Ind. makes progress in fighting hydrilla
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Environmental officials believe progress is being made against an invasive weed found in a northern Indiana, though more chemicals will likely need to be applied.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 1--El Dorado Irrigation District officials expressed interest in partnering with El Dorado County to develop a regional habitat conservation plan that could streamline the environmental review process for both agencies.
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By Dick Cook, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 25--With drought continuing across much of Georgia, officials are  getting increasingly strict about enforcing the state's water use  restrictions.
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By Brian McDearmon, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Jun. 22--With more people come more showers, more loads of laundry, more  lawns to water.
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Floridaâs season of âsturgeon strikesâ â collisions between the leaping fish and hapless boaters is already under way.
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By Peter B. Lord  Laura A. Meyerson, an assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resources at the University of Rhode Island, will give a talk  Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on the invasive phragmites plants that line much of Rhode Island's shoreline.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 14--A proposed long-term strategy for managing and developing water resources in El Dorado County may not be perfect, but a spokesman for a water advocacy group says it's time the plan, six years in the making, was adopted.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho,  Sep. 15--HAILEY --Forget the pole and worms.   When the Idaho Fish and Game Department goes angling, it brings the electricity --300 volts, in fact.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 17--When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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By AP  LEWISTON, Idaho   Officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game plan to partially drain and then poison Deer Creek Reservoir next month because of a nonnative fish that threatens the trout fishery.
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By Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y.  Jun. 20--UNITED NATIONS -- Of the dozens of recommendations submitted to  the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May, one of the most  universal and compelling was a call for the protection of water.
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By Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 25--LOS BANOS -- A farm road runs through the shriveled San Joaquin River where chinook salmon are supposed to swim in seven years.
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By JUSTIN CARINCI  A path winds past ponds and under cone-bearing and leafy trees at Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center.  On a bleak April day, a fish hatchery squeezed between state Highway 14 and Southeast Evergreen Highway seems an unlikely place for natural beauty.
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By Chris De Benedetti  FREMONT -- Environmental groups are disputing it, but state officials say a potential crisis involving endangered fish at the Delta pumps, which threatened the Tri-City area water supply, has been averted.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  May 24--Sarasota County's Environmentally Sensitive Lands Protection Program purchased a .22-acre creekside property.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 24--SANDPOINT, Idaho -- The war on predators is being waged on a distinctly different front here.