It’s hard for me to believe, but Peabody Energy has won awards for environmental restoration in my home state, Colorado. The company earned the 2009 “Excellence in Research and Use of New...
For the next 2 years, Earthmovers Unlimited of Kylertown, Pennsylvania, will be working to restore a former coal mining site at the junction of Route 924 and Interstate 81, near Humboldt Industrial...
Swamp School alerted me to this editorial in The Columbian about the Columbia River wetland mitigation bank in Clark County, Washington. Developers will be able to purchase credits from the bank. Why...
Having just seen a headline about “experts” wondering if coral reefs will survive global warming, I am happy to discover that at least 1 group is not waiting to act until all the coral is...
Longleaf pine is becoming the tree of choice for restoration efforts in the South. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, researchers discovered the longleaf pine withstood damage better than...
Now here’s a whopper of a project: restoring Brazil’s Atlantic forest, which covered 330 million acres when the Portuguese arrived in 1500 but has since been reduced to 7% of that (or...
Metzger Farm, which since the late 1800s has been located at the corner of Lowell and 120th (north of Denver proper), will be restored by the cities of Broomfield and Westminster, Colorado. The 2...
Don’t be fooled by that headline. It’s true that the San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River and the Matilija Dam in Ventura County are slated to be removed sometime in the future. But the...
Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn was 1 of 10 Superfund sites announced March 2 by the Environmental Protection Agency, ending a battle between New York and the federal government over who should clean up...
It’s been 7 years coming (or, perhaps, 80), but in a few years the Guadalupe River will be reconnected to San Francisco Bay, allowing saltwater to flow into the river and kill off some of the...
Well, this is old news from Colorado Senator Michael Bennet (from May 2009), but it enables me to weigh in on the debate over jobs created by the American Restoration and Recovery Act. According to a...
Why? Because a compound in their blood clots when it meets harmful bacteria. According to Nature Conservancy magazine (“Jurassic Beach,” summer 2008), “Many countries, including the...
According to “Long Time Gone,” an article in the summer 2008 issue of Nature Conservancy, the nonprofit has introduced ferrets on its preserves in Kansas, South Dakota and Mexico...
The Mortenson Ranch, in central South Dakota, used to be a barren place. The trees that dotted the land and filled draws had been cut down or killed by drought in the 1930s and too much grazing since...
I was watching Birding Adventures the other night and learned about the Wakodahatchee Wetlands and Green Cay Wetlands in Palm Beach County, Florida. Both are constructed wetlands (50 acres of unused...
I’ve been reading about froggy problems for years now: how researchers find frogs and other amphibians with extra legs or gender problems. How they find ponds and rivers full of dead frogs. How...
Via Sierra magazine (September-October 2009) comes an article about an innovative way to deal with flooding and “wastewater.” If you go to the Brown Danos website, you’ll find lots...
Now here’s a step in the right direction, a proposal to reforest about 10 percent of the Appalachian areas that have been damaged by mountaintop mining. According to George Fenwick in the...