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1 | 2 | 3 | NextTimber Waiver for Non-Federal Lands 1 Citation Timber ? Forestry and Fish Folk Below ? is a summary of outcomes (from Bob Klamt ) and issues (with Background below that) of the Timber Waiver for Non-Federal lands. The waiver went through ? mostly as written. This sets new guidelines, under the Waiver, for Timber Operations (including NTMPs). This helps keeps stands in place that help fish and forestry values (also enforcing Threatened and Impaired Rules). Concerned parties, while reviewing timber plans, should not hesitate to bring is, technorati.com
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Take Your Budding Wildlife Biologist to the Cheyenne Bottoms! 1 Citation Group of migrating pelicans at Cheyenne Bottoms, 2004. Photo by Kansas Geological Survey. Kansas Wetlands Education Center Children?s summer programs are designed for children ages four through sixth grades. These one-hour programs are offered at no charge with age breakdowns as follows: *Ages 4-7: 10:30-11:30 a.m. *Ages 8-12: 2-3 p.m. Programs include lots of hands-on activities with trips outside if possible. Please dress children, technorati.com
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Views from the Blog-o-sphere: the Wetlander?s Pick of the Posts 1 Citation Uganda: Conserving Wetlands to Eradicate Poverty By Joseph Miti ? The Monitor - 24 June 2009 For a long time, wetlands in Uganda were condemned and seen as dangerous habitat that provide breeding ground for deadly reptiles, animals and insects such as the anopheles mosquito that causes malaria. This perception, however, placed wetlands under great danger as people launched war against them. Large chunks of wetlands countrywide especi, technorati.com
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Dams limit wetland restoration in Mississippi Delta 1 Citation Cornelia Dean in the New York Times writes Dams Are Thwarting Louisiana Marsh Restoration, Study Says. She describes recent research by Michael Blum and Harry Roberts Drowning of the Mississippi Delta due to insufficient sediment supply and global sea-level rise (doi:10.1038/ngeo553) that estimates that dams have reduced sediment outflows by 50% reducing the potential , technorati.com
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1 Citation The nation?s wildlife refuges are among the most important components of our conservation system. In many of the locales where they are located, they are a last bastion against creeping development, and provide numbers of birds and other animals a place to nest and live their lives protected from the vagaries of encroaching human civilization. Unfortunately, not even their protected status is a complete protection. Citing ?effects of climate change as well as negative side-effects of attempts, technorati.com
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Clean Water Restoration Act- Federal Expansion or Restoring Protections? 1 Citation On June 18th the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee , on a vote of 12-7, passed the amended version of the Clean Water Restoration Act. The proposal is seen by some as an attempt to fix a major hole in the Clean Water Act. Others see it as a major extension of federal regulation. I see it as a State's rights issue... The debate over the bill has centered on whether federal jurisdiction should cover essentially all streams and wetlands. ( for a discussion of the jurisdiction issu, technorati.com
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Mangrove-dependent animals globally threatened 1 Citation Science Daily : Substantial numbers of terrestrial vertebrates are restricted to mangrove forests. Many of these specialized species are listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Prospects for mangrove-restricted animals are bleak, because more than two percent of mangrove forests are lost each year. More than 40 percent of a sample of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds that are restricted to mangrove ecosystems are globally threatened with extinction, technorati.com
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Can Wetlands Save Agriculture? 1 Citation Can Wetlands Save Agriculture? Scientists predict climate change will do a lot of things, but for water and wetlands there are three major areas of concern: sea level rise, drought, and larger natural hazard events (floods, hurricanes, etc.). These changes will lead to loss or migration of wetlands along with the plants and animals associated with them. For example, drought may lead to the disappearance of parts of the prairie potholes and waterfowl population threatening the breeding gro, technorati.com
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PUB (Singapore) launches Water Design Guidelines for developments 1 Citation PUB reports The ABC Waters Design Guidelines has been launched by Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Amy Khor, on 25 June 2009. It is a document to introduce PUB?s ABC Waters Programme (a strategic programme aims to transform our drains, canals and reservoirs into beautiful, vibrant and flowing streams, rivers , technorati.com
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1 Citation Up and out by 6:30 a.m. I wanted to catch early morning light on Lake Juniper. It really is a lovely time of day. Returned to the cabin for breakfast with my love, then we picked up the golf cart. Because it's the golf course's slow time, we were given full run :) I love golf course scenery. The park's literature said beavers lived along the right side of the 15th fairway so we checked it out. We walked in the woods off the right side and came upon a tree with colorful fungus and, technorati.com
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