The July-August issue of the National Wetlands Newsletter examines the new compensatory mitigation rules through a variety of perspectives—the agencies, a wetland mitigation banker, and environmental advocates I don't have access to this newsletter, but it might be worth trying to get, as I'm still wondering what the implications of these rules might be.
Maine seems to have a good/evil idea of how the new rules work: Maine Seeks Pre-Approval for Wetlands Destruction: Maine DOT 'Umbrella Mitigation Bank' Tries to Exploit Weakened Federal Policies
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. Dianne Feinstein Friday unveiled a $9.3 billion water bond plan, but they immediately ran into stiff resistance over proposed dams and the cost to a cash-starved state
Chop down riverside trees that provide shade for young salmon or lose millions in federal support to fix aging levees -- that's what the Army Corps of Engineers is telling King County, WA
Everglades Sugar deal might mire other efforts at restoration Also, a proposal to encourage flow south from Lake Okeechobee through the new land: A 'River of Grass' could run through the state's new land
The Chesaning dam is on its way out after a $900,000 grant through the Clean Michigan Initiative will help push funding for the Shiawassee River Restoration and removal of the dam
Restoration work will begin this summer on a warm, wide and shallow stretch of the Eagle River in Edwards, CO, an area notoriously inhospitable to fish
Farmers fear wetland mitigation banking threatens farming in Washington
Magnum Coal has agreed to give West Virginia $3.5 million and an enormous pile of love-seat-sized rocks to settle a Clean Water Act lawsuit over dumping selenium into a southern West Virginia river The enormous pile of rocks has proven controversial...
Setting the Petitcodiac River (New Brunswick) free is the right thing to do
A $12 million restoration effort in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge begins Monday as crews work to re-establish more than 21 miles of sloughs and channels in the delta between Tacoma and Olympia, WA
My favorite headline of the day: A 'ditch' runs through it: Some critics wonder whether the cleanup of the Housatonic River is doing more harm than good General Electric is charged with cleaning up their mess in this Massachusetts river, but it's not clear if what they're doing is the way to go.
Monday, July 14, 2008
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Headed to Mass. for the winter months. This housatonic restoration will give me something to do. I'll see if I can find out any inside info to report back;)
If you end up working for them, Mason, you should start a blog. Actually, I think a blog of a wandering seasonal stream tech would be pretty interesting, even if not about stream restoration.
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