INDEX:
---EDITOR'S NOTE---

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Bush Administration Proposes to Slash CWA Protections
Administration's Draft Wetlands Plan Breaks With DOJ Legal Arguments
National Wetlands Award Nominees Sought
DEQ Expresses Support for Federal Wetland Protection through the Clean
Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003
Corps of Engineers Fails to Protect Georgia Wetlands
Wetlands Pollute, Says Study Okayed By EPA - EPA Biologist Resigns in
Protest

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EPA Publishes New Guidelines for the National Nonpoint Source (NPS)
Bush Administration Attacks Clean Water Safeguards, Sets Dangerous
Precedent With Proposed Oregon Rule
Senate Confirms Leavitt as Bush's EPA Chief
Klamath Basin Restoration Needs To Focus More On Habitat, Say Scientists
Bush Administration Waves Off Scientists Whose Findings Are Inconvenient

---LEGISLATIVE UPDATES---

Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment
Nov. 20 Congressional Staff Briefing On Value Of Small Streams And
Wetlands
GAO Online: Testimony on National Wildlife Refuge Management and Oversight

---STATES NEWS---

LA: One Year Later, 'World's Largest Freshwater Diversion' Is Tangled In
Hitches
Columbia River Environmental, Economic Reviews Under Way
State Bill Threatens Wisconsin's Wetlands and Waterways
Chesapeake: Reports Cloud Picture of Bay's Health
MD: Jug Bay May Join Estuary Program
Land Use In Florida Promotes Crop-Damaging Freezes, Study Suggests
Everglades Cleanup Monitor Ordered
WI: Crandon Mine Project Defeated; Lands Purchased by Tribes
EPA Takes Action To Protect Puerto Rico's Shrinking Wetlands
Loon Lake Man Honored For Wetlands Restoration Work
Dry Run: Great Salt Lake At Near-Record Low Level
TX: NRCS Wetland Restoration "Take Two"
CA: Light Being Shed On Fens - Researchers Finally Focus On The Lush
Sierra Ecosystem
New Mexico Uses New Weapon In Salt Cedar War
FL: Training Available on New Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method

---PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES---

World Wetlands Day Materials Available for Free
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Releases "Birding in the United States"
Report
Restore America's Estuaries Identifies 80 Federal Programs to Fund Habitat
Restoration in 2003
Flow - The Essentials of Environmental Flows
Rehabilitating Nature: a Comparative Review of Legal Mechanisms that
Encourage Wetland Restoration Efforts

---POTPOURRI---

Evaluation of the Use and Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossings

---MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES---
For a rolling calendar of meeting, conferences, and other events visit the ASWM calendar.

EDITOR'S NOTE

Dear friends and colleagues,

Today is a dreary fall/winter day here in upstate NY.  A few weeks ago we  had a lot of rain; if I had the Power it would have rained over southern California instead to help you poor kids out there.  Our thoughts were with you, and still are as you work to recover on from experiencing those tragic fires.

Not much is happening on the home front.  The garlic and Echinacea seeds are still on the kitchen counter awaiting planting, hopefully this weekend will present an opportunity.  We did manage to visit the Big Apple last weekend to see the Rockettes and the Christmas Show.  We packed the car with comfort items and medications to accommodate my sick daughter, freshly diagnosed with bronchitis and an ear infection.  The pessimistic outlook was that, at the very least, we'd spend the weekend away in a hotel room rather than in our home that seems to demand attention at every turn.  However, we achieved our optimistic goal of seeing the show and having dinner, and our daughter is doing better than ever.  Wish I were so resilient!

ASWM has some great stuff happening - not the least of which is a Wetlands and Floodplains: STATE/FEDERAL LEGAL WORKSHOP: Filling the Gaps in State and Federal Programs Through State and Local Actions; Avoiding Takings and Other  Problems to be held on December 2-3, 2003 at the Lowes L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. http://www.aswm.org/calendar/legalworkshop9.pdf. To discuss, please call Jon Kusler at 518-872-1804.

Special thanks to the following contributors: Earle Cummings, California fisherman; Scott Hausmann, WI DNR; Erica Pencak, Environmental Law Institute; Suzanne Bolton, NOAA; Alex Adams, Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Department; and Jon Kusler and Jeanne Christie, ASWM.

