Monthly Archives: February 2012

Salamanders Learn to Live With Pollution By Felicity Barringer – Green – February 27, 2012 Amphibians, and those who love them, was the subject of a recent article by our colleague Kim Severson, who noted that Mississippians are joining the legions … Continue reading

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ASFPM agrees: Some gulf oil spill fines should go to gulf restoration By Elizabeth Skree – Environmental Defense Fund Blog – February 27, 2012 The Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM), which has chapters in each of the five Gulf Coast states damaged … Continue reading

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Scrub If I grow bitterly, Like a gnarled and stunted tree, Bearing harshly of my youth Puckered fruit that sears the mouth; If I make of my drawn boughs An Inhospitable House, Out of which I never pry Towards the … Continue reading

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Wild, wild wetlands By Wendee Holtcamp – Adventures in Climate Change – February 11, 2012 The moon is full, the night is warm, and I’m sitting in the high seat of an airboat, like a queen on a wetland wildlife … Continue reading

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New international plan balances lake and wetland water Mixed Waters – February 19, 2012 When the International Joint Comimssion, a group founded to manage shared U.S. and Canadian waters, approved a final regulation plan for Lake Ontario’s overflowing water levels … Continue reading

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Every five years the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) reissues the nationwide permits as required by the Clean Water Act.  This week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)  posted the revised and renewed nationwide permits that will be … Continue reading

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Profiles in Resilience: Weston Solutions By Seyi Fayanju – Environmental Defense Fund – February 13, 2012 You won’t find any cypress wetlands in West Chester, Pennsylvania, but you will find a firm, Weston Solutions, that is doing its part to rebuild the … Continue reading

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Methane in the Twilight Zone By Nathan Currier – Huffington Post blog – February 10, 2012 Do you like CSI? I remember the esteemed climate scientist Michael MacCracken once saying that climate researchers need to be like CSI investigators, prying out the … Continue reading

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It is winter and in our family we celebrate the new year with my father’s birthday.  This year was his 80th and we observed it by unearthing stories about his life, compiling them into one document and presenting the final … Continue reading

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State Assumption of Clean Water Act Wetlands Permitting is Subject of Study Requested by HJR 243 in 2012 Va. General Assembly By Lynchburg News & Advance – Virginia Water Central News Grouper – February 7, 2012 http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/ 2012/02/07/state-assumption-of-clean-water-act-wetlands-permitting-is-subject-of-study-requested-by-hjr-243-in-2012-va-general-assembly/

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