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DCNR Accepting Permit Applications For 2023 Regional ATV Connector Pilot Program In Northcentral PA, Riding Season Dates Set

PA Environment Daily

On April 4, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced permits for the ATV Regional Trail Connector Pilot Program in the northcentral region of the state are now available for purchase. DCNR recently revised its ATV trail policy, which lifted the moratorium on new trails that had been in place since 2003.

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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

Circle of Blue

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. ICS is not conservation in the household sense of simply using less. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue. million acres.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

In reality I debunk the unscientific claim that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction,” and make the case that our conservation concern should be focused on protecting and expanding habitat and the number of wild animals. felt that India, among others, was probably in this category. Bangladesh is today a more clear-cut example.”

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Not far away, Tim Stutzman, another conservation-minded farmer, feeds cattle and farms 2,800 acres in Morenci. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. .