Take care - Happy Thanksgiving!

Jennifer Brady-Connor
Editor, Wetland Breaking News

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Bush Administration Proposes to Slash CWA Protections Expose Significant Water Resources to Limitless Pollution, Filling

National Wildlife Federation Press Release November 6, 2003--WASHINGTON, D.C.- A new Bush administration Clean Water Act draft rule released in the  press today shows "a blatant disregard for law and science in favor of a free ride for industry when it comes to protecting America's water resources," according to Julie Sibbing, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) water policy specialist.  The draft rule would remove Clean Water Act
protections from ephemeral and intermittent streams that do not have groundwater as a source. Streams that flow for fewer than six months a year would also lose protection from pollution and filling under the draft rule, as well as the wetlands adjacent to them.

http://www.nwf.org/news/story.cfm?pageId=B1FDF020%2DF6C5%2D4D48%2DD1576035292C089F
The "leaked proposed rule" is posted at:
http://www.nwf.org/nwfwebadmin/binaryVault/def-_waters_of_the_US.pdf


 Administration's Draft Wetlands Plan Breaks With DOJ Legal Arguments

INSIDE EPA Friday, November 7 --Draft Bush administration rule language scaling back federal wetlands jurisdiction breaks sharply with Justice Department (DOJ) views that Congress and the courts have already granted EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers with Clean Water Act (CWA) authority that extends beyond the draft rule's limits. The draft rule language also appears to undermine EPA's position that current law provides the agency with
broad jurisdiction. http://www.aswm.org/wbn/archive/03/031117a.htm.

National Wetlands Award Nominees Sought

Once again it's that time of year to take a look around at your colleagues and nominate someone for the Environmental Law Institute's National Wetland Awards.  Nominations are due December 15, 2003, and there are six new categories: Education and Outreach; Science Research; Conservation and Restoration; Landowner Stewardship; State, Tribal, and Local Program Development; and Wetland Community Leader.  To download the nomination
form, visit http://www.eli.org/nwa/nwaprogram.htm. For more information or questions about the National Wetlands Awards Program, e-mail wetlandsawards@eli.org, or contact Erica Pencak at 202-939-3822.

DEQ Expresses Support for Federal Wetland Protection through the Clean
Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003

MI DEQ news release, 10/16/03.  Department of Environmental Quality Director
Steven E. Chester joins Governor Jennifer M. Granholm in supporting an amendment to the federal Clean Water Act introduced by U.S. Representative John Dingell that adds language to clearly define protected waters under the statute. The Governor noted that regulatory guidance recently issued by the EPA could remove federal protection from an estimated 930,856 acres of wetlands in Michigan that are not connected to lakes or streams. This acreage represents about 17 percent of the state's wetlands, and includes some of the state's most rare types of wetland habitat.

http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3308_3323-78077--M_2003_10,00.html

Corps of Engineers Fails to Protect Georgia Wetlands

Adapted from a National Wildlife Federation - Southern Environmental Law Center press release, 10/20/03.  ATLANTA, GA - The Corps of Engineers' Savannah District is failing to enforce federal Clean Water Act protection for Georgia's wetlands and needlessly jeopardizing the flood control, water quality and wildlife habitat benefits they provide to the state, according
to a new survey report issued by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC).  The survey report released by NWF and SELC reveals three examples where the Corps of Engineers' Savannah District has failed to safeguard wetlands under the Clean Water Act in instances where the water bodies clearly warrant the Act's protection. One particularly worrisome example is a titanium mine in Brantley County. TE Consolidated plans to strip mine titanium within 20 miles of the Okefenokee Swamp, threatening the river ecosystem's water quality, wildlife habitat and botanical resources, as well as its scenic beauty. The report is available online at www.nwf.org in the Newsroom.

