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Dam Shamer		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: dams, energy, European Union, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, Spain, wetlands (all these topics)

Virgin Rebirth		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Virgin Rebirth Meanwhile, wetlands are also a matter of concern in a place that could scarcely be more different from Iraq: the island of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands Indigenous and Endangered Species Act of 1990 specifies that the policy of the territory is to "prevent a net loss of wetlands to the maximum extent possible," but about half of the mangrove wetlands on ...
Topics: land degradation, US Virgin Islands, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

The Ides of Marsh		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
The Ides of Marsh Verdant marshes and wetlands were much of what helped put the "fertile" in the Fertile Crescent, that swath of land between the Tigris and Euphrates that is considered the birthplace of Western civilization. But in the last few decades, those marshes have been all but destroyed by dam-building and civil strife in Iraq. Those marshes that do remain could disappear in a ...
Topics: environmental restoration, health, United Nations, wetlands (all these topics)

Gorging Themselves		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Gorging Themselves China's controversial Three Gorges dam looks like small potatoes next to the country's latest proposed water project, a gargantuan network of dams and canals designed to divert water from the south to thirsty northern cities such as Beijing. The project would cost $60 billion over 50 years (twice as muc ...
Topics: Asia, China, dams, energy, international government agencies, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Af-gone		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Af-gone Afghanistan's most significant wetland area is now almost as dry as a bone, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Satellite imagery shows that 99 percent of the Sistan wetlands, which stretch into Iran, have dried out since 1998. The main source of water to the wetlands, the Helmand River, has been flowing at far below normal levels. Ahmad Yusuf ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Iran, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers Invasive species are wreaking havoc on African wetlands to the tune of billions of dollars per year, according to a new study by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). For example, the water hyacinth, introduced from the Amazon Basin as an ornamental plant, has spread to most of Africa's lakes and rivers, choking out ...
Topics: Africa, lakes, marine life, rivers and watersheds, Texas, wetlands, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Refuge-nix		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Refuge-nix Six GOP senators are throwing a wrench in the Bush administration's plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling. The six -- Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, John McCain of Arizona, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois, and Mike DeWine of Ohio -- announced last week that they will oppose plan ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, rivers and watersheds, wetlands (all these topics)

Borderline Insanity An INS project threatens Southern California lands	Deborah Knight	31 Jan 2003	Main Dish
On a sunny afternoon in Southern California, a Border Patrol agent watched as a man climbed the metal fence that divides the beach between the U.S. and Mexico. When the man dropped onto U.S. sand, the agent yelled, and the man's friends hauled him back over to the other side of the fence. The fence at Border Field State Park. Photo: Deborah Knight. Such is the daily -- and nightly -- cat-and-mous ...
Topics: California, politics, US Immigration and Naturalization Service, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Wet 'n' Not-so-wild		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wet 'n' Not-so-wild New guidelines unveiled by the Bush administration on Friday could spell trouble for 20 million acres of wetlands across the United States. The guidelines were prompted by a 2001 Supreme Court decision that found that isolated, non-navigable ponds and wetlands in Illinois did not merit protec ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental justice, Illinois, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

This Wetland Is My Wetland		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
This Wetland Is My Wetland California is on the verge of unveiling two of the biggest wetland-rehabilitation projects in the history of the Western United States. By the end of the year, officials in Northern California will sign a $135 million agreement to buy and begin restoring salt ponds along the South San Francisco Bay from Cargill, Inc., whose salt-production practices have led to seve ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, San Francisco, wetlands (all these topics)

Viva Las Vegas		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Viva Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nev., the desert-turned-oasis of slot machines, plastic pyramids, and indoor waterfalls, is now undergoing a new kind of metamorphosis: A former 10-mile-long sewage gully is being transformed into a wetlands park that will be one of the largest swaths of locally preserved land in the nation. For 25 years, the Las Vegas "Wash" was an eroded channel draining 150 million gallons ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Nevada, wetlands (all these topics)

Sea Minus		23 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sea Minus It's an ocean of trouble out there -- such were the conclusions of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, which issued an interim report today at the halfway-point of an 18-month study of ocean health and marine resources. So far, the commission has found that about 40,000 acres of coastal wetlands in the U.S. are disappearing annually, threatening the spawning, feeding, and nursery areas of three-quarters of ...
Topics: water bodies and marine life, wetlands (all these topics)

Not So Jolly		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Not So Jolly An Italian ship carrying 400,000 gallons of diesel and fuel oil as well as highly toxic chemicals grounded yesterday just off a park in South Africa that is home to rare birds, fish, turtles, and plants. A fire has been raging on the Jolly Rubino for days, and the ship has come to rest seven miles south of the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park's main estuary. Oil is r ...
Topics: national parks, South Africa, toxics, water bodies and marine life, wetlands (all these topics)

