Call for Native Planting Scheme to Protect Styx River
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Former forester Ted Waters, pictured, says a stretch of the Styx River must be replanted with native white pine and fenced to stop seepage on neighbouring properties. He is putting together a proposal for Guardians of the Styx to approach the Christchurch City Council for funding.
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By BRYAN CORBIN, Courier & Press Statehouse bureau (317) 631-7405 or corbinb@courierpress.com  Planting new hardwood trees to restore forestland and link disconnected nature preserves in Southwestern Indiana will be funded through a donation announced Tuesday.
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By Meera Pal, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 11--SUNOL -- Using nature's tools of logs and tree roots, local, state and federal agencies have joined efforts to battle streambank erosion along the Arroyo de la Laguna between Pleasanton and Sunol.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 23--GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- A plan for improving habitat for four rare wildlife species in the central Platte River hit a few bumps Friday in the prairie stream's broad, flat valley.
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By EVADNA BARTLETT  Homeowners in an often-soaked Teays Valley subdivision worry that development of adjacent property will worsen their problems.   They laid out their concerns Tuesday before the Putnam County Commission.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct 3 (IPS) - A novel solution has been proposed to block the  building of a controversial dam that sits over a fissure and that  environmentalists say will harm plant and animal life.
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The Timaru Rowing Club's weed problems in Saltwater Creek will not be easily solved.   Environment Canterbury (Ecan) has no statutory obligation to clear the weed unless it becomes a flood issue.
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BELGRADE, Dec 3 (IPS) - The parliament of the tiny republic of Montenegro  began a long awaited debate this week on building a hydropower  plant on the Tara river, one of the most attractive tourist and  nature reserves in former Yugoslavia.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 9--Mint Hill, Stallings and Indian Trail will have to limit development in a watershed that's home to an endangered mussel, a state panel ruled Thursday.
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Â· Thames and Severn rivers set to rise further Â· Battle to protect power supplies
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A leading environmental group called Friday for protection for the great white shark and humphead wrasse coral fish, whose numbers have plunged because of overfishing and China's growing appetite for exotic foods.
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Murchison could have cheaper power if a controversial river hydro scheme capable of supplying 3000 homes goes ahead on nearby Lake Matiri.   New Zealand Energy director David Inch told a fiery community meeting in the town yesterday that the scheme would benefit the community.
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By Backus, Perry  BONNER - Not long after talk first began about restoring the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers, people started stepping forward with a variety of ideas for the future of the site.
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The federal government has finished a plan to try to save an endangered plant that is found only in Tennessee.
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By Mary Beth Lane, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Mar. 1--An agreement limiting the number of trees that can be cleared around natural-gas storage wells in the Mohican-Memorial State Forest has eased some opponents' fears.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 18--Conservationists found an unlikely ally in the fight to save Marks Creek: a home builder.
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By Dominic Adams, The Lima News, Ohio  Sep. 24--OTTAWA -- A comment by an engineer about possibly using water from the Blanchard River to fill an under-construction Leipsic reservoir has Ottawa officials feeling defensive.  John T.