Friday, May 2, 2008

Stream Restoration News for May 2, 2008

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has announced the expansion of my stream restoration alma mater--the Maryland Conservation Corps (MCC) – the state’s award winning AmeriCorps program– to include a summer job program for underserved and court-involved youth The program maintains the state's parks, provides environmental education programming, and performs ecosystem restoration and management throughout the state. My year in MCC got me fascinated by stream restoration and made me want to go to grad school to learn more.

Stocking of baby Atlantic Salmon in New Hampshire's Upper Pemigewasset River

Engineering for man: shaping the Mississippi River

New reefs will help sturgeon thrive again in Detroit River, MI

The Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed House Memorial 1131, sponsored by Rep. Gayle Harrell, (R) Port St. Lucie, sending a strong message to the Congress of the United States, urging Congress to fully fund the implementation of the Indian River Lagoon South Restoration Project, the first phase of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), as authorized in the Water Resources Development Act of 2007

It seems almost unbelievable: A slender, 3-foot-long, three-year-old rainbow trout recently swam from Montana’s Clark Fork River to spawning grounds in the Big Blackfoot River. The trout is the first in more than 100 years to heed the ancient call to ascend beyond the confluence of these rivers.

A nice diary on salmon restoration and dam removal on Daily Kos of all places

Extraordinary effort to save the endangered Barrens topminnow in Tennessee

An assembly of the nation’s leading authorities on aquatic conservation unveiled the 2008 “10 Waters to Watch” list, a collection of rivers, streams and shores that will be cleaner and healthier habitats for the many fish and wildlife species and people who call these areas home

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