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Slammed by heavy winds and bearing precious amphibian cargo, the helicopter heaved skyward from a remote mountain ranch on the Baja California Peninsula. 
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The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. Not only do sections of it look bad, but they sound bad too. And this, it turns out, may be yet another barrier to reef recovery. In a new study published this week, a team led by Tim Gordon, PhD candidate in a marine biology from the University of Exeter, recorded sounds made by coral reefs before and after they were damaged and tested how the sounds changed the response of fish searching for a reef to settle on.
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WASHINGTON -- USDA is making available up to $40 million in technical and financial assistance to help eligible conservation partners voluntarily protect, restore and enhanc
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Federal biologists on Tuesday take steps to release hundreds of yellow-legged frog tadpoles reared at the Los Angeles Zoo in carefully selected historic haunts in the San Gabriel Mountains suitable for one of the rarest amphibians in the world.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
It is funny how the USGS and Fish and Wildlife were so anti captive breeding of amphibians for so many years...until they wanted to do it.
This is a great effort and long overdue. Good luck to all these little herps!
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Over the course of a few days in early January, several dozen young conservation workers from Alabama and four other states gathered at Camp Beckwith in Baldwin County for training. But the goal wasn't just to train a handful of people in the labor of forestry and coastal cleanup. It was something considerably bigger.
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A plan for turning a former rail yard next to the Los Angeles River into park space, wetlands and other amenities could cost more than $252 million, city analysts said in a report Thursday.
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Download a PDF of "Effective Monitoring to Evaluate Ecological Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico" by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for free. Description: Gulf Coast communities and natural resources suffered extensive direct and indirect damage as a result of the largest accidental oil spill in US history, referred to as the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. Notably, natural resources affected by this major spill include wetlands, coastal beaches and barrier islands, coastal and marine wildlife, seagrass beds, oyster reefs, commercial fisheries, deep benthos, and coral reefs, among other habitats and species. Losses include an estimated 20% reduction in commercial fishery landings across the Gulf of Mexico and damage to as much as 1,100 linear miles of coastal salt marsh wetlands.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The National Academy of Sciences Committee on Effective Approaches for Monitoring and Assessing Gulf of Mexico Restoration Activities just issued this report laying out a framework for Gulf Coast restoration efforts in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The restoration process, guided by three major programs, is a $16 billion undertaking. This report focuses on best practices in monitoring, evaluation, and management of the restoration process. The recommendations are centered around promoting unified action among the various restoration programs and projects, standardizing metrics and goals for progression assessment, utilizing existing programs and networks, promoting open and long-term data access, and implementing adaptive management strategies. The full text of the report can be found here (you can register as a guest if you don't want to register fully).
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From
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Given the dual threats of climate change and increased tourism, conservationists are attempting to gather all the data they can before it’s…
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Some $25 billion is headed to the five Gulf states that were devastated in the 2010 BP oil disaster. Just a fraction of the government fines and court settlements have been paid — but not all of it will end up repairing the damaged ecosystem. Louisiana, which suffered the most damage in the spill, has used the fines and settlements to rebuild its coast, one that was already fragile and disappearing. When it took a direct hit from the BP disaster, oil choked off vegetation that is critical to holding together what land is left.
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From
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This e-book records favorite stories about salt marsh secrets that my collaborators and I uncovered while studying southern California coastal wetlands, from the 1970s to date. In 1986, we became the Pacific Estuarine Research Lab.
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How might we use offsets for existing or future impacts to biological diversity via mitigation banks?
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See also: Amrei von Hase, Andrew Cooke, Aristide Andrianarimisa, Rivolala Andriamparany, Vanessa Mass, Robin Mitchell, Kerry ten Kate 2015 Working towards NNL of Biodiversity and Beyond Ambatovy, Madagascar – A Case Study (2014). - Forest Trends, Ambatovy, Wildlife Conservation Society. 59 p.
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This author taught three-day workshop will cover the framework and issues associated with conducting an ecological restoration project.
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3-day class on restoration management and planning in SB this September.
Eco Man's curator insight,
December 6, 2018 9:50 PM
Always commending people for doing their part in restoring our environment to a healthy and robust one.
