Sentences with phrase «land conservation groups»

We offer support to local and national land conservation groups.

But as Tania Lown - Hecht, communications director of the Outdoor Alliance, a nonprofit public lands conservation group, points out, calling the GOP plan a «transfer» is a misnomer.

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A few months before the IRS announcement, Frank Schuler had formed the rival advocacy group Keller had contemplated, calling it the Partnership for Conservation («permanently conserving important lands in the U.S.»).

Afognak is part of a growing movement of land trusts, nonprofit conservation groups and foundations that use carbon verification to support the protection of high - value ecosystems.

Through the leadership and assistance we offer other conservation groups, we affect the conservation of more land than we ever even touch.

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.

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Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton said, «This designation enhances Mass Audubon's reputation as a model for responsible land conservation and stewardship, not only in how we approach our own projects, but as a willing partner with other conservation groups and government agencies.»

Mass Audubon's Bird Conservation team has developed an informative document that outlines best management practices for nesting grassland birds for fields owned by municipalities, land trusts, private landowners, and conservaConservation team has developed an informative document that outlines best management practices for nesting grassland birds for fields owned by municipalities, land trusts, private landowners, and conservationconservation groups.

She has also contributed her expertise and leadership to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100, the Executive Committee of the National Association of Manufacturing's State Associations Group, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's High - Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Advisory Panel; the Foundation for Land and Liberty; Rensselaer County Alternatives to Incarceration, Binghamton University's Alumni Association; and the Susan Odell Taylor school.

Environmental groups fretted over the status of «forever wild» conservation requirements in the constitution for protected lands in the Adirondacks and Catskills.

Ultimately, the group will work with the state Department of Environmental Conservation to determine how to protect the forests while also ensuring the lands will continue to supply timber to local mills that support about 100 jobs

Governments should stop imposing conservation rules on communities and instead involve them in discussions, giving them power over how wildlife protection is carried out on their lands, says Francine Madden of the conservation group Human - Wildlife Conflict Collaboration.

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.

Planted Forests Project On the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, loggers, conservation biologists, and indigenous groups are coming together to test a new model of land use that gives everyone a piece of the pie.

The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Conservation groups allege that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of Energy failed to consider the spirit of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and also violated the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.

How do you monitor a vulnerable shorebird species when its breeding areas are scattered across lands managed by a patchwork of state agencies, federal agencies, and non-profit conservation groups?

But conservation groups took aim at one action in particular: restricting land clearing to curtail runoff in Queensland, which is listed as «on track or underway.»

The research group will further investigate what kind of microclimates the species need for survival.The maps can be used not only for further climate and forest research, but also for conservation and land - use planning.

It does so through regulations spelled out in the Clean Water Act, which include providing tax incentives for selling or giving wetlands to land trusts or other conservation groups, via cooperative efforts with state and local entities, and by acquiring wetlands outright to add acreage to public lands systems.

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).

As environmental groups turned their attention to Zinke, many described the 55 - year - old House Natural Resource Committee member's record on public lands and conservation as a mixed bag.

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

Zinke has called for the full and permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a program created to protect and purchase public lands and embraced by green groups.

(June 17, 2015, The Condor: Ornithological Applications)-- How do you monitor a vulnerable shorebird species when its breeding areas are scattered across lands managed by a patchwork of state agencies, federal agencies, and non-profit conservation groups?

He is involved as a funder and advisor to many local environmental groups, particularly land trusts involved with protecting land through purchase or conservation easement.

The «Gray Whale Ranch» had been zoned only for logging but was considered for further development before the Save - the - Redwoods League, a private conservation group, bought the land in 1996 for $ 13.4 million and transferred it to the State Parks Department.

One important ways PAP raises money for land preservation and conservation on the East End is through its group shows.

The other big ones are groups like the Trust for Public Land, the Wildlife Conservation Society (which includes the Bronx Zoo) and World Wildlife Fund.

Some conservation groups have realized that the slow growth in demand for calories as well as pulp and paper are creating big chances to reserve or protect more land.

So this includes groups like the Nature Conservancy, who accounts for about 20 % of all spending, and basically buys land for conservation.

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Conservation and environmental groups filed a lawsuit today to protect the nation's largest public lands reserve from oil and gas industrialization.

On September 30, 2010, a coalition of Native American and conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast Arizona.

WIND: • Tension in northwest Ohio between bird conservation groups and wind energy supporters «has become a microcosm of the larger, political tug - of - war over valuable land and airspace.»

The groups challenging President Trump's decision are: League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Alaska Wilderness League, Defenders of Wildlife, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands), Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society.

Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana — A coalition of conservation groups today stepped up efforts to safeguard the climate from dirty energy, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of more than 350 million tons of new coal mining in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.

«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.

The lease sales come after Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke removed 17,000 acres of public lands near Yellowstone National Park from the auction block from the March sale in response to intense public pressure from conservation groups and in order to address environmental concerns.

One, «Preservation Groups Find Bargains in Housing Bust,» described how plummeting real estate prices have provided once - in - a-lifetime opportunities for land - conservation organizations to protect irreplaceable natural treasures once destined for sprawling development.

Through a voluntary arrangement, the preservation groups have purchased a conservation easement on 325 acres of the Davenport Farm to ensure that the land remains available for farming and is not developed.

The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C. - based forest conservation group, could boost the efforts of indigenous groups seeking compensation for preserving forest on their lands, effectively paving the way for large - scale indigenous - led conservation of the Amazon rainforest.

In her administrative order, Palin instructed the sub-Cabinet group to develop recommendations on «the opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Alaska sources, including the expanded use of alternative fuels, energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, land use management, and transportation planning.»

The group's land conservation focuses on farmland, open spaces, forests, water resources and wildlife habitats.

While land conservation continues to be the central tenet of the group's mission, it is extremely proud of the great strides made in the areas of public policy, outreach and education.

Equity Trust's Hudson Valley Farm Affordability Program complements and enhances the farmland protection efforts of the many conservation groups working in the Hudson Valley by supporting the use of critical tools for keeping farmers on the land.

donate a percentage of aftertax profits to support local farming groups, land conservation funds or green building associations.

Extending the estimates to cover other species — such as mammals, amphibians and some reptile, fish, plant and invertebrate groups — pushes the estimate to US$ 76.1 billion annually, a relatively small increase because these other species benefit greatly already by the protection of lands targeted for bird conservation efforts.

The 1996 Cape York Peninsula Heads of Agreement agreement [15] between Indigenous people, pastoralists, and conservation groups shows that, at a framework level, native title parties can secure their entitlements and interests in developments on their land.