MDC and when the agreement ended, the project was left in funding limbo. Jasen Ballenger of Clay County Parks, however, decided the use the last funding check from the MDC to buy a native seed harvester and make his project self-sufficient. |
Lake Restoration
US & Canada Sign Great Lakes Water Quality Pact
The U.S. and Canada renewed a 40-year-old Great Lakes environmental pact Friday Sept 7th. The updated Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement binds both nations to continue a cleanup and restoration initiative begun when the freshwater seas were a symbol of ecological decay. It pledges to "restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity" of the five lakes and the portion of the St. Lawrence River on the U.S.-Canadian border.
The Chicago Botanic Garden on Tuesday unveiled the largest perennial planting in its 40-year history - a 10-month project that uses native plants to knit the soil surrounding the garden's North Lake into a firm, erosion-resistant mixture that also enhances the habitat for animal life. The experts who engineered the project at the Glencoe site say it can be a guide for similar efforts at thousands of lakes and ponds in northern Illinois that suffer from erosion.
EPA, Illinois and Local Officials Announce Major Dredging Project at Waukegan Harbor
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the State of Illinois and Waukegan officials joined forces to kick off a Superfund dredging project needed to remove the Waukegan Harbor "Area of Concern" (AOC) from a list of toxic hot spots identified in the 1987 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The EPA will remove approximately 175,000 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment from the harbor.
UK: Push To Create a Million Healthy Ponds
Details of a plan for a million healthy ponds in the UK are being announced to combat decades of neglect. The charity Pond Conservation says ponds offer more species diversity than any other habitat per square meter. But 80% of them are polluted - mostly by fertilizers and pesticides from farms, and also by run-off from streets and homes in towns and villages. It wants to create a new generation of clean ponds entirely fed by rain. |
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Coastal & Marine Restoration
On Sept. 10, President Obama signed a new Executive Order (E.O.) into law, which migrates former programs, trusts, and planning council's regarding Gulf Coast Restoration, into a new bureaucracy just days after new oil and ecological concerns spring up after the effects of hurricane Isaac. The timing of this new E.O. appears to coincide with two new events taking place in the Gulf region. First, after hurricane Isaac crashed onto New Orleans, and other regions of the Gulf Coast, oil balls and other remnants of the BP oil spill surfaced on beaches and coast lines all along the Southeast.
In the last 30 years, coral reefs have severely declined, so much so that they risk extinction within a few decades. A recent study by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) showed that less than 10% of the reef in the Caribbean is still alive today, compared to 50% in the 1970s. Inspired by the behavior of bees, Scotland's Heriot-Watt University scientists have designed new robots -coralbots - capable of repairing the coral reefs in a few days. The robots designed in Scotland work as a team, like bees, and can dive to depths over 200 meters, unlike scuba divers that now do the job.
The Salton Sea is already slowly dying. An $8.9 billion preferred alternative for sea restoration was chosen by state Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman and submitted to the Legislature in 2007. It would have created miles of barriers to make the sea one-fifth of its current size, as well as creating shallow saline and marsh habitats. That plan, however, went nowhere in the Legislature. With nowhere near the billions of dollars needed for a Salton Sea fix available, and with little political will in Sacramento and Washington for a comprehensive restoration or mitigation project, local officials are left scrambling.
Hopes are being raised for restored health of one of the most severely impacted coral reefs in the state in West Maui, with the signing Tuesday of a $3 million state and federal cost-sharing agreement to develop a watershed plan for the West Maui "Ridge to Reef" Initiative. The initiative is one of the first efforts in the state to implement a comprehensive management strategy to address impacts to coral reefs across multiple watersheds, according to a news release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Honolulu.
US: Gulf of Mexico Marine Restoration Menu Released
As decision-makers begin planning and choosing restoration priorities and projects, Ocean Conservancy and the Gulf of Mexico University Research Collaborative (GOMURC) are working to ensure the waters of the Gulf are part of the plan. The two groups convened a workshop of experts to identify a list, released today, of top restoration projects and approaches to help reverse damage from the BP oil disaster and decades of environmental degradation in offshore areas, and promote economic value of the Gulf's natural resources. |
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Wildlife Restoration
On September 14, 1987 the U.S. FWS took a giant leap forward in endangered species conservation simply by opening the pen holding a male and female pair of red wolves. The red wolf (Canis rufus) is one of the world's most endangered wild canids. In 1980, the Service declared red wolves extinct in the wild. Once common throughout the southeastern United States, red wolf populations were decimated by the 1960s due to intensive predator control programs and loss of habitat. Today, about 100 red wolves roam their native habitats in five northeastern North Carolina counties.