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"There’s a direct connection between what we’re doing to enhance the environment and what we’re doing to enhance economic opportunity.”
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The report, published Wednesday by the Center for American Progress and Oxfam America, looked at three coastal restoration projects on different coasts in the U.S. and found that, for every $1 invested in coastal restoration projects, $15 in net economic benefits was created. These benefits include improved fish stocks, due to the fact that 75 percent of the U.S.’s most important commercial fish species rely on coastal environments at some point in their life cycle. Download the report: PDFDownload introduction & summary: PDFRead it in your browser: Scribd
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The welcome mat for California sea lions has been rolled out in San Francisco, but is nowhere to be seen in La Jolla and many of the state's fishing ports.
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Freshwater ecosystems are in trouble. For centuries -- and until very recently -- rivers and ecosystems were always managed using history as a reference point. As we move into an era of uncertainty su
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A documentary exploring the past, present, and visions for the future of Taylor Yard
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A big piece of the LA River Restoration puzzle.
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A restoration project in 2006 revived Orange County's wetlands preserve, turning into a favorite nesting ground for migratory birds and a habitat for sea life. But the state fund set aside to keep the preserve thriving is running low on cash.
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Canada's "War in the Woods" ends with a land agreement that could save forests around the world.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Landscape and habitat conservation tends to produce more individuals and more numerous populations of focal members of those ecosystems.
As an aside, we just saw the first phototrap documentation of black bears returning to the Santa Monica Mountains since Grizzlies were extirpated in the 1880s. Same underlying principals, but our colleagues up in Vancouver have more more to work with than those of us on the fringe of urban Los Angeles.
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One of the godfathers of thinking critically about Restoration Ecology, Richard Hobbs (of Hobbs & Norton fame) discusses an issues I have noted over the recent decade: the varied use of terms to describe a system as hobbled.
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The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy awarded the grant to help wrap up the comprehensive study
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The only wolf ever documented in Southern California may have been a victim of mistaken identity nearly a century ago.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is one of my old professors who lives canid DNA. An interesting finding that seems sure to push the range of this wolf subspecies into southern California. Pretty neat and a potentially powerful argument for SoCal wolf reintroductions!
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Startling maps in a new report on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta show the dramatic loss of marshlands that once supported a vast array of wildlife.
cedrick villasenor's curator insight,
November 3, 2014 1:29 PM
Historical accuracy, immensely valuable for a thorough understanding of change in a given location.
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The deep-blue Ten Mile River snakes down from the mountains through redwood forests and coastal wetlands near Fort Bragg before it flows past rolling sand dunes into the sea. "What we are doing is undoing a 100-year legacy of forestry damage," said Jason Pelletier, director of the Nature Conservancy's North and Central Coast regions, as he stood next to the river where it winds over flatlands before emptying out at the fog-shrouded beach at MacKerricher State Park. A significant watershedThe project is important because a third of all the coho along the Mendocino coast breed in the Ten Mile River, which got its name because it was 10 miles north of the mill on the Noyo River in Fort Bragg, where the ancient redwood forests of the Coast Range were turned into lumber. Coho, also known as silver salmon, once swam in huge numbers up North Coast rivers, providing ample food for American Indians and grizzly bears. Detecting ancient wetlandsDan Porter, the North Coast ecologist for the conservancy, said sophisticated airborne laser and light sensing technology called Lidar was used to detect ancient imprints along the river and develop a high-resolution topographic map of the former wetlands. Conservation easementIn June, the Nature Conservancy, with help from the Conservation Fund, the State Coastal Conservancy and Wildlife Conservation Board, paid $3.8 million for a conservation easement on the 872-acre Smith Ranch. The conservancy, in turn, will be able to do wetlands and fish habitat restoration work on 2 miles of the river's south fork. The Hawthorne Timber Co. has been working with Trout Unlimited over the past decade on fisheries restoration at the headwaters, Pelletier said, meaning the entire river from the ocean to the forested mountaintop soon could be returned to a more natural condition that supports a vibrant salmon population. The entire project is being monitored by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which are trying to develop technical standards and protocol for salmon recovery efforts across 300 miles of coastal watershed lands from San Francisco Bay to the Oregon border.
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