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Feds spent $700 million on habitat restoration in Columbia River Basin
2015-06-21 21:04:48| Energy - Topix.net
Three federal agencies - the Bonneville Power Administration, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - provide funding and technical assistance to states, tribes, local watershed groups, conservation agencies and other local entities to develop, build and manage habitat restoration projects in the Columbia River Basin. On average, the federal agencies spend more than $100 million annually on salmon and steelhead habitat protection and improvement.
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Proposed floodplain restoration reduces flood risk and restores salmon habitat
2015-06-19 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Salmon are severely impacted by the loss of floodplain habitats throughout the West Coast. In few places is this more pronounced than in Oregon's Tillamook Bay, where nearly 90 percent of estuaries' tidal wetlands have been lost to development -- threatening the survival of federally-protected coho salmon and the safety of the local community. Now, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, NOAA Fisheries, and others have come together to reduce flood risk, increase resiliency of the ecosystem, and...
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Backyard Habitat Certification Program
2015-06-17 17:15:57| PortlandOnline
Teach your neighbors and friends about backyard habitats and help them certify their backyards
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U.S. to Limit Petroleum Drilling on Habitat of Greater Sage Grouse
2015-05-29 14:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration, aiming to keep a finicky, chickenlike bird called the greater sage grouse off the endangered species list, moved on Thursday to limit petroleum drilling and other activities on some of its wide-ranging habitat in the American West. The move which includes a collection of 14 land-management plans across 10 states stems from a determination in 2010 by the federal Fish and Wildlife Service that the bird, a potent symbol of the West known for its flamboyant courtship strut,...
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Many Wind Turbines Being Installed Critical Bird Habitat, Group Says
2015-05-20 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: More than 30,000 wind turbines in the U.S. have been installed in areas critical to the survival of federally protected birds and an additional 50,000 turbines are planned for similar areas, according to the advocacy group American Bird Conservancy (ABC). Those figures include 24,000 turbines in the migration corridor of the rare whooping crane and nearly 3,000 turbines in breeding strongholds for greater sage grouse, a species that has already declined by up to 80 percent in recent decades due to...
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