Sentences with phrase «from conservation programs»

Dennis and Kemp conclude that much might be gained from coordinated regional management of pesticides for beekeepers and crop producers and from conservation programs that contribute to improving foraging resources for all pollinator species.

Moving forward, Lutter and Dayer will further explore the experiences of landowners in programs to manage young forest in an effort to understand what causes some of them to manage habitat after incentives from conservation programs have ended.

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In addition, USDA helps organic stakeholders access programs that support conservation, provide access to loans and grants, fund organic research and education, and mitigate threats from pests and diseases.

Since then the program has grown to include all things Sustainable from resource conservation to the reduction of food waste.

Although USDA operates these programs, this bill is separate from the farm bill, which authorizes the food stamp program as well as farm and conservation programs.

Proceeds from the event benefit a wide array of Mass Audubon initiatives in addition to its wildlife sanctuaries and programs (which engage a half - million visitors annually), including land conservation, endangered species protection, and renewable energy outreach.

The Chicago Conservation Corps (C3) clubs are organized by teachers who have gone through C3 Club training here at the museum and are now organizing afterschool programs on environmental conservation issues in their schools with suppConservation Corps (C3) clubs are organized by teachers who have gone through C3 Club training here at the museum and are now organizing afterschool programs on environmental conservation issues in their schools with suppconservation issues in their schools with support from C3!

The grant, issued through the state's Conservation 2000 program, enabled the district to acquire the land along Butterfield Creek and adjacent to Spirit Trail Park for $ 216,000 from CorLands, a Chicago - based environmental group.

The funding includes $ 9.7 million from the Open Space Land Acquisition and Development program and $ 685,000 in federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grants.

The grant program began about 25 years ago when the National Park Service began setting aside money from off - shore oil leases and formed the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Mass Audubon's commitment to this innovative digital resource spans the organization's departments, from Ecological Management and Land Conservation to our «Shaping the Future of Your Community» program, which will be conducting a series of MAPPR workshops to help communities use this powerful new tool to identify which parcels are most important to protect, while guiding development to less sensitive locations.

Last week, an additional million - dollar grant was awarded to Mass Audubon, in partnership with the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Program.

Adapted from Mass Audubon Joppa Flats» successful Birder's Certificate Program and International Intern Program, the Certificate Program in Bird Ecology educates Latin American naturalist guides and teachers about the fundamentals of ornithology, leadership skills (especially for leading birders from North America), and bird conservation.

Joppa Flats launches Certificate Program in Bird Ecology in Belize to educate naturalist guides and teachers about the fundamentals of ornithology, leadership skills (especially for leading birders from North America), and bird conservation.

Joppa Flats begins the International Intern Program, in which interns from Latin America and elsewhere come to Newburyport, Massachusetts to learn about North American birds, participate in best - practice models of bird conservation and education, master conversational English, and strengthen Joppa Flats» relationship with international conservation organizations.

Implementation of invasive shrub and vine control has been accomplished on a number of Mass Audubon sanctuaries with the assistance of funding support from the Natural Resources Conservation Service Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program and Environmental Quality Incentives Program, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, and the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife Landowner Incentive Program.

2014 was a big year for iSeahorse, the citizen science program for seahorse conservation created by Project Seahorse with support from Shedd Aquarium.

Lawrence Seaway Flood Relief and Recovery Grant Program is a giant step in helping people rebuild, it is critical that we hear from stakeholders and regulatory bodies to understand what happened, why it happened and what steps we need to take to make sure it never happens again,» said Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chairman Tom O'Mara.

The grants are funded through the Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program, and the projects will support the preservation of farmland for agricultural use and protect it from degradation through the use of perpetual conservation easements.

Sharon Frost, a soil district technician for the Suffolk County Soil and Water Conservation Service, said one new, 1,000 - gallon tank costs about $ 16,000 and about 75 percent of the cost was paid through the agricultural fuel tank replacement grant program, which receives funding from the state.

