Salton Sea Ecosystem Restoration Plan Released
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Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman today delivered the Salton Sea  Ecosystem Restoration Preferred Alternative to the Legislature, an  historic strategy to revitalize California's  largest lake.
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By Andrews, Richard N L  In 2005, the United Nations-commissioned Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that over the past 50 years, rapid and extensive change in human ecosystems has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - BP Plc  has submitted a revised plan for preventing and responding to spills at the Prudhoe Bay oil field following pipeline corrosion problems and oil spills earlier this year, a state official said on Monday.
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A new guidebook has been released by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food to help watershed managers and other water education professionals improve the state's natural resources by urging citizens to adopt more natural resource-friendly practices.
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BP Plc  has submitted a  revised plan for preventing and responding to spills at the  Prudhoe Bay oil field following pipeline corrosion problems and  oil spills earlier this year, a state official said on Monday.
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By SAMANTHA YOUNG  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Water dammed for more than half a century will be returned to the San Joaquin River by 2009 in one of the West's largest river restoration projects, according to a settlement filed Wednesday.
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By The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Sep. 17--The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and the N.H. Department of Resources and Economic Development Division of Forests and Lands, with support from the Shoals Marine Laboratory and U.S.
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The governors of Oregon, Washington and California announced an agreement Monday to work together to improve Pacific Ocean health, saying "oceans should be managed on an ecosystem level."
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NISQUALLY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Wash. -- Farmland that was drained and diked more than 100 years ago would turn back into salt marshes and mudflats for migrating salmon under a 15-year plan for the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
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The Bush administration wants to allow ocean farming for shellfish, salmon and saltwater species in federal waters for the first time, hoping to grab a greater share of the $70 billion aquaculture market.
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Water dammed for more than half a century will be returned to the San Joaquin River by 2009 in one of the West's largest river restoration projects, according to a settlement filed Wednesday.
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By Neil Strassman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 6--Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging conservation effort to preserve and restore the Trinity River basin from its North Texas headwaters south to the Gulf of Mexico.
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A proposed change in how the federal government measures water for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta has environmental groups alarmed and California officials concerned about potential harm to wildlife habitat.
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By Bill Hanna and R.A. Dyer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 25--SEA RIM STATE PARK -- A year after Hurricane Rita slammed into Southeast Texas, little has changed at this state park that sits along the Gulf of Mexico.   The path to the beach is overrun with grass.
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The state has stopped splashing roads with saltwater left over from oil production, at least until it gets results from a laboratory checking the wastewater for contamination, officials said Thursday.
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By Ray Grass Deseret Morning News  OGDEN BAY -- Flooding along the shores of the Great Salt Lake in the 1980s wiped the wetland canvas clean. Phragmites then appeared to help repaint the wetland picture in flowing acres of waving green stems and golden-brown plumes.