Wetlands Pollute, Says Study Okayed By EPA - EPA Biologist Resigns in
Protest

PEER news release, 10/22/03. Washington, DC - "A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency biologist has resigned in protest of his agency's acceptance of a developer-financed study concluding that wetlands discharge more pollutants than they absorb, according to a statement released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). EPA's approval of the study gives developers credit for improving water quality by replacing
natural wetlands with golf courses and other developments . . . "
http://www.peer.org/press/403.html

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NATIONAL UPDATE

EPA Publishes New Guidelines for the National Nonpoint Source (NPS)

EPA news release. EPA has published new guidelines for the National Nonpoint
Source (NPS) Program implemented under section 319 of the Clean Water Act.  These guidelines completely replace all previous NPS grants guidances, guidelines beginning in fiscal year 2004. The guidelines focus approximately one-half of section 319 dollars on the remediation of impaired waters through the development of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), and the development and implementation of watershed-based plans. These guidelines were published in the Federal Register on Oct. 23, 2003 and are posted on
EPA's NPS web site at http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/.

Bush Administration Attacks Clean Water Safeguards, Sets Dangerous Precedent
 With Proposed Oregon Rule

From American Rivers, 10/28/03. Portland, OR -- The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed "Oregon Rule," which would pave the way for federal dams to evade their Clean Water Act obligations, is a trial balloon for a broad national policy that would have devastating consequences for river ecosystems across the country, conservationists warned today. The proposed Oregon Rule would allow federal agencies to petition the EPA to weaken water quality standards that are needed to maintain river conditions that support healthy and thriving fish populations. http://www.americanrivers.org/pressrelease/cleanwater102803.htm

Senate Confirms Leavitt as Bush's EPA Chief

Planet Ark, 10/30/03. WASHINGTON - "Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, whose state environmental record has received both praise and scorn, won U.S. Senate confirmation this week to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. On a bipartisan vote of 88-8, the Senate approved President Bush's nomination of Leavitt to succeed former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman as EPA administrator . . . "
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22704/story.htm

Klamath Basin Restoration Needs To Focus More On Habitat, Say Scientists

10/23/03, By Jeff Barnard, Associated Press. GRANTS PASS, Ore. - "Voluntary
steps to restore habitat, including removing dams, might be more effective in saving Klamath Basin fish than taking water from farmers, says a federal report released this week. The report also says that funneling irrigation water to farmers in 2002 - which decreased Klamath River flows - was not clearly responsible for the deaths of thousands of salmon later that year.
 . . " http://www.enn.com/news/2003-10-23/s_9716.asp  [National Research
Council report]

Bush Administration Waves Off Scientists Whose Findings Are Inconvenient

Daily Grist, 12 Nov 2003. "If you don't like the science, change the scientist -- that seems to be the Bush administration's approach when it comes to environmental research.  Last week, Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson stuck to the pattern by dismissing a long-standing panel of Missouri River scientists whose research had ruffled the feathers of business interests.  In their stead, he's calling up a so-called SWAT team of researchers that will do a quick assessment of river ecology and presumably produce findings much more to industry's liking.  The same sort of string-pulling was behind the recent resignation of a U.S. EPA
scientist in Florida whose findings were jettisoned in favor of research showing that wetlands can produce more pollution than they filter."
http://www.gristmagazine.com/muck/muck111203.asp?source=daily

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LEGISLATIVE UPDATES

Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment

Daily Grist, 11/19/03.  "After many weeks of pork-barrel politics conducted
behind closed doors, Republican negotiators yesterday released a final version of the first big energy bill to emerge from Congress in more than a decade -- and it's a doozy.  The package, which contains loads of subsidies for industry and loads of bad news for the environment, now goes back to the House and Senate for a vote; if the two chambers okay it, President Bush
will enthusiastically sign it into law . . . " http://www.gristmagazine.com/daily/daily111803.asp

Nov. 20 Congressional Staff Briefing On Value Of Small Streams And Wetlands

11/13 e-mail from Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign. The U.S. House Coastal Caucus will host a staff briefing on the ecosystem importance of headwater streams and wetlands.  Two scientists (Judy Meyer, University of Georgia, and Dennis Whigham, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center) will brief staff at 10am on November 20 in room 121 Cannon. Non-Congressional staff are also welcome to attend. The presentation will include discussion of a recently published report prepared by a team of 11 stream and wetland ecologists, led by Dr. Meyer, "Where Rivers are Born: A Scientific Imperative for Defending Small Streams and Wetlands", a project sponsored by the Sierra Club and American Rivers. The report may be accessed at:  http://www.sierraclub.org/cleanwater/reports_factsheets/

