Stream Restoration News for October 20, 2008

As fitting this time of year, a very political set of stream restoration stories.

Schwarzenegger signs legislation to fund the beginning of the Salton Sea restoration plan Also, A task force appointed by the governor warns that California must amend its laws and build new dams, canals and desalination plants or face economic and ecological disaster. The state must elevate environmental needs for water to a standing equal to that of human needs to restore the state's ailing water network, a report by the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force said

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign Thursday pledged to follow through on the Everglades restoration funding that the federal government so far failed to deliver Also in the Miami Herald

And Restoring Great Lakes becomes a campaign issue

Wetland Restoration and Poverty Reduction Through Ecotourism

Stream Restoration News for October 15, 2008

Worries about the impacts and efficacy of mitigation of natural gas drilling on Colorado's Roan Plateau: "energy companies can defy a lot of laws, but not the law of gravity."

The dwindling number of salmon entering the Yuba River (CA) and spawning in the last year has raised concerns from environmental groups. It also has prompted an aggregate mining company to dedicate land for the restoration of habitat for the fish.

Stream friendly dairy farming near Melbourne, Australia

California lawmakers are revisiting a San Joaquin River restoration plan even as it comes under sustained pressure over funding and how it would work

River restoration is goal of dam removal near Columbus, OH

Stream Restoration News for October 2, 2008

In a last-minute bid, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has rewritten a bill to restore the San Joaquin River so that it might avoid budgetary obstacles. Feinstein says stripping out money could ease passage of the environmentally ambitious bill

River Summit focusing on how urban impacts on the Patuxent River (MD) are affecting the oysters of Chesapeake Bay, and what to do about it.

Debate in Ottawa over priorities in restoring the Petitcodiac River

The first public hearing was held Wednesday on a far-reaching federal order that lowers flows in the Russian River (CA) and requires habitat restoration for coho salmon and steelhead

Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle has released $1,770,000 for projects on Maui, Kaua'i and O'ahu to mitigate the risk of rockfalls and restore streams that were affected by the March 2006 floods