Lots of ongiong discussion of the announced deal between the state of Florida and US Sugar to acquire a large amount of land for Everglades restoration: Everglades land deal may reduce need for engineered restoration solutions (Sun-Sentinel blog), Healing Florida's River of Grass (BBC), Everglades deal a work in progress (Herald-Tribune) , Sweet deal for the Everglades (Pensacola News Journal)
Continued discussion of Monday's New York Times story on restoration: Friends of the Hylebos Wetlands, The Erie Hiker, and Bonneville Environmental Foundation which also links to an online only article about the scientists Walter and Merritts who wrote the Science paper showing that our idea of "natural channel form" in the Eastern US is shaped largely by sedimented mill ponds. I knew Walter and Merritts were married, but didn't realize they got married as a results of working together on this study.
By removing bulkheads, property owners and governments are creating fish-friendly shorelines in Washington state
Turning a gravel pit into a riparian preserve near Vail, CO
Wetlands helped limit Gurnee, IL flooding
Relocating Caspian tern nesting grounds to save Columbia River salmon
A review of the book Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers looks interesting
Unfortunate news for Gulf Coast restoration: Coastal highway projects could receive a portion of federal oil-and-gas money being funneled to Louisiana for coastal protection under a bill recently passed by the state Legislature
The mitigation methods put forward by the Trump Organisation to combat the negative impacts of its proposed £1billion golf resort in Aberdennshire, UK would be no more than “a gardening exercise”, a sand dune specialist claimed yesterday Blog coverage by The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Quote for the win: "Mr Rooney said the recreating of wetland areas in mitigation would be so artificial they might as well have garden gnomes around them"
Friday, June 27, 2008
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