GAO Online: Testimony on National Wildlife Refuge Management and Oversight

National Wildlife Refuges:  Improvement Needed in the Management and Oversight of Oil and Gas Activities on Federal Lands, by Barry T. Hill, director, natural resources and environment, before the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans, House Committee on Resources. GAO-04-192T, October 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-04-192T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d04192thigh.pd

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STATES NEWS

LA: One Year Later, 'World's Largest Freshwater Diversion' Is Tangled In
 Hitches

Tuesday, November 18, 2003, By Cain Burdeau, Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS - "One year after it opened with fanfare as the "world's largest freshwater diversion," Davis Pond has only intermittently been turned on to beat back salt water intrusion into Louisiana's dying coast. Since August last year, the $119.6 million structure has operated for about three months at much lower rates than it is capable of . . . "  http://www.enn.com/news/2003-11-18/s_10509.asp

Columbia River Environmental, Economic Reviews Under Way

WA DOE, 11/14/03.  YAKIMA - Efforts are getting under way in earnest to decide whether and how to make additional water withdrawals from the Columbia River. The state Department of Ecology is working on an integrated program to make water-right decisions for the river, while also protecting salmon recovery efforts. This week, the department is asking for comments
on what ought to be considered in an environmental impact statement for the project. A draft economic study also has been produced that indicates a substantial number of jobs could be created by appropriating more water for business and municipal uses. http://www.ecy.wa.gov

State Bill Threatens Wisconsin's Wetlands and Waterways

According to an article from the Madison CAPITAL TIMES, a "Job Creation Act" - intended to streamline state bureaucracy - is threatening Wisconsin's wetlands and waterways.  One source states that the Act would "Allow the removal of up to 1,000 cubic yards of dredge material from a stream or lake - the equivalent of 200 dump trucks - without a permit and with no ability to determine if that material is hazardous or contains PCBs or other known carcinogens." See the complete article online - "DNR chief rips GOP on loosened standards: Cites progress in streamlining" By Anita Weier, November 13, 2003, http://www.madison.com/captimes/news/stories/61180.php.

Chesapeake: Reports Cloud Picture of Bay's Health

By Anita Huslin, Washington Post Staff Writer, Wednesday, November 12, 2003; Page B01. "So how exactly is the Chesapeake Bay these days? That depends on who's answering the question. Yesterday, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation released its sixth annual state-of-the-bay report, a glossy affair with images of industrial chimneys belching smoke, a sewage pipe spewing waste and a farmer standing in a field -- all topped with a headline that declares: 'The Bay's Health Remains Dangerously Out of Balance and Is Getting Worse.' . . . "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28100-2003Nov11.html

MD: Jug Bay May Join Estuary Program

By E.B. FURGURSON III Staff Writer, The Annapolis Capital, 11/10/03. "The county is pushing to include all of the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary in a federal estuary program, providing funding and further protection for the gem along the Patuxent River. The federal designation would allow scientists, educators and park staff to expand the array of activities now concentrated in the sanctuary's core to throughout the 1,250-acre preserve, and attract more nature lovers. An overview of the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve program and the Lothian park's new management plan are due to be presented to the public around the first of the year . "
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2003/11_10-15/CSC

Land Use In Florida Promotes Crop-Damaging Freezes, Study Suggests

11/6/03, by Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press. "Some crop-damaging freezes in south Florida might have been milder or avoided completely if wetlands in those areas hadn't been drained years ago for farming, a new study suggests.  The work emphasizes that land use is one of 'a multitude of ways humans are affecting the climate system,' said Roger Pielke Sr. of Colorado State University, one of the study authors. He and colleague Curtis Marshall report the results in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, along with Louis Steyaert of the U.S. Geological Survey . . . "  http://www.enn.com/news/2003-11-06/s_10159.asp