A n earlier skit that mockingly highlighted a new ficticious Department of Environmental Conservation program for «catch and release» of unqualified lesbians «back into the wilds of Vermont» drew laughter from the progressive and her crew.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal... Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 3 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $ 30 (about $ 547 in 2015) a month ($ 25 of which had to be sent home to their families).

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

A large portion of the permanent conservation funding for the New York portion will come from the U.S Forest Service's Forest Legacy Program through the Land and Water Conserconservation funding for the New York portion will come from the U.S Forest Service's Forest Legacy Program through the Land and Water ConservationConservation Fund.

This website is updated with support from the Hudson River Estuary Program, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, with support from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund, in cooperation with the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.

A $ 30 million - grant program for communities and businesses in New York recovering from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee is now accepting grant applications, Empire State Development and the Department of Environmental Conservation announced this week.

For Aguilar, who learned about the program from a professor, «I thought it would be a really great way to practice scientific communication and talk about conservation.»

Staving off this rainforest destruction — and subsequent revival of forestlands — through conservation efforts like the United Nations» Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program would be a big win for U.S. farmers, ranchers and loggers, according to the report.

«More than 2,000 threatened species rely on successful reproduction through captive breeding programs for conservation alone,» said Dr Grueber, from the University of Sydney's School of Life and Environmental Sciences and San Diego Zoo Global.

According to lead author Seth Lutter, a master's student in fish and wildlife conservation, the goal of the research was to understand how effective these habitat programs are from a social perspective.

To reduce those damages, the Wildlife Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a program to reduce coyote numbers, an effort that has drawn criticism from conservation groups.

In its $ 44 billion request for supplemental appropriations to respond to this year's storms and wildfires, the administration proposed to eliminate all $ 212 million in funding for improvements to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) buildings and facilities, as well as $ 1.4 billion from various conservation programs.

Other USDA - related offsets in the hurricane relief request include $ 230 million from the Conservation Stewardship Program, which is widely used by farmers and other landowners, and $ 551 million from potential future agreements under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).

As rewilding has entered the mainstream, increasingly accepted by international organizations, it has had to negotiate an uneasy expansion from a scientifically based conservation method into an ambitious social program.

The Trump administration would pay for hurricane relief in part by cutting conservation and research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-- an idea that's running into a roadblock from advocates for those programs.

Jack Kittinger explains why he took the giant leap away from academic research to become the director of a conservation program

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

He runs various programs related to the conservation of primarily migratory birds from the U.S. and Canada that go to Latin America where they winter and breed.

But while a decade - long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.

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«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.

«The Mexican gray wolf recovery program has been hamstrung from the start, and this new management rule doesn't go nearly far enough to fix the problem,» said Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, in a press release.

To reach their conclusion, the researchers looked at a grassland experiment in Minnesota as well as lands converted from crops to grasslands through the U.S. government's Conservation Reserve Program.

Resolve to commit resources for its implementation, including mobilization of financial and technical support from the international community, and welcome and sincerely appreciate the pledges to support the Program made during the Global Snow Leopard Conservation Forum.

The rising cost of fighting fires in this age of climate change is increasingly taking money away from forest conservation programs.

The Conservation Reserve Program gave favorable rates to Montana producers, leading many to remove acres from wheat production and move them into CRP.

The Organization for Tropical Studies is a consortium of 63 universities and research institutions from the U.S., Latin America, and Australia that conducts graduate and undergraduate education, facilitates research, participates in tropical forest conservation, maintains three biological stations in Costa Rica, and conducts environmental education programs.

Mauritius has pioneered innovative hybrid programs of in situ and ex situ conservation recovery, exemplified by the Mauritius Kestrel recovery; the population has grown from a single female and 3 males in 1974 to over 400 individuals today.

The relative decline in winter wheat acreage from 1987 - 2000 was probably driven more by the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) than by direct climate effects.

Reefs also protect shorelines from damaging storm waters and prevent erosion; they are the rainforests of the sea that provide a home for one million species; and they are «the medicine cabinets of the 21st century» according to NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program, providing new sources of medicine to treat cancer, HIV, heart disease, arthritis and other diseases.