Washington Nature

MAY 23, 2024

Last week, The Nature Conservancy in Washington (TNC) and community partners celebrated a major milestone in the effort to protect Cle Elum Ridge in Kittitas County in central Washington. Ten years ago, in 2014, Plum Creek Timber owned the land comprising Cle Elum Ridge and wanted to sell.

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

First authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill, the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (“RCPP”) is a voluntary conservation program administered by the. The post Building Blocks: The Basics of the RCPP appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

ESA has honored past award recipients for policy work that included: wildlife conservation green urban renewal initiatives stream, river & lake restoration ESA’s 2024 Annual Meeting will take place in Long Beach, California. degrees Celsius. 2019 Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky Congressman John Yarmuth, U.S. degrees Celsius.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2024

The proposal is in direct contradiction to Pennsylvania’s commitments under the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Agreement. Gone would be carbon sequestering forests, prime farmland, and conservation lands. Cuffs Run, home to naturally reproducing brook trout, would be devastated.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million mid-year budget freeze cuts additional resources for environmental programs: Agriculture: $2.6 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Earlier in his political career, Bettencourt served as Republican House Majority Leader, and as the public face of the conservative agenda in the state’s House of Representatives. Once Governor Chris Sununu’s policy director, Bettencourt was recently nominated to serve as the Department’s next Insurance Commissioner.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

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. trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue. million acres.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The funding opportunities listed below are broken down into three categories: Research and Education Local Food (including urban and rural-focused programs) and Nutrition Climate, Conservation, and Energy The Requests for Applications (RFA) in this post are organized by category and then by application date, from earliest deadline to furthest out.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In the American West, funds approved in 2014 for water storage projects in California have not been used and a town in Utah completely runs out of water. In New Orleans, the Sewerage and Water Board is asking residents to conserve water to prevent sewage backups. After drought hit the state of California in 2014, voters approved a $7.5

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

We felt it was necessary because [the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources] plays an important role in ensuring our water resources or resources are protected, and that there’s a sustainable water supply available for future generations.” — Katie Smith, the department’s director of ecological and water resources.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2014, Lein 2018, Zabala, Sandbrook et al. 2014, Lein 2018).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

Woodwell has been associated with PEC since 1991, including roles as staff attorney, director of the western PA office, and as a vice president, before becoming president in 2014. Under Woodwell’s leadership, PEC’s work has touched almost every environmental and conservation issue and spanned the entire geographic reach of the Commonwealth.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

The PA Groundwater Symposium has been a forum for groundwater education and networking since 2014. The Symposium is sponsored by Penn State Extension, the Department of Environmental Protection, the PA Water Resources Research Center , and the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2021

trillion in economic activity, according to a study in 2014. It was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S. It provides some 40 million Americans with a portion of their drinking water and irrigates up to 5.5 million acres.

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HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2022

2021, Martin and Gates 2014, and Uribe et al. Irrigation guide, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA. Agricultural Water Management , 252 , 106898. Martin, C. A., & Gates, T. Uncertainty of canal seepage losses estimated using flowing water balance with acoustic Doppler devices. 210-vi-NEH, Sept.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the weeks since late October, when the province tabled its various proposals, conservation authorities and regional and municipal governments have published reports and statements containing their preliminary evaluation of the effects they are expecting within their jurisdictions. Image courtesy of Conservation Ontario.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2022

On May 4, Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn and Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding joined members of the Chesapeake Bay Commission to plant a streamside forest buffer in Lancaster to improve the water quality of Landis Run, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

On June 17, leaders from seven state agencies highlighted the importance of protecting native species, which are critical to protecting our natural resources, at a stream restoration site at Fish and Boat Commission headquarters. Tom Wolf has proclaimed the first Pennsylvania Native Species Day. Pennsylvania has 2.2

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On November 22, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources invited vendors to participate in an open forum discussion on December 16 to determine the most cost-effective and successful way to operate a four-season recreation center at Denton Hill State Park in Potter County. “We

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Michigan Constitution, ratified in 1963, states that “ the natural resources of the state are hereby declared to be of paramount public concern in the interest of the health, safety and general welfare of the people. The statute outlaws conduct that is “likely to pollute, impair, or destroy” natural resources and the environment.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Thank you one and all for your conservation leadership! The diversity, creativity and just the sheer number of projects and programs is truly amazing! This kind of leadership deserves our respect and the support by state lawmakers. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism!

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

This year we are putting more money on the table for attractive and productive landscapes and communities, clean water, and access to outdoor recreation with the largest investment in conservation and environmental programs in decades. Cindy Adams Dunn is Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Environmentalists have successfully advocated for low fixed charges on the basis of conservation. The idea is that a volumetric rate based on marginal costs may be more economically efficient, but could create a price signal too weak to incentivize conservation, another important goal. But this principle isn’t new.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

However, the 2018 Farm Bill authorizes $867 billion over 10 years across 11 different titles covering an array of USDA programs with important environmental consequences, including the commodity programs, rural infrastructure and economic development, trade, conservation, energy, horticulture, forestry, and crop insurance. smaller programs.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 22, 2023

While the main focus of the fly-in was conservation and crop insurance programs, farmers and advocates also spoke about the importance of urban agriculture, organic farming, local and regional food systems, and climate challenges. We applied along with many others, and we actually got an EQIP contract.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Both say the money has led to benefits for the public and conservation. The debate over benefits and drawbacks won’t end soon, especially as a new state bill aims to lift a moratorium on additional leases in forests managed by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The leases have earned the state $1.3

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

2025 is a deadline, not a finish line, and was envisioned in the 2014 Chesapeake Watershed Agreement. The use of technology like satellite imagery can help credit where conservation practices are being implemented across the watershed. Click Here to review the entire report. Pennsylvania's Milestone Commitments CBF used?the

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources bans road dumping oil and gas wastewater for any purpose on its over 6,500 miles of state forest roads. Read more here. DCNR is the largest owner of dirt and gravel roads in the Commonwealth.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bloser: The DGLVR program, administered by the Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, funds projects on local publicly owned roads that seek to not only improve the road, but to reduce the environmental impacts of the road on local waterways.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. Like other conservation programs, Van Wagner offers farmers a financial inducement.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2021

We’re pleased to see youth putting their creativity and enthusiasm toward protecting our state’s vital economic and natural resources,” Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. The Squad plans to partner with county conservation districts and nature preserves.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

2012), as was done with the Florida torreya ( Torreya taxifolia ) in a citizen-initiated conservation effort that garnered quite a bit of controversy in 2008. Finally, assisted long-distance migration is when species are moved far away from their current home (Ste-Marie et al., 2015; Rehfeldt et al., BioScience , 62 (9), 835–842. Jaquish, B.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. This fund supports about $650 million annually in fishery restoration and conservation programs, boating access and infrastructure and fish stocking programs. A bill ( H.R. 3864) from Rep.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That’s because the region’s ongoing groundwater woes are at least two decades in the making, exacerbated in part by the very federal programs meant to conserve water in the area, The Counter has found. This year’s emergency took both residents and officials by surprise, but perhaps it shouldn’t have.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

International Union for the Conservation of Nature holds World Conservation Congress. The House Natural Resources Committee and the House Science Committee passed their portions of the reconciliation bill out of committee Sept. billion for the Civilian Conservation Corps and $2.25 International. 16, 2021 ).

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

utilization, development, and conservation of. all resources. replenishable resources.”. [12]. as trustee of the environment for the present and future generations”; and to “conserve, improve, and protect its natural resources and environment and control water, land, and. of Natural Resources. ,

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