Everglades Cleanup Monitor Ordered

By Associated Press, Published 10/30/03 St. Petersburg Times. MIAMI - "A federal judge agreed with environmental groups and an Indian tribe Wednesday to appoint an expert to monitor Everglades pollution cleanup, in a defeat for the Bush administrations in Washington and Tallahassee. Government agencies and politically powerful sugar growers vigorously objected to the appointment of a special master to consider whether an 11-year-old
Everglades restoration pact is being violated or will be soon . . . "
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/30/State/Glades_cleanup_monito.shtml

WI: Crandon Mine Project Defeated; Lands Purchased by Tribes

10/28/03.  Northern Wisconsin Resource Group (NWRG) announced the sale of its interest in Nicolet Minerals Company (NMC; aka Crandon Mine) to a consortium of Native American tribes that includes Sokaogon Chippewa of Mole Lake and the Forest County Potawatomi Community (FCPC). The Crandon Mine has been subjected to an extensive and costly regulatory process for more than 25 years.  If the sought permits had been granted, this would have been one of the largest wetland destruction projects in Wisconsin. It is anticipated
that the tribes will not develop the land and will manage it to protect the watershed (and their traditional ricing waters).

EPA Takes Action To Protect Puerto Rico's Shrinking Wetlands

EPA Region 2 news release, 10/24/03. New York, NY - EPA has taken action against three entities in Puerto Rico that have illegally filled wetlands on the island to build houses, roads, condos and an industrial park. Two developers and a mayor have been charged with violating wetlands protections established under the federal Clean Water Act.  EPA is seeking cash
penalties totaling $192,500 for the violations, and has required the developers to make restitution for the ecological loss by creating new wetlands in Puerto Rico. http://www.epa.gov/region2/news/2003/03130.htm

Loon Lake Man Honored For Wetlands Restoration Work

WA DOE news release, 10/23/03. SPOKANE - More than 10 acres of degraded wetlands at Loon Lake are again serving their valuable environmental functions, thanks to a Loon Lake-area man and his family. Ed Haag and his family received the Department of Ecology's (Ecology) Environmental Excellence Award this morning while wetlands experts from Ecology toured
his property. He used much of his own personal funding, labor from his own family members, and a system of barter with a landscaping company.  http://www.ecy.wa.gov

Dry Run: Great Salt Lake At Near-Record Low Level 

By Brandon Griggs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10/23/03. "Near-record low water levels on the Great Salt Lake are causing a rash of problems, from boaters running aground to shrinking bird habitats to scofflaws four-wheeling across the parched lake bed, resource managers and other experts say. Five years of drought have shrunk the lake to its lowest level since the 1960s. Much of Farmington Bay is dry, allowing ATV riders to drive illegally from the Salt Lake Valley across the exposed lake bottom to Antelope Island . . . "
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Oct/10232003/utah/104511.asp

TX: NRCS Wetland Restoration "Take Two"

NRCS This Week, 10/17/03. "NRCS staff in Texas recently participated in an Estuary Live broadcast seen by over 1 million elementary, middle, high school, and college level students across the country. The web-streamed broadcast featured estuary restoration the work that a number of State, local, and Federal agencies are doing to protect Armand Bayou on Galveston
Bay . . . This was the second annual Estuary Live broadcast in which NRCS participated. The whole program can be viewed at http:// www.estuarylive.org."

CA: Light Being Shed On Fens - Researchers Finally Focus On The Lush
Sierra Ecosystem

Sacramento Bee - 10/12/03, By Suzanne Bohan, correspondent. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - "In California mountain ranges, verdant ecosystems called fens are finally getting some respect. In Yosemite Valley, an earthmover this month finished scraping away tons of river sand spread over a fen in the 1920s to create a 1-acre parking lot. And in Lassen Volcanic National Park, water flow diverted decades ago is being restored to a 90-acre fen. In June, the U.S. Forest Service launched its first survey of fens in the state's national forests. And the more scientists such as Forest Service regional botanist Anne Bradley learn about these peat-forming wetlands, the more amazed they are at their prevalence . . . "

