Stream Restoration News for April 28, 2008

Paul Ziemkiewicz: Researcher's dirty job leads to clean streams Profile of the director of the West Virginia Water Resources Research Institute

Restoring riparian shade along some of Missouri's smaller spring-fed Ozark streams will likely benefit adult smallmouth bass growth and influence population sizes, University of Missouri researchers have found.

As coastal restoration concerns reached an all-time high after the 2005 hurricane season, Louisiana this year has missed out on a once-in-a-decade major flood event that could funnel much of the Mississippi River's fresh water and mud into the starved wetlands on the other side of the levees

On the Lehigh River (PA), shad and dams don't mix

Partners in the Penobscot River Restoration Project (ME) have been awarded a 2008 Cooperative Conservation Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior The award recognizes the unprecedented collaboration to restore 11 species of sea-run fish while rebalancing hydropower generated on the river.

Dairyland Power Cooperative has granted a conservation easement to Mississippi Valley Conservancy to permanently preserve 110 acres of Mississippi River bluffland near Alma, WI

The Animas River Stakeholders Group was recognized with the Department of the Interior's Cooperative Conservation Award today for significant improvements to water quality and aquatic habitat in Colorado's Animas River watershed The ARSG helped to bring about consensus among the diverse stakeholders on complex and costly cleanup efforts by providing a regular forum to explain the science behind decisions and organizing resources for voluntary mine reclamation.

From a waterfront park in New York's South Bronx, activist Majora Carter set out to use the 'green economy' to combat poverty Waterfront restoration and neighborhood greening as a force for social and economic change.