As I feared, a number of people are spinning the Kaushal et al study I discussed last week as showing stream restoration removes nitrate, when, as I argued last week, it really shows that in one stream in Baltimore stream restoration may have increased denitrification. The problem seems to be this Science News article which in my opinion vastly overstates the potential management implications of this study--it's a long way from their results to saying we can quantify or predict the effects of any other restoration project on nitrate loading. See A DC Birding Blog and Greener Loudon
The Ithaca (NY) Town Planning board discusses wetlands protection and wind energy It appears the Ithaca Town Planning Board understands hydrology better than the US Supreme Court.
It's a good year for herring, the first in a long while, in Massachusetts Bay
Taking back Vermont's Housatonic River from General Electric
A key Senate committee last week handily approved a revised but still ambitious bill to restore the San Joaquin River Also in the Central Valley Business Times
The Port of Seattle is developing a plan to restore habitat on property it owns along the Lower Duwamish River
Conservationists in Kenya are opposing a multi-million dollar biofuels project citing threats to bird life abundant in a riverine delta area The 50,000 acre sugar cane project was meant to provide raw cane for a giant sugar milling company too but it is believed its vision was more for biofuel than food.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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