Sentences with phrase «from land conservation»

The state's Business Council is also pleased with the increased environmental funding, saying it helps in everything from land conservation to pollution prevention.

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After graduating from Middlebury College with a major in geography in 2003, he spent a couple of years working for the Conservation Fund, a nonprofit that helps fund land and water conservatiConservation Fund, a nonprofit that helps fund land and water conservationconservation projects.

They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

The budget calls for more enforcement money for the FDA to step up drug safety rules, more for the EPA to crack down on industrial polluters, additional funds to protect endangered species and land and water conservation and to protect wildlife from climate change.

From year to year I have observed the loss of cropland in places like Niger and Kenya where the demands of relentless commercial cash - cropping with no regard for environmental conservation have left the land bare and, for the foreseeable future, useless for agricultural production.

Taking his cues from the many New England communities that have experimented with the widespread use of easements and conservation land to protect working landscapes, he envisions a new commons taking hold.

5 Land area is extrapolated from data in 2011 Ethical Sourcing Factsheet stating that at least 102,000 ha are set aside for conservation on Starbucks» suppliers farms, and that represents about 23 % of total area verified under CAFE Practices.

LINCOLN, MA — The Sibley Farm Conservation Partnership, consisting of Mass Audubon, Common Ground Land Trust, and the Greater Worcester Land Trust, has announced the purchase of the Sibley and Warner Farms in Spencer from Digital Federal Credit Union (DCU) for $ 2.3 million.

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 property's purchase was made possible by generous donations from many individuals to Mass Audubon's Land Conservation Fund.

It has not been agreeable, however, to the National Park Service, whose approval is necessary because half of the $ 42,000 used to purchase the property came from its Land and Water Conservation Fund in 1974.

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.

Officials with the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco - based, non-profit conservation group, announced they have bought a half - acre lot in the 2700 block of West Fullerton Avenue, across the street from Haas Park.

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.

Starting in summer, 1987, it happened - with the boost of $ 80,000 from an Illinois Department of Conservation Open Space Land Acquisition and Development Grant.

The Conference is expected to draw 500 or more participants from throughout the Bay State's environmental community and has become the nation's largest regional gathering of land conservation advocates.

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.

Trainings will showcase water and land management best practices, successful examples from other communities, and will provide resources, advice, and support for local conservation, restoration, and sustainable development initiatives.

Farmers and forestland owners, community - based and statewide land trusts, and most importantly, Massachusetts residents, will directly benefit from the incentive that encourages landowners to place conservation restrictions on their land to protect important natural, scenic, and historic resources.

Accreditation provides Mass Audubon the benefit of an unbiased outside assessment from other land conservation professionals as the organization seeks to maintain its standard of excellence.

The town of Princeton, with help from a Local Acquisitions for Natural Diversity grant from the state, purchased a conservation restriction on this land to contribute to the property's protection.

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.

After retiring from Westchester County, Mr. Baker joined the Westchester Land Trust as Land Conservation Projects Manager.

An infusion of fresh genes from imported Texan pumas in the 1990s helped, and conservation groups continue to add protected land to the panther's preferred territory.

Yesterday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced changes in CRP rules to allow drought - stricken farmers to use harvested hay from expiring conservation land.

In the 1950s, when the Soil Conservation Service (now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service) began defining tolerable rates of soil erosion from agricultural land, hardly any data on rates of soil production were available.

Ecological restoration has worked wonders in Nepal's Terai Arc, where monsoonal lands are recovering from intensive human use as people are persuaded to manage forests for conservation and supplement their income with ecotourism and sustainable native crops.

They say that under the terms of the swap, organised by the Bolivian government and Conservation International from Washington DC, their rights to forest lands were taken away.

Mortelliti, who holds degrees from the La Sapienza (University of Rome), is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Habitat Conservation at the University of Maine, where his lab's research is focused on the impact of land - use change on vertebrate species (mammals and birds).

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

Over protests from conservation and citizen groups, on August 14 the BLM auctioned off energy leases for all of the remaining public land on the Roan encompassing 54,631 acres (221 square kilometers).

Wilson, who would like to see 50 percent of all land in such corridors, cited several corridor projects already underway, including the Yukon to Yellowstone Conservation Initiative, which works to create an interconnected stretch of habitat in the United States and Canada, and a Gulf Coast corridor from Louisiana to Florida.

Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of conservation science.

Titled «Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation,» the study analyzed more than 156 million acres of land stretching from Virginia to Maine and into adjacent portions of Canada.

Populations of the world's tallest land creature fell to about 98,000 from an estimated 152,000 - 163,000 in 1985, according to the List compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

«The implications for the global carbon sink are profound,» said Dr Andrew Marshall from the University's Environment Department and Director of Conservation Science at Flamingo Land.

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

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.

International efforts are currently underway in Antarctica to build long - term monitoring systems for land and coastal organisms from an ecological conservation standpoint.

«Ten samples of ticks tested positive for the Heartland virus, nine of which were collected from the property of one of the patients and one that came from conservation lands nearby,» said Harry M. Savage, PhD, a research entomologist at CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado and the lead author of the paper.

While national data for environmental performance is limited and difficult to quantify, the research team were able to plot investment in two key agri - environment schemes, land «retirement» for conservation and limiting fertiliser use, against national trends for farmland bird populations and emissions from synthetic fertiliser across landmasses including the US, Canada, Australia and Europe.

He has amassed praise from some Western conservation groups in large part because he has repeatedly voted against measures to sell off public lands.

A lot of research, much of it driven by conservation scientists here in Cambridge, shows that this is less effective than simply removing the land from production — «sparing» it for conservation.»

It is part of the district of Bushbuckridge, created in the Apartheid era as a «homeland» for black people displaced from white - owned ranches or land given over to conservation.

Speakers: Linda Deanovic, Facility Manager, Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture; Nann Fangue, Associate Professor and Master Advisor, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology; Kate Scow, Director, Russell Ranch, Professor of Soil Science, Department of Land, Air, Water Resources; Tom Tomich, Director, Agricultural Sustainability Institute, Department of Human Ecology; all from UC Davis

Conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter have been capturing fine art photographs of wildflowers across America's Western public lands — from Death Valley to Colorado's San Juan Mountains — for more than 20 years.

Travel to Kelly Hill Conservation Park and watch as kangaroos emerge from the shelter of the bush land at dusk to graze out on the open pastures.

• Take a walk from Cape Naturaliste to Wyadup on Conservation and Land Management's 11 - mile coastal track.