Montanans Voice Overwhelming Support for Restoring Bison
As wildlife managers continue work on a statewide bison-management plan, a new survey underscores overwhelming public support for restoring a herd of wild, wide-ranging bison on public land in Montana. Additionally, Montana voters specifically support restoration to the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in central Montana. 68% of Montanans support restoration of wild bison on federal or state land, while just 26% are opposed.
Galapagos Islands: Baltra Island Ecosystem Restoration Success Story
The Galapagos National Park Service (GNPS) reported yesterday that during routine ecosystem monitoring field trip to Baltra Island, its rangers discovered a new colony of blue footed boobies in full nesting and brood rearing mode. No such colony had ever been reported before. The monitoring study revealed that the colony, comprised of 315 adults, 24 juveniles, 23 chicks and 8 nests occupied an area of about 9.4 hectares (apx. 24 acres). |
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Extractive Industries
Help is being harnessed from an unlikely source to repair a damaged and desolate landscape in the White River National Forest in the mountains west of Redstone. Coal Basin is an area that was mined for decades, most recently from the 1950s until 1990. Cows were enlisted to help break up the thin layer of soil covering waste-coal piles in Coal Basin, roughly six miles from Redstone. The cows' split hooves till the hard ground and work in the seeds, while their waste provides the fertilizer. The revegetation experiment is relatively inexpensive at $10,300, in large part because the cows were enlisted to help speed the nutrient cycle and get the grass growing
Philippines: Mining Firm Starts Green Livelihood Project In Mindoro
Mining company Mindoro Nickel in cooperation with the National Greening Program of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has launched its own reforestation program dubbed the Livelihood Enhancement Agro-Forestry (LEAF) in Occidental Mindoro to prove that "responsible mining" can be done. With the battle cry "Itatanim ko, Kinabukasan ko! (I will plant, my future)," LEAF moved 1,000 residents representing 24 people's organizations from 22 barangays of Sablayan town of the province to support and participate in what the mining company called an "honest-to-goodness" livelihood and reforestation project. |
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Invasive Species
Europe: New Web Portal for Invasive Species Information
The DAISIE project website has just been re-launched, making it easier to get at free, reliable information about invasive species. Standing for Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventory for Europe, DAISIE gives a comprehensive overview of more than 12,000 alien invaders. The project started in 2005 with EU funding, and is now supported by NERC's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the Swiss Sciex program, together with a consortium of invasive species experts from all over Europe. |
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Urban Restoration
Australia: Regenerative Adelaide
An urbanizing world requires major policy initiatives to make urban resource use compatible with the world's ecosystems. Metropolitan Adelaide has adopted this agenda and is well on its way to becoming a pioneering regenerative city region. New policies by the government of South Australia on energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transport, zero waste, organic waste composting, water efficiency, wastewater irrigation of crops, peri-urban agriculture, and reforestation have taken Adelaide to the forefront of eco-friendly urban development.
Casinos, real estate and an equally distinctive hairdo - are just a sampling of what typically comes to mind when the topic is business mogul Donald Trump. A far less sexy theme, not to mention considerably less well-known, is environmental protection. After all, Somerset County's Trump National Golf Club has developed into one of the world's most eco-friendly courses since its 2004 grand opening. That reputation figures to grow stronger during the next 10 years, when a long-term partnership between the course, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the New Jersey Audubon Society will exist. Those organizations are jointly planning a sweeping habitat restoration project expected to create a permanent, welcoming home for several relatively rare species of birds. |
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Recreation & Tourism
Florida: Massive Parade of Trucks Needed to Restore Eroded Broward Beaches
Dump trucks full of sand will rumble through northern Broward County on an estimated 50,000 trips under a plan to restore eroded beaches that may begin as early as next year. The County Commission last week agreed to ask the state for help in funding the $44 million project to widen beaches from northern Fort Lauderdale to southern Pompano Beach. Environmentalists fear the project could end up burying offshore reefs, home to protected stands of staghorn coral. But coastal residents and businesses have been pressing for the restoration work for years, as they anxiously watch the surf inch closer to condominium towers, hotels and restaurants. |
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Get Involved
Florida: New Ecologist Position Open at Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologist, Inc.
Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologist, Inc., is looking to fill an entry level position for an energetic individual desiring training and knowledge in ecosystem evaluation, restoration and management, monitoring, permitting processes, mitigation and compensation measures, agency requirements, procedures and related functions. For more information contact Jennifer Chandler at jchandler@environment.com or click here.
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
North Carolina: Coastal Federation Needs Volunteers for Habitat Restoration- Sept 22
National Estuaries Day is an annual celebration that's been held on the last Saturday of September since 1988. To help celebrate North Carolina's estuaries, the Coastal Federation is recruiting volunteers for an estuarine habitat restoration event on the shores of Stump Sound. The celebration and volunteer event will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the 52-acre Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve in Holly Ridge.
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.
Vancouver: Cultivating Sustainable Agroforestry Workshop- Sept. 29
Saturday, 29 September 2012 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PDT) at the UBC Farm, Vancouver, BC.
EcoSummit 2012-Ecological Sustainability- Sept. 30- Oct. 5
Virginia: 2012 Natural Areas Conference- Oct 9-12
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
Belgium: The Potential of Agroecology: Reclaiming the Food Crisis- November 9
SER-Australasia: Inaugural Conference -Nov 28-30
Special Issue of Forests: "Forest Restoration and Regeneration"-Deadline February 2013
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
Seeking Innovative Conservation Ideas in Western North America
A private foundation is looking to support projects in western North America that break new ground, foster innovative conservation thinking, or work in areas that have received little attention. Successful projects would have significant potential impact, either directly by demonstrating important ecological benefits, or indirectly by pioneering new strategies that could be widely applicable in the conservation realm. Projects should be ambitious in scope and vision ($2-8 million), produce tangible, measurable, on-the-ground results within 3-5 years, and focus on key conservation issues. If research or planning is a significant component of the project, these must be supported by other funds. Sell them your idea today by submitting a brief description - (no more than 1 page) to: InnovativeConservation@gmail.com.
The purpose of this The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) agreement is to place spawning gravel at various sites in the Stanislaus, American and Sacramento rivers which will restore the salmonid spawning and rearing habitats.
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.
Michigan: Emergency Forest Restoration Program - October 9, 2012
The Department of Natural Resources and the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency have announced that landowners affected by the Duck Lake Fire in Michigan can sign up for the Emergency Forest Restoration Program. The application period runs through Oct. 9. According to a DNR press release, the EFRP is a "cost-share assistance program that provides payments to eligible owners of nonindustrial private forest land to help restore land damaged by a natural disaster."
American Forests Global ReLeaf Program- Applications Due October 15, 2012
American Forests is now offering grants for restoration tree planting projects as part of its Global ReLeaf program. Since 1988, Global ReLeaf has supported the planting of over 40 million trees both domestically and internationally. Global ReLeaf projects have addressed a variety of needs and issues, including restoration of wildlife habitat and watersheds, recovery from natural disasters, societal and recreational benefits, urban forest coverage, and more. American Forests is currently accepting applications for 2013 to continue this legacy of restoring areas in critical need of reforestation. Groups and qualified individuals with disabilities and other diverse groups are encouraged to apply to the reforestation grantmaking program.
NOAA: Community-based Marine Debris Removal Grant- Closes November 1, 2012
In cooperation with the NOAA Restoration Center, the NOAA Marine Debris Program offers funding that supports locally driven, community-based marine debris prevention and removal projects. These projects benefit coastal habitat, waterways, and wildlife including migratory fish. Projects awarded through this grant competition have strong on-the-ground habitat components involving the removal of marine debris and derelict fishing gear, as well as activities that provide social benefits for people and their communities in addition to long-term ecological habitat improvements for NOAA trust resources.
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 reef
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 project.
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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