Illinois Project Turns Farmland Into Wetlands
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HENNEPIN, Ill. -- As steam rises from flat fingers of water reflecting an iron-gray sky, Donald Hey climbs to the top of an observation tower to watch a flock of American white pelicans huddled among the reeds. These reclaimed wetlands along the Illinois River, a man-made vista of corn and soybea...
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--Giant machines have been digging phosphate from the soil of Beaufort County for two generations. Now those who run the huge strip mine near the community of Aurora want to expand operations into 2,500 acres of nearby protected wetlands.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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Geoengineering experts reveal plans to tackle global warming with fields of crops that reflect sun's heat
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By William Presecky, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 11--Big Rock Township resident Marvel Davis knew in recent years that her 170-year-old family farm would be sold as open space eventually, free from the threat of development.
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By Elias E. Lopez, The Miami Herald  Feb. 4--The Palmetto Bay Village Council is stepping into the debate over a proposed wetland project at Bill Sadowski Park and Nature Center.
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By Jennifer Kapiolani Saxton, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Dec. 18--EDWARDSVILLE -- Applications for a full-time director at Watershed Nature Center are being taken by the University of Illinois Extension program.
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A 15-year plan would restore salt marshes and mudflats for migrating salmon at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, more than 100 years after the farmland was drained and diked.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing ...
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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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For more than four decades, Rod Arbuthnot has run his farm in a fashion many conservationists love. He uses rotational grazing on his rangeland. Some 41 acres of native grass strips protect water quality on the streams that flow on the farm. Wildlife areas are left for deer, turkey and prairie chickens.
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.
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A HUGE wind farm on Lewis would cause "irreversible damage" to one of the country's most important wetland sites, an environmental group said yesterday.  The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT) is opposing plans for the 181- turbine development.
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The state is providing $200,000 in grants to help eight communities and nonprofit organizations restore damaged wetlands, Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles announced this week.  Plymouth and the Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research are among the recipients.
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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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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 24--A lot has changed in the eight years since farmland lovers battled a plan to build a water pipeline from Louisville to Lexington and the Urban County Council endorsed a Kentucky River solution.
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By Schiff, Roy Benoit, Gaboury  ABSTRACT: The spatial scale and location of land whose development has the strongest influence on aquatic ecosystems must be known to support land use decisions that protect water resources in urbanizing watersheds.