Monday, September 22, 2008

Stream Restoration News for September 22, 2008

Last week, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain offered a rare moment of consensus: They agreed that mountaintop removal coal mining should be stopped Given the number of laughably bad "stream restoration" projects being done in the name of mitigation for mountaintop removal/valley fill, this is a stream restoration issue.

I can't remember if I mentioned this previously, but the USGS came out earlier this month with a study showing that nearly 40 percent of freshwater fish species in North America are in peril. Truth and Progress has some nice perspective.

The South Florida Water Management District is taking steps to strengthen the public process and safeguard tax dollars while negotiating the potential acquisition of the land and assets of U.S. Sugar Corp. in an historic effort to revive and restore the Everglades

The third of four stages of restoration of the Kissimmee River by the USACE is scheduled to begin this week and be completed by 2011

The eastern Idaho-based Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are joining four American Indian tribes in the Columbia River corridor, two states and three federal agencies in an agreement designed to improve fish runs in the Pacific Northwest

Questions about downstream impacts of sediment released by the removal of Milltown Dam on the Clark Fork River near Missoula, MT, as part of the cleanup of the nation's largest Superfund site

Ground broken on large restoration project on Nevada's Truckee River

The next time you have a connecting flight in Atlanta you can visit the airport's wetland mitigation site

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