Sentences with phrase «conservation service activities»

This year, you'll travel to sites we're working to conserve, where you'll participate in citizen scientist research, conservation service activities, or even go on an overseas adventure.

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Jeff Collins is Director of Mass Audubon's Ecological Management Department, coordinating habitat management planning and activities on our wildlife sanctuaries as well as assisting conservation partners through our Ecological Extension Service.

Losey and his colleague Mace Vaughan of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation undertook the task of estimating the monetary value of insect activity in the U.S. Confining themselves to four activities that could be rigorously calculated — processing cattle dung, controlling pests, pollinating plants and serving as food for wildlife — the scientists derived conservative figures for the value of these services.

(2) Providing loans, grants, or predevelopment assistance to eligible community development organizations or qualified youth service and conservation corps to carry out energy efficiency improvements that comply with the energy efficiency standards under section 284 (a) of this subtitle, resource conservation and reuse, and effective use of existing infrastructure in affordable housing and economic development activities in low - income communities.

Soil Education — USDA - NRCS (Natural Resource Conservation Service) The USDA - NRCS soils education home site for much information and activities about soil.

While Mr. Kempthorne and Dale Hall, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said Wednesday that they saw no separate risk to polar bears from oil and gas activity, the latest assessment of the species for the International Conservation Union, by a group of experts including Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, did include such activity in a list of threats, including toxic contaminants, shipping and recreational viewing.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to allocate specified percentages of amounts made available each year under this subpart for various activities and programs of the Department of the Interior, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Forest Service, the Department of Commerce, EPA, and the Corps of Engineers.

(Sec. 298) Requires the Secretary of HUD to make grants to nonprofit organizations to: (1) train, educate, and advise eligible community development organizations or qualified youth service and conservation corps in improving energy efficiency, resource conservation and reuse, design strategies to maximize energy efficiency, installing or constructing renewable energy improvements, and effective use of existing infrastructure in affordable housing and economic development activities in low - income communities; and (2) implement energy efficiency improvements, resource conservation and reuse, and effective use of existing infrastructure in affordable housing and economic development activities in low - income communities.

(2) Providing loans, grants, or predevelopment assistance to eligible community development organizations or qualified youth service and conservation corps to carry out energy efficiency improvements that comply with the energy efficiency standards under section 284 (a) of this subtitle, resource conservation and reuse, and effective use of existing infrastructure in affordable housing and economic development activities in low - income communities.

A number of factors contribute to these poor predictions, including the global financial crisis inducing a reduction in business activity, the Australian economy's continued switch from industrial to service sector, the promotion of energy conservation, and particularly mild weather reducing the requirement for air conditioning.

In - service caregivers on home exercises, therapeutic activities, energy conservation tips, home simplification techniques and safe performance of functional transfers and assisting patient with ADL's / IADL's.

VOLUNTEER WORK • Performed conservation activities for Green Peace and WWF • Coached cricket at the Pills Orphanage • Performed voluntary services for the Pills Hospital

VOLUNTEER WORK • Worked as a volunteer at the college accounting office during two summers • Volunteered services for the Green Club • Active member of Lead America and WWF for their conservation activities