Foster Care		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Foster Care Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster (R) kicked off a campaign to save his state's coastline this week by bagging a $3 million, three-year grant from, of all places, Shell Oil. "America's Wetland: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana" also earned the backing of several major national ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, environmental restoration, erosion, Louisiana, marine life, oceans, wetlands (all these topics)

Putting Their Lives on the Lime		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Putting Their Lives on the Lime Hoping to halt a limestone mining plan that would destroy 15,000 acres of wetlands in the Florida Everglades, environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday. The Corps has issued permits to mine 1.7 billion tons of limestone from Everglades wetlands for roads in so ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental non-government organizations, Florida, land degradation, mining and drilling, Sierra Club, wetlands (all these topics)

The Big Uneasy		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
The Big Uneasy In Louisiana, the sea-level rises caused by global warming aren't the stuff of dry scientific reports; they're already a local reality. Up to 35 square miles of the state's wetlands get a little too wet every year -- they disappear into the Gulf of Mexico. To date, Louisiana has lost an area the size of Rhode Island. Low-lying areas that have suffered years of poor environmental management are ...
Topics: climate, land degradation, Louisiana, wetlands (all these topics)

Flow-rida		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Flow-rida The Bush administration yesterday revised its proposed rules for the $7.8 billion renovation of the Florida Everglades, with environmentalists greeting the changes as imperfect but undeniably better than the last draft. Under the new rules, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District would ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, Florida, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Marsh-a-Marsh-a-Marsh-a		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
Marsh-a-Marsh-a-Marsh-a An agricultural company has agreed to sell 16,500 acres of salt ponds around the San Francisco Bay, paving the way for what could be the nation's biggest wetlands restoration project outside of the Florida Everglades. Cargill Inc., an international agriculture and food company, signed a preliminary agreement yesterday with state and federal governments and private fo ...
Topics: California, land stewardship, San Francisco, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Crane Drain A review of The Birds of Heaven	Elizabeth Grossman	05 Mar 2002	Arts and Minds
What do Nebraska, Ngorongoro, North Korea, Outer Mongolia, England's Norfolk marshes, and the Australian Outback have in common? The crane -- the elegant, long-legged bird that adorns Asian scrolls, appears on bas reliefs at Angkor Wat and in 6,000-year-old Spanish cave paintings, is reproduced in origami and Chinese bronze, and chronicled by Aboriginal, Ainu and Cree storytellers, as well as by Homer, Virgil, Dante, a ...
Topics: wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Send Me the Ivory Bill		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Send Me the Ivory Bill Call it a wild goose chase: A 30-day search through a southern Louisiana swamp was called off yesterday after some of the world's top ornithologists failed to find the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker. The bird, once the largest North American woodpecker with a wingspan of up to 33 inches, has not been seen for certain since shortly after WWII. But three years ago, a forestry student said he saw a mating ...
Topics: Louisiana, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Grants' Tomb?		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Grants' Tomb? The U.S. EPA has awarded more than $2 billion in grants to nonprofit organizations since 1993 through a process that the agency's internal watchdog says is seriously flawed. Many grants were awarded without competitive bids, and some groups may have received preferential treatment. Some of the awards went to organizations that subsequently sued the EPA -- although presumably w ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

All Wet		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
All Wet For almost a decade, developers have been required by federal law to create 1.78 acres of wetlands for every acre they destroy. Sounds great, but a new study by Washington State's Department of Ecology found that only about 13 percent of 24 replacement wetlands in the state are successful. Wetlands-protection rules were established to protect watershed health, provide critical habitat, and reduce danger ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, Washington, wetlands (all these topics)

Danube Blues		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Danube Blues The Danube River in Europe may be blue, but it's not very green -- and its environmental problems are slated to get even worse, the World Wildlife Fund warns in a report being released today. More than 80 percent of the river's wetlands and flood plains have already been destroyed in the name of flood protection, agriculture, p ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Germany, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

A Developer's Wet Dream		15 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Developer's Wet Dream The Bush administration weakened protection for wetlands, streams, and swamps across the U.S. yesterday by making changes to the Clean Water Act, despite the objections of the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The changes, which were proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers and approved by the White House, make it eas ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, politics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

No Comment		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
No Comment Here's the latest bit of unconscionable news from the U.S. Department of the Interior: Interior Secretary Gale Norton failed to submit comments from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service blasting a proposed Army Corps of Engineers plan to relax wetlands protection rules. As a result, the Army Corps will announce its final ver ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, environmental justice, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wetlands (all these topics)

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