New Mexico Uses New Weapon In Salt Cedar War

10/14/03, Associated Press. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - "Salt cedar has invaded waterways throughout the West, and state and federal officials are targeting the thirsty, nonnative species because of dwindling water supplies and the threat of wildfire. They've already tried chain saws, bulldozers, herbicides, and fire. Their latest weapon is a small brown leaf beetle that yearns only for the pink-tipped branches of salt cedar. The beetles have already shown their stuff in Nevada where, in one season, they ate the green off a 400-acre patch of the fast-growing trees . . . "  http://www.enn.com/news/2003-10-14/s_9391.asp

FL: Training Available on New Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method

Adapted from Clark Hull (SWFMD) e-mail.  Pursuant to Rule 62-345, the effective date for the new Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method is February 2, 2004.  This is intended to allow time to provide training to those who desire it prior to the effective date.  The Southwest Florida Management District is planning to provide training to staff and the public, conducted entirely in the "classroom" (no fieldwork will be involved.) If you wish to be included in one of the scheduled training events, please e-mail jody.heiney@swfwmd.state.fl.us for details. http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us

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NEW PUBLICATIONS and RESOURCES

World Wetlands Day Materials Available for Free

Each year Ramsar celebrates World Wetlands Day on February 2.  The theme this year is "From the Mountains to the Sea - Wetlands at Work for us." New materials for 2004 include a poster, a 3-fold leaflet "Working for Wetlands", and a sticker.  To view these materials go to:
http://www.ramsar.org/wwd2004_launch.htm

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Releases "Birding in the United States" Report

USFWS news release, 10/21/03. A new federal economic report found that 46 million birdwatchers across America spent $32 billion in 2001 pursuing one of the Nation's most popular outdoor activities according to a report from the Interior Department's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  The report, Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis, is the first of its kind analyzing data from the 2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. The full report is available on-line at http://federalaid.fws.gov.

Restore America's Estuaries Identifies 80 Federal Programs to Fund Habitat
Restoration in 2003

According to Restore America's Estuaries' latest study, Funding for Habitat Restoration Projects: A Citizen's Guide, 80 federal programs have varying funding levels that could be used for restoration. The funding guide provides a quick, comprehensive and accessible review of the often hidden federal funds that may be used to implement on-the-ground habitat restoration projects. Its design and layout provides users with easy access to critical information about funding sources, eligibility and contact. The guide is available online as a printable PDF document and as an interactive database at http://www.estuaries.org/policyandfunding.php.

Flow - The Essentials of Environmental Flows

Edited by Megan Dyson, Ger Bergkamp & John Scanlon. 2003, IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative. An environmental flow is the water regime provided within a river, wetland or coastal zone to maintain ecosystems and their benefits where there are competing water uses and where flows are regulated. Pioneering efforts in South Africa, Australia and the United States have shown that the process to establish them poses great challenges.  Second in the series of the Water & Nature Initiative, this guide draws extensively on the experiences in these countries to offer hands-on advice and practical guidance on technical issues for this emerging issue on the water resource agenda.  $30.00 USD. http://www.iucn.org/bookstore/

Rehabilitating Nature: a Comparative Review of Legal Mechanisms that Encourage Wetland Restoration Efforts

By Professor Roy Gardner of Stetson University College of Law, this paper outlines the legal aspects of wetland restoration (especially in the Ramsar context.)  This paper is now available on line in a 2.1 MB file and requires Acrobat PDF Reader: http://www.ramsar.org/strp_rest_incentives_gardner.pdf
Catholic University Law Review (Washington, D.C., USA), Vol. 52, no. 3 (spring 2003), pages 573-620.

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POTPOURRI

Evaluation of the Use and Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossings

[from HerpDigest Volume #4 Issue #7] "A National Cooperative Highway Research Program project statement has just been announced:
http://www4.trb.org/trb/crp.nsf/All+Projects/NCHRP+25-27 NCHRP 25-27:
Evaluation of the Use and Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossings. The objective of the project is to develop guidelines for the selection (type),  configuration, location, monitoring, evaluation, and maintenance of wildlife crossings. Funds available: $500,000.  Contract period: 36 months. From: Kathryn (Katie) P. McDermott/Director, Technology Transfer/CTE, NC State University/Box 8601/, Raleigh, NC 27695/(919) 515-8034 phone/(919) 515-8898fax www.itre.ncsu.edu/cte "

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MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES