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Headline	Author	Published	Section
California, here we come Unprecedented land conservation deal	Jason D Scorse	09 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: California, habitat protection, placemaking, public lands, wildlife (all these topics)

This Is the Den, and the Bathroom Is Behind That Tree Stressed by housing slump, developers sell land to conservationists		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 9:31 AM on 09 May 2008 Looking for a bright side to the real-estate crunch? Look no further: Some developers, financially stressed by the housing slump, are selling land to folks who want to conserve it. It's a win-win situation: developers aren't stuck building expensive real estate that no one wants to buy, and conservation groups like the Trust for Public Land a ...
Topics: habitat protection, Nature Conservancy, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

'Orangutans' scale wall, save forest Unilever supports rainforest destruction moratorium	Glenn Hurowitz	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: environmental movement, Greenpeace, habitat protection, Indonesia, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Salmon shutdown One of the West Coast's most iconic species feeling the heat	Miles Grant	03 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, habitat protection, litigation, politics, salmon (all these topics)

Happy Trails National parks will get spruced up		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:25 PM on 25 Apr 2008 The National Park Centennial Initiative has announced its first round of funding for various projects and programs in -- surprise! -- national parks. Seventy-six parks in 38 states will see a total $51 million in federal and privately donated funding. The projects will run the gamut of everything from hiking-shelter improvements to wildlife protection to forest restoration to education. The park-system centennial i ...
Topics: habitat protection, national parks, news (all these topics)

Bushies not wild about wild salmon On the Bush administration's deal for Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead	Guest author	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: dams, endangered species, habitat loss, habitat protection, litigation, politics, salmon (all these topics)

Bikini Toll Beaches strewn with a lot of trash, says report		16 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 16 Apr 2008 Six million pounds of trash were picked up in a one-day global beach cleanup last September, according to a new report from the Ocean Conservancy. In one day, beachcombers covering 33,000 miles of shoreline in 76 countries found an average 182 pounds of trash per mile. That was comprised of 7.2 million items of garbage -- food wrappers, bottles, fishing lines, plastic bags, and more. A full one-third of ...
Topics: habitat protection, news, oceans, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Sworn to Be Wild House gives thumbs-up to conservation program		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:36 PM on 09 Apr 2008 Some 27 million acres of federal land in the U.S. West and Alaska would be formally recognized as conservation-worthy under legislation passed Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The National Landscape Conservation System has been in place since 2000 to "conserve, protect, and restore these nationally significant landscapes," and the House legislation would make the program law. The ...
Topics: habitat protection, legislation, news, politics, public lands, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

A River Runs Through It Grand Canyon flood supported by feds, criticized by park officials		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:08 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Federal flood control managers will let loose a rush of water through the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, which the feds say is necessary to restore sand banks and side pools, and National Park Service officials say is unnecessary, aimed at pleasing hydropower companies, and could irreparably destroy the habitat it's meant to restore. From the Archives ...
Topics: energy, habitat protection, hydropower, National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

Wildlife, Shmildlife USDA head suggests harvesting switchgrass on conservation land		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:25 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Tuesday that it would be a "great idea" to allow farmers to grow and harvest biofuel-bound switchgrass on land currently set aside as wildlife habitat. More than 34 million acres in the U.S. are in the Conservation Reserve Program, which pays landowners to convert cropland to native grasses and keep it largely untouche ...
Topics: biofuels, Department of Agriculture, energy, habitat loss, habitat protection, news (all these topics)

The Missing Lynx Large area proposed as critical habitat for Canada lynx		29 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:49 PM on 29 Feb 2008 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed that 42,753 square miles of the northern U.S. be designated as critical habitat for the Canada lynx. The new area is more than 20 times bigger than a proposal made in 2006, which the agency promised to revisit after it became clear that former USFWS overseer Julie MacDonald's influence trumped scientists' recommendations. Activists generally a ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat protection, news, progress, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

R�servez, S'il Vous Plait Tiny island nation of Kiribati creates world's largest marine reserve		14 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:28 AM on 14 Feb 2008 The tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati has created the world's largest marine reserve, spanning 164,200 square miles (roughly the size of California). In contrast, the islands comprising Kiribati itself total only about 313 square miles, or about four times the size of Washington, D.C. The new Phoenix Islands Protected Area is home to sea turtles, over 120 species ...
Topics: habitat protection, Kiribati, news, oceans (all these topics)

Elk and Their Ilk Elk populations getting out of control in some national parks		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:46 PM on 12 Feb 2008 Forget hungry, hungry hippos -- here come the hungry, hungry elk. Three national parks in Colorado and the Dakotas are awash in antlered gluttons, at some places more than twice what's considered a preferable population. "Willow and aspen stands are declining [and] that deprives other species of habitat they need," says a spokesperson for Colorado's Rocky Mountain National ...
Topics: Colorado, habitat protection, national parks, news, North Dakota, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics)

Yahoo, Yazoo EPA moves to veto wetland-destructive Army Corps project		04 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:58 PM on 04 Feb 2008 The U.S. EPA has moved to block an Army Corps of Engineers flood-control project in the Mississippi Delta, the first time the agency has aimed to veto a Corps project since 1990. The $220 million project would have built the world's largest hydraulic pump, sucking dry enough wetland area to cover New York City in order to protect a sparsely populated area of soybean fields from Yazoo River flo ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, habitat protection, Mississippi, news, politics, progress, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

One Step Forward, Two Missteps Back Conservation work will potentially be undone by climate change		29 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:53 PM on 29 Jan 2008 Habitat preservation is a noble cause -- so it's really too bad that many conservation efforts may end up rendered moot by climate change. For example, restoration of Pacific Northwest salmon runs won't do much good if warming makes streams unlivable; restoring fresh water flow in the Everglades will be somewhat pointless if sea-level rise swamps the wetlands. &quo ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental movement, habitat protection, news (all these topics)

Forest Wisdom The Forest Guild on climate change	Erik Hoffner	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, habitat protection (all these topics)

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like the Police Mexican police conduct anti-logging raid in butterfly habitat		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 07 Dec 2007 Hundreds of Mexican police raided illegal sawmills near a monarch butterfly reserve yesterday in "the largest seizure of illegally logged wood in the country's history," according to the attorney general's office. Millions of butterflies travel some 2,500 miles each winter to spend the cold season in the Mexican forest, where illegal logging is r ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics)

Mountie Fair Canada sets aside huge tracts of land for protection		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 4:53 PM on 26 Nov 2007 The Canadian government plans to set aside 25.5 million acres of northern boreal forest and tundra as protected land, off-limits from resource development. The total acreage (hectarage?) of the protected area is 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park -- or, in Canadian, about twice the size of Nova Scotia and more than five times the size of Prince Edward Island. sources:� Canadian Press, ...
Topics: Canada, habitat protection, news, progress (all these topics)

Winging It Mexico boosts funding for butterfly protection		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 26 Nov 2007 Millions of butterflies clapped their tiny wings as Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday announced a plan to curb logging and protect habitat for migrating monarchs. Mexico has already boosted anti-logging efforts, resulting in a 48 percent drop in illegal tree-chopping in the last year. Calderon hopes the additional funding to be put toward the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve will boo ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, wildlife (all these topics)

The Other Healthy Forests Initiative Community-based forestry takes root in the U.S.	Meg Daly	03 Sep 2003	Main Dish
Can a "forest economy" be good for the forest? A new movement known as community-based forestry says yes. Also referred to as community forestry, CBF is dramatically different from most forest management practiced in the U.S., and increasing numbers of environmentalists are championing the cause. Land of the trees, and home of the brave. Photo: NPS. As the name implies, CBF enco ...
Topics: habitat protection, national forests, placemaking (all these topics)

Red Hot Chili Peppers A new preserve keeps chilis from going up in smoke	Amy E. Nevala	07 Jul 1999	Main Dish
A tongue-smoking red chili may stay out of hot water thanks to a new botanical area in Arizona, the first in the U.S. set aside to protect wild relatives of domesticated crops. The botanical area -- a four-square-mile parcel in the Coronado National Forest, 50 miles south of Tucson -- was officially dedicated to the preservation of the red-hot chiltepine last month. Photo by Jes�s Garc�a. For mo ...
Topics: Arizona, food, habitat protection (all these topics)

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