Posted in freshwater on May 17th, 2012
Decreased snowpack in the Rocky Mountains may compound problems for Colorado, Arizona, California, and other Western states. On April 10th, 61 percent of the lower 48 states were listed by the U.S. Drought Monitor to be in abnormally dry or drought conditions. To assess the vulnerabilities of the watershed and consider how water supply and [...]
Posted in restoration on Apr 24th, 2012
A “Johnny Willowseed” Approach In 1995, Trout Headwaters, Inc (THI) was founded to provide service to private, non-profit, and government clients. At a time when fewer than a handful of entities across the U.S. were providing stream, river or wetland restoration services, the company quickly became a recognized leader in “soft” biostabilization and riparian restoration [...]
Posted in fish on Jan 30th, 2012
Restoring endangered steelhead trout to the Southern California rivers and streams where they once swam in abundance will cost as much as $2.1 billion over the next 100 years, according to a new federal report. The 600-page Southern California Steelhead Recovery Plan, recently released by the National Marine Fisheries, warns that along with a financial [...]
Posted in fish on Sep 1st, 2011
Predictions note that trout habitat likely will be slashed in half due to climate change by the year 2080, according to a recent study, with native cutthroat trout expected to see the most severe decline. The study, published in the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also predicts a decline in introduced [...]
Posted in planning on May 16th, 2011
Creating the future Patagonia National Park in Chile Conservacion Patagonica is a dynamic community of people who share one thing: a commitment to the wild future of Patagonia. About fifty people work full-time on the creation of Patagonia National Park, but many thousands more throughout the world have joined in this project in one form [...]
Posted in fish on May 1st, 2011
The recent release of a report on the status of fish habitats in the United States titled THROUGH A FISH’S EYE: The Status of Fish Habitats In The United States 2010 is accompanied by the release of a map viewer, which offers the maps that are in the report in greater detail. The National Fish [...]
Posted in fish on Apr 29th, 2011
The National Fish Habitat Board ( www.fishhabitat.org ) has released a status of fish habitats in the United States report titled THROUGH A FISH’S EYE: The Status of Fish Habitats In The United States 2010. The first of its kind to synthesize information on a national level, the goal of the national assessment was to estimate [...]
Posted in sustainability on Apr 15th, 2011
Conservation banks are permanently protected lands with high natural resource values. These lands are both conserved and permanently managed for species that are endangered, threatened, candidates for listing, or other species-at-risk. According to the National Mitigation Banking Association (NMBA), Conservation banks function to offset unavoidable adverse impacts to these species that occurred elsewhere. “In exchange [...]
Posted in planning on Jul 19th, 2010
Why buy credits in a mitigation bank instead of creating a wetland or restoring a stream on- or off-site? Purchasing credits gives the developer these major benefits: Save time and money: The developer, after following the 404(B)(1) Guidelines to try to avoid or minimize wetland or stream impacts, then does not have to go through [...]
Posted in planning on Mar 31st, 2010
NOAA – National Weather Service – WaterCurrent · By State/County: National Hydrologic Assessment of Spring Flooding Risk as of 3/12/2010 now available. Additional Resources available include National Significant River Flood Outlook for the United States. See http://www.weather.gov/ahps/